Jody Hattrup

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Wordle

Have you heard of Wordle? Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use …

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Kansas EZ Library Webinars

As you know, all of the “pieces” to 3M Cloud Library are out and OneClickdigital has reached a point of stability.  If you were waiting until things had settled down, here’s your opportunity!   These sessions will instruct you from registration to checkout and transfer of a book to a device.  We will not discuss …

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Find us on Pinterest

Are you on Pinterest and looking for Summer Reading ideas or have several to share?    We’re here to help!  SWKLS has a Pinterest account.  You can find us at http://pinterest.com/swkls/. We also have collaborative boards setup for Summer Reading.  A collaborative board is a shared board that several can pin to.  If you would like …

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Federal Benefit Checks Changing: What Libraries Can Do To Help

Laura DeBaun – NEKLS  – March 23, 2012 The U.S. Department of the Treasury needs your library’s help in getting out the word on changes to Federal Benefit Checks. The Treasury Department’s Go Direct® campaign provides free materials to help you share this important information in your library outlets. For more details or to order …

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Summer Reading Workshop

  This year’s Summer Reading Workshop, Dream Big-Read! will be held at the Dodge City Public Library on Thursday, March 29, 2012.  If you’re looking for ways to put the fun back in your summer and a spring into your programming step for the rest of the year, you don’t want to miss this workshop!  …

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KLA Conference 2012

Taken from email written by Mickey Coalwell Have you registered for KLA Conference in Wichita, April 11-13?  It’s going to be amazing! http://kslibassoc.org/2012Conf/reg.php This year, KLA is proud to present R. DAVID LANKES of Syracuse University as our Opening Keynote speaker. David most recently wowed the crowd at the ALA Midwinter meeting in Dallas. Check out this two-minute video, …

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