Category: Featured

Kansas Snapshot Day: November 11 – 17, 2012

Taken from an email from Candace LeDuc, Communications Coordinator, State Library of Kansas Save the Date:  November 11-17, 2012    What would Kansas be like if there were no libraries?  What valuable services do we provide on a daily basis that simply go unrecognized and unappreciated? The State Library of Kansas needs your help.  We’re taking a snapshot of …

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Kansas EZ Library Training Resources

Below you will find documents used in the Kansas EZ Library trainings.  Please feel free to use these documents to hand out to your patrons.  You are more than welcome to edit them. General Librarian Cheat Sheet (old) Librarian Cheat Sheet (NEW!!  revised 09/06/12) OneClickdigital Instructions (Audios) OneClickdigital Training for Kansas EZ Library (Word Document) OneClickdigital Android App …

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From Analog to Digital Workout Plan

Maribeth Turner from the Central Kansas Library System, created an Analog to Digital Workout Plan to help you increase tech skills.  This is a great way to learn some basic tech skills or even brush up on your tech skills.  More information about the plan are below. This 14-week program will walk you through tutorials, …

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Database Training and Promotional Materials

Are you looking to find out more information about the changes to the State Library of Kansas Databases or looking for material to promote them in your community?  The State Library has a page to help you. Here are some of the resources will find on this page: Subscription Change Information including a list, an archived …

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Own a Kindle?

Do you own a Kindle or have patrons that do and are frustrated that it isn’t compatible with the 3M Cloud Library through the State Library of Kansas?  Please let Amazon know that compatibility with the 3M Cloud Library is important to you by visiting your Kindle’s customer service page and using the “contact us” …

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Need Help Understanding Some of the New Features in Facebook Pages?

                            If your library has a Facebook Page I highly recommend checking out Facebook’s Page course.  Facebook created this course to help with some of the recent changes to Facebook Pages.  The course is all web-based and should take about 30 – 45 minutes …

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Summer Reading Blog

We have heard great stories about what all of you are doing for Summer Reading and can’t wait to see!  Please share your plans, pictures, videos,  fun activities, good eats, etc on the SWKLS Summer Reading Blog.  The blog is located at:  http://swklsreads.mykansaslibrary.org.  You can also get to it by going to www.swkls.org and then going to Resources & Services | Summer Reading | …

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Summer Newsletter

The Summer Newsletter is finished and you should be receiving one in the mail here in the next few days. Here are some of the featured topics in this edition: Information about Rosie Cutrer,  our Summer Reading storyteller How one library partnered with the community to make READ posters What is happening at libraries across …

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Kansas EZ Library Update

        This was taken from an email from Lianne Flax on June 11, 2012.   Update on Kansas EZ Library June 11, 2012   Please find below an update on 3M Cloud Library and OneClickdigital.  It contains information from the Kansas EZ Library update webinar on June 1, and updated since then. …

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Grant County Library Featured in Garden City Telegram Article

This last weekend the Grant County Library in Ulysses was featured in the Garden City Telegram in an article entitled “The allure of the library”.    Check out this article to learn more about some of the library staff, their patrons, and library activities. Here is one of the many highlights from the article: Mathes …

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