North Central Kansas Libraries System

This article comes from a blog entitled “Everyday Advocacy” which is published by the Association for Library Services to Children, A Division of the American Library Association

ADVOCACY WITHIN THE LIBRARY

While advocacy outside your library is certainly important, don’t forget about sharing the message inside your library! Your staff and volunteers are already passionate about the services your library offers. Train them to share your library’s advocacy message with the people they encounter every day.

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Shareable: How to Be a Citizen Placemaker: Think Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper.

I think many of these ideas relate to how libraries can be community hubs that offer a place for citizens to interact and feel connected.

Here is a student presentation on library advocacy that arrived in my inbox today.  Very short and to the point.  Click here to view.

An excellent brief article in the November 1, 2012 issue of Library Journal talks about improving the library user’s experience by cleaning up the clutter in your library. Read the entire article here.

Ahoy there mateys! 

Just taking a minute to update you on the new story time and 6×6 kits we have available for checkout.

As you can see from this lovely photo, we’ve got pirates for this summer!  We now have 19 Story Time Kits and 3 of the state’s 6×6 Kits circulating.

View the complete list and let us know if you want to check one out.

Here’s my take on the ABCs of social media-author Anders Orsander.
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In case you missed the fun at our recent Summer Reading Program workshop, there’s still a chance to get good programming ideas and information on featured books for the early literacy, children’s and teen programs for 2013.

The Collaborative Summer Library Program and exclusive vendor Upstart, created two webinars that you can watch on demand.  You can also direct staff/volunteers to them for an introduction to the programming manual and lots of theme ideas.  These are completely free and available to any Kansas public library.

To access the webinars, you must be logged into the CSLP website.  If you don’t have an account, simply create one here.  If you’ve ordered promotional materials for past reading programs from Upstart, then you (or your library) already have an account.

You can also try directly accessing the webinars page here, but will still need to log in with your account info.  Once you click on the webinar you want to view, you’ll be asked to register to view the content, but it’s just a simple form so the CSLP can track usage of the archived versions.

These are well done webinars that provide a great overview of key manual content.  The speaker is the programming manual editor, so she really knows her stuff!