Future Dates & Training Opportunities
All times are in Central Standard Time (CST)
February 7, 2022, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – Summer Reading Program Family Idea Swap/Idea Submittal Link & Registration Link
February 8, 2022- Train U.P.!- STEAM/Registration Link
February 10, 2022, 10:00 am – Summer Reading Program Family Idea Swap/Zoom Link
February 10, 2022, 11: am – 12:00 pm – Western Kansas Community Foundation Overview Webinar/Registration Information is below.
February 24, 2022, 4:00 pm – “Freedom to Read Roundtable”
March 4, 2022 – Summer (Reading) Library Program Workshop/Registration Link
March 10, 2022 – After Lunch Course “Policy Writing & Review”
April 6, 2022 – SWKLS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Workshop. Location TBD.
June 9, 2022 – After Lunch Course “Intellectual Freedom”
September 8, 2022 – After Lunch Course “Cultural Humility”
December 8, 2022 – After Lunch Course “Lead From Where You Are”
System Spotlight
If you would like to highlight your library, we’d like to hear from you. Whether it’s about your activities, programs or anything else that is going on that you’re proud of we can hold a spotlight on your library here in the Weekly Wrap UP if you email Jody at jhattrup@swkls.org
February Fun!!
Morton County Library has some fun new additions to its library for the month of February. In Memory of Darlene Nelson, The Morton County Library is just “Hopping Green!” Darlene Collected Frogs throughout the years, (not intentionally either) from her friends & family members for every occasion. In this display alone, there are over 125 frogs! The Library is CROAKING with FROGS!
Returning this year at Morton County Library, Blind Date With a Book! Why not give a new book a shot without judging it’s cover. We are encouraging patrons to read 50 pages in the book before giving up on it!
Consulting
State Library Survey
The System Libraries are two thirds finished in submitting the 2021 State Library Survey this year. For the nine that still have to submit remember the deadline is this weekend, February 6, 2021. If you aren’t going to make it by that deadline you can contact Alice Smith, LSTA & State Data Coordinator, at 785-296-2008 or by email alice.smith@ks.gov. You will need to do so today for her to give your library an extension.
S.T.E.A.M. Train UP! this Tuesday at 2:00 pm
MIT Media Lab researchers have been teaming up with librarians across the country to create a variety of fun, educational programs under PLIX (Public Library Innovation Exchange). Join Jennifer McCulley, Youth Services Coordinator at McPherson Public Library and Creative Learning Ambassador for PLIX to learn about the program. You will learn how to access pre-prepared activities, resources, online workshops for librarians and a fantastic forum of librarians there to help. We’ll work through a sample activity to show you how easy it will be to implement creative learning in your library. Be prepared with some stuff from your craft supplies (or recycle bin)–because we are doing a program sample that will cost you next to nothing-Space Food!
Summer Reading Program Idea Swap February 10th
This next Thursday is the Summer Reading Program Idea Swap, February 10, starting at 10:00 am. The Swap is planned to be one and a half hours long. If we get done earlier we will do so for everyone to return to the regular work schedule. For those that registered you should have received an email from Anna Foote, Youth Consultant for NEKLS. If you don’t receive the Zoom link by Monday let me know, however the Zoom link is above in the calendar and here.
2 Factor Authentication
The System office is still waiting for the information from our Insurance Agent concerning two factor authentication. When we receive this information, office staff will ask any additional questions on how this will affect the System office and our member libraries. We want to ensure the information that we relay to you is as accurate as can be from us.
Recording of State Survey Overview from January 13, 2022
Join us on Friday, March 4, 2022 at First Church of God for a fun fill a day of “Ocean of Possibilities”.Miss Patty Collins and Miss Diane Bott from Central Kansas Library System are presenting on 2022 Summer Library Program manual and going to show you that program planning is easier than digging for buried treasure.
We will have an afternoon session on Scratch so don’t forget your laptops. See you there. Click here to register.
Cataloging, Collection Development, and ILL
CatExpress Usage Report: June 2021 – January 2022 / Link
Dear Catalogers: A Word about Brief Bibs…
Auto-Graphics and I have been discussing brief bibs and how to save the circ history once the brief bib has been deleted. Here is what Paul has taught me:
“I have run a number of tests and unfortunately when you do delete the brief bib or even merge it to another record the circulation history of that item is lost. If you wanted to, it may be better to build out the brief bib instead of removing it, giving it better bibliographic information. When in AGcat, you can find a record in a cataloging resource and open the record up. Then you can open up the brief bib in AGcat as well and you will have 2 windows open in AGcat. Then under record you can use the “Copy Bibliographic data for overlay” (kind of like a merge) and bring over record data from the one record to the brief record and then save the brief record with the good bib info.“
*If you are interested in trying this procedure, you can create a list of ISBNs of the brief bibs with circ history you would like to keep, and send it to me. I can perform this “overlay” and see what happens. It might be a fun experiment!
The SWKLS Cataloging Document has been published!! / Link
This is the document we created and edited together as a result of our cataloging workshop, Crafting Your Collection 2021. Please keep a copy handy. We will revise this document during CYC2022 later in the year. Thank you for all of your comments! (Visit the link above and scroll all the way down to the end.)
Technology
Join us for the Train U.P. Tuesday, February 8, 2022, where Jennifer McCulley will present on S.T.E.A.M. Click here for the registration link.
Data Cleanup Challenge Winners
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Data Cleanup Challenge for National Data Privacy Day. Hope the Data Cleanup Challenge was beneficial to those who participated. The winners of the Data Cleanup Challenge are Yaneth Holguin from Kinsley Public Library, Laurie Crawford from Stevens County Library, and Savanah Moomaw from Lane County Library.