System Spotlight
By Staff
Future Dates & Training Opportunities (All Times in CST)
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Week of December 23rd – 27th
24th – 26th – SWKLS Office Closed for the Winter Holiday
If you still have CE to complete before the year’s end, please check our wiki for recorded opportunities. Thank you! Enjoy the holidays!
Consulting
By Sara Wilson
Image provided by pixabay.com contributor Jenny_Nguyen
I want to take this time to thank each one of you for the time you take to work within your communities and make them a better place. You as the director do many duties that the general public don’t see, but know that I appreciate all that you do. To your staff and board, I thank them for the hours they spend at the library. To the staff that are meeting the public everyday and providing the programming for your communities, thank you for all your hard work.
Thank you to the System Board members. You are the guiding force for the System that I have the pleasure of navigating for the members. To the staff here at the System Office: Tandy; Sara; Miguel; Steve; Bernardo; and Chris…thank you for all you do for the System and our members. You have all been hard working and been willing to make adjustments when I ask you to.
I appreciate how everyone allows me to be serious, when need be, but also have fun when we get together. I always love seeing each of your smiling faces at our meetings and/or workshops and how you network with each other at these events.
I hope your holidays and New Year is filled with Joy – Richard
Some Holiday Cheer for You!
Cataloging, Collection Development, and ILL
By Miguel Coca
Collection Development Inspiration
Adult Fiction
Children’s & YA Fiction
Versed in Verso
Happy New Year VERSO Group!
The next Versed in VERSO is Tuesday, January 14th at 11:00 AM ET / 8:00 AM PT. The webinar is scheduled for 1 hour.
- Registration is open: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8428489345512763994
- Topics:
- Updates on 2025 product plans for VERSO
- There is space on the registration form to ask a question and we’ll answer as many as possible during the webinar.
The recording from December’s Versed in VERSO is posted here: Staff Dashboard > Support > VERSO.
Regards,
Julie
Julie Cavender, MLIS
VERSO Product Manager | Lakewood, CO
(909) 569-1527 | jjc@auto-graphics.com
Sharing about SHAREit
Registration is open at: https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/1617147851576414468
Additional Sharing about SHAREit webinars are scheduled for:
- Wednesday, February 19
- Wednesday, March 12
The registration link for each session will be sent about a month in advance.
The most recent Sharing about SHAREit webinars are posted at the top of the chart here: Staff Dashboard > Support > SHAREit.
Thank you,
Debbie
Deborah Hensler
Product Manager – SHAREit | Pittsburgh, PA
O: 909-569-1512 | C: 412-258-0372 | dmh@auto-graphics.com
From the SWKLS Pro Collection
Designed to help you thrive, Your Leadership Edge offers powerful and provocative ideas to help you mobilize groups around what matters most. KLC’s newest resource offers insights about the daily practice of leadership. It s a practical, comprehensive guide designed to help you hone the behaviors, attitude and mindset necessary to create lasting impact for yourself, your organization or your community. Your Leadership Edge will help you take your leadership practice to the next level.
From the SWKLS S.T.E.A.M Collection
Calling all creative thinkers and curious minds—it’s time to tinker! The KEVA Maker Bot Maze lets you experiment, innovate and create with precision-engineered KEVA planks and a variety of doodads and gizmos! Customize a pair of motorized bots using crafty items found within this one-of-a-kind kit. The more unique looking, the better! Then construct your maze’s tunnels, doorways, passages and obstacles from the planks and connectors, or by gathering things you have around the house.
KEVA Maker Bot Maze is the ultimate engineering tool—watch in awe as your personalized bot zooms through your hand-crafted maze! Creativity is the key to becoming a master maker. What will you create?
• Strengthens understanding of design, strategizing and proportion
• Creativity meets building
• 30 KEVA Planks, 8 KEVA half planks, 25 connectors, 2 motorized bots, 6 tumble blocks and 3 bumper balls
• Googly eyes, pipe cleaners, feathers, pom-poms, glue dots, tape, string, felt and craft foam
Technology
by Christopher Dressler
This week in Cybersecurity!
Libraries are cornerstones of communities, providing access to information, technology, and resources for all. However, as libraries embrace digital services, they become prime targets for cyber threats. Cybersecurity training is vital to safeguard both the library and its patrons. With the increased frequency hacking in the headlines today it is important to schedule Cybersecurity Basics training for your library employees.
We will train your employees about password management, password managers, multifactor authentication, and much more. Having a good cybersecurity foundation will protect you and your library patrons and employees from hackers, data breaches, protecting sensitive data and most importantly, downtime. It will also help your employees build trust with your technology services and provide a safe and secure environment for your patrons.
If you keep passwords written on a sticky note under your computer keyboard or have a spreadsheet on your desktop, then a cybersecurity training will teach you a safer way to save your passwords. Get 2025 started right by reaching out to your SWKLS Tech Trainer and schedule your cybersecurity training now.
If you have any other questions, please contact the IT guys at the SWKLS office.