Weekly Wrap-Up

System Spotlight By Staff Ness City Public Library Interactive Display Patrons were treated to an interactive bulletin board at Ness City Public Library, transporting them inside a magical storybook! What a creative way to get some patron engagement! Looks great, Lauries! 🙂 Interactive Movie at Liberal Memorial Library Liberal Memorial Library patrons had a scary […]

System Spotlight By Staff Future Dates & Training Opportunities (All Times in CST) August 30th – Summer Library Program Evaluations Due! September 2nd – SWKLS Office Closed for Labor Day September 4th – 12 PM – 1 PM – Emergency and Crisis Management in Libraries/Register Here September 10th – 2 PM – Twosday Takeaway: Multicultural

System Spotlight By Staff Hamilton County Library Grand Re-Opening and Ribbon Cutting Congratulations to Amy Brucker and staff on the grand re-opening of Hamilton County Library! Part of our SWKLS staff was able to attend the ribbon cutting held on July 30th. After much hard work, the project is complete and the new space is

System Spotlight By Staff Stevens Co Escape Room – By Laurie Crawford The Stevens County Library had an Escape Room for the month of July and used the SWKLS Breakout EDU Kit.  We started out with staff giving it a go to make sure everything worked right. It was lots of fun and all ages

System Spotlight By Staff Fair Season Future Dates & Training Opportunities (All Times in CST) July 29th, 11 AM – 12 PM – Supporting Staff and Student Mental Health (Webinar)/Register Here August 2nd – 10 AM – 3 PM – Tech Day+/Register Here August 9th, 10 AM – 12 PM – Southwest Kansas Library System

System Spotlight By Staff Register Here Future Dates & Training Opportunities (All Times in CST) July 23rd, 9 AM – 9:45 AM – Koha eCard Admin Training/Register Here July 23rd, 12 PM – 12:45 PM – Four Ways to Advocate for Libraries in 2024 (Webinar)/Register Here July 24th, 4 PM – 4:45 PM – Koha

System Spotlight By Staff Welcome Miguel Coca – SWKLS Collection Specialist Please see the Cataloging, Collection Development, and ILL section for his introduction. 4th of July parade at Morton County Future Dates & Training Opportunities (All Times in CST) July 17th, 1 PM – 2 PM – A Mindful Approach to Stress (Webinar)/Register Here July

System Spotlight By Staff Fowler Public Library’s Summer Activities Fowler Public Library was swamped with patrons this summer, taking advantage of the summer library program! Great job, Kelli!! Future Dates & Training Opportunities (All Times in CST) July 8th, 12 PM – 1 PM – Amazing STEM Experiments Made Easy (Webinar)/Register Here July 10th, 2

System Spotlight By Staff Grant Co. – “The Taste of Tuscanny.” The library offered an International Cooking class for adults “The Taste of Tuscanny.” The Grant County Extension agent presented the class and shared what she learned while visiting Italy. The class was an hour and a half, for adults, and part of the Summer

System Spotlight By Staff DCPL started off the Adult Summer Learning Program with the musical stylings of the Dodge City Community College Jazz Band. Stanton Co Public Library was visited by Skippy Jon Future Dates & Training Opportunities (All Times in CST) June 19th – SWKLS Office closed in observance of Juneteenth June 20th –