System Spotlight
By Staff
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Consulting
By Sara Wilson
- July 14th: 1 PM – 1:45 PM – Decode the Funder’s Playbook: How to Read Between the Lines of an RFP | Webinar | Register Here
- July 15th: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – Bring Back the Joy: Fundraise Like a 5th Grader (and Love Your Job Again)| Webinar | Register Here
- July 16th: 1: 00 PM – 2:00 PM – Serving Neurodiverse Library Patrons|Webinar| Register Here
- July 16th: 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM – Talking Teen Services: Strengths-Based Relationship Building Panel | Webinar |Register Here
- July 17th: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – Celebrate Stories Across Generations | Webinar | Register Here
Don’t forget to check our wiki for these archived, on-demand trainings!
Meet the SWKLS Team!
Free Colorable Kansas Bookmarks & a Chance to Win a Free Book!
Kansas Library Friends!
With school starting up soon, can you use a way to promote research and learning resources at your library? And Kansas eCards?
Say yes and we’ll send you as many bookmarks as you’d like to give to your community and friends (and their friends!).
Bookmarks are colorful, color-able, come in bundles of 50 and promote Kansas, Britannica and the State Library’s quasquicentennial in the north wing of the statehouse – a spiffy way to say 125-year anniversary of our current location.
First come, first served and we can serve many Kansas libraries with the bookmarks Britannica kindly gifted to all of us.
Bonus: All libraries who request bookmarks will be entered into a free NEW book giveaway. Books to giveaway were submitted to the Kansas Notable Book committee for review and are all Kansas-related.
Allie Lousch
SLK Communications Coordinator
Cataloging, Collection Development, and ILL
By Miguel Coca
Collection Development Inspiration
Adult Fiction
Children’s & YA Fiction
From the SWKLS Pro Collection
The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading
Heather Cass White’s Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, and encourages readers to trust in the value of the exhilaration and fascination such reading entails. Rather than arguing for the moral value of reading or the preeminence of literature as an aesthetic form, Books Promiscuously Read illustrates the irreplaceable experience of the self that reading provides for those inclined to do it.
Through three sections―Play, Transgression, and Insight―which focus on three ways of thinking about reading, Books Promiscuously Read moves among and considers many poems, novels, stories, and works of nonfiction. The prose is shot through with quotations reflecting the way readers think through the words of others.
Books Promiscuously Read is a tribute to the whole lives readers live in their books, and aims to recommit people to those lives. As White writes, “What matters is staying attuned to an ordinary, unflashy, mutely persistent miracle; that all the books to be read, and all the selves to be because we have read them, are still there, still waiting, still undiminished in their power. It is an astonishing joy.”
Reminder: Sharing about SHAREit
Please share the following information with your libraries; it was sent to everyone who registered for Wednesday’s Sharing about SHAREit.
The recording, slides, and transcript from Wednesday’s Sharing about SHAREit on Patron-Initiated Requesting are posted here: Staff Dashboard > Support > SHAREit.
The next SHAREit about SHAREit webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, July 23, 2025, at 11am PT / 12pm MT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET.
- Topic: ILL Q &A
- Registration is open at: https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/3465531355028988416
- There is space on the registration form to ask a question about managing ILL requests and space to indicate if you’d like a specific topic covered in a future Sharing about SHAREit webinar.
Upcoming Sharing about SHAREit webinars are scheduled for:
- July 23 – ILL Q&A
- August 20 – Topic TBD
- September 10 – ILL Q&A
I hope to see you at a future Sharing about SHAREit session!
Regards,
Debbie
Deborah Hensler
Product Manager – SHAREit | Pittsburgh, PA
O: 909-569-1512 | C: 412-258-0372 | dmh@auto-graphics.com
Technology
by Ryan Miller
Notice: Possible service interruptions
This weeks wrap up on the tech side is an early notice of possible service interruptions with remote technology support coming up. Due to an update & changes made by our remote support software vendor, we are currently working on and waiting to hear back from our vendor as this change over develops.
What does this mean for you? There are some devices we are not currently able to remote into until the change over is resolved. If we are unable to remote into your PC to assist with any technical difficulties, we will attempt to work around the issue in other ways (screenshots via email as one example). We apologize for any inconveniences this outage may cause & appreciate your understanding. If you have any concerns or questions please feel free to reach out.
Online Safety / Cybersecurity Resources
Courtesy of the national Cybersecurity Alliance
Tread Lightly Online: How to Check and Manage Your Digital Footprint
6 Cybersecurity Myths Debunked
Best Vacation and Travel Cybersecurity Tips
E-Rate News
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