Our Tech Day Registration is Live!! To register please go to our workshop registration page. Here are a few details: Date: February 15, 2013 (inclement weather day, February 22) Time: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm (registration starts at 9:00 am) Place: The Learning Center 308 W Frontview St Dodge City, KS 67801 Sessions Include: The …
Category: Technology
Jan 09
Freading eBook Service
Our statewide Freading account is ready to use! This is available right now for all patrons and staff to begin using. The direct link to instructions is: http://www.kslib.info/freading Notes about Freading: Access to Freading to check out books is only through the Kansas Library Card portal. Log in there, and you’ll see the Freading link …
Nov 05
Facebook for Kansas Libraries
A lot of new Kansas Library Facebook Groups and Pages have been popping up lately. If you are on Facebook, this is a great way to share ideas, get help, or just meet others in the same profession. Here are a few we have found and suggest checking out if they interest you: Groups: Kansas …
Sep 24
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 …
Sep 05
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, …
Jul 20
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” …
Jul 06
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 …
Jun 20
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. …
Apr 23
How to Use NetworkedBlogs
NetworkedBlogs is a Blog Directory. Think of it as the Yellow Pages of blogs. NetworkedBlogs also lets you setup syndication to Facebook and/or Twitter for your blog once you list your site. Note: This will only work for library webpages that are blog based. If you have a KLOW or WordPress page this will work …
Apr 18
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 …