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SUMMARY:Kansas Early Literacy Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join us! \nYou’re invited to the Kansas Early Literacy Symposium on Friday\, April 14\, 2023\, from 8:30am to 4pm at Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library. Mark your calendar and save the day–you won’t want to miss this energizing day of professional development. \nThis engaging session will bring together early childhood educators and library and museum professionals who work with families of children aged birth through Kindergarten and their families. \nThrough a combination of professional instruction and group interaction\, we will explore three key topics: \n\nEngineering and Empathy – helping young children explore STEM concepts\nMind in the Making – promoting and practicing executive function life skills\nFamily Engagement – best practices\, given a pandemic\n\nHere is the day’s agenda \nFor a sneak peek of our facilitator\, Beth Fredericks\, view this short video: “Just Enough Engagement”. \nCost: $20\, includes content\, handouts\, refreshments and lunch. \nPay in cash at the door. No invoices will be sent\, but printed receipts will be provided. \nKDHE has approved this event for 5 Clock Hours. \nSponsored by North Central Kansas Libraries System and Northeast Kansas Library System. \nContact Sandy Wilkerson (swilkerson@nckls.org) or Anna Foote (afoote@nekls.org).
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/kansas-early-literacy-symposium/
LOCATION:Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library\, 1515 SW 10th AVE\, Topeka\, KS\, 66604\, United States
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SUMMARY:2023 Spring Directors Institute
DESCRIPTION:Public library directors of Northeast Kansas\, please join us at the NEKLS office for the 2023 Spring Directors Institute on Friday\, April 21. At this continuing education event\, the sole Directors Institute of 2023\, public library directors will have the opportunity to network\, ponder big issues\, have a delicious lunch from Wheatfields\, and participate in two workshops. If you cannot make it in-person\, consider registering to watch the workshops over Zoom.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLocation\n\n\n\n\nNEKLS Office\n\n\n\n4317 West 6th Street\n\n\n\nLawrence\, KS 66049\n\n\n\n\nOverview of the Day\n\n\n\nFriday\, April 21 \n\n\n\n\n9:00 a.m. NEKLS Upstairs Meeting Room: network with early-birds\, Limited beverages and snacks available\n9:30 a.m. Start Time\, Introductions/Housekeeping\n10:00 a.m. Morning Workshop – Lacie Griffin\, Collection Development Manager for Johnson County Library: Collection Development (available in-person and online)\n11:30 a.m. Announcements\nNoon NEKLS Downstairs Meeting Room: Lunch catered by Wheatfields\n1:00 p.m. Afternoon Workshop – Ray Petty\, Technical Assistance Coordinator for Great Plains ADA Center: Accessibility (available in-person and online)\n2:30 p.m. Issues in the profession conversation \n3:20 p.m. Wrap-up \n3:30 p.m. Adjourn\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Workshops\n\n\n\nLacie Griffin is the Collection Development Manager for Johnson County Library; a public library system on the Kansas side of the Kansas City Metro area. In this position\, she is part of the Materials Handling Management Team and coordinates collection selection\, deselection and materials movement across a 14 branch system. Lacie also handles material challenges\, intellectual freedom training and collection development policy maintenance. This past year\, she became a member of the newly developed KLA Intellectual Freedom Committee\, supporting libraries and librarians throughout the state of Kansas.  \n\n\n\nThe past year has been complex and difficult for libraries with many challenges to books and collections. While the number of material challenges rise\, there are steps you can take to prepare your library and uphold intellectual freedom principals. In this workshop\, the presenter will discuss collection development policies\, supporting selection practices\, international publishing\, diversity collection audits\, and handling challenges to the collection. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRay Petty has been involved with the ADA since before it was a law\, he has served as the Kansas coordinator for the Great Plains ADA Center since 1994 and serves as Technical Assistance Coordinator for Region VII.  In 1997\, he helped found the ADA Symposium\, which has become the National ADA conference\, in May 2023 the annual conference will be in KCMO. During the past 20 years\, he has also been a consultant for local governments as well as secondary and post-secondary educational institutions and private businesses. Ray has been a long-time member of the ADA Resource Center for Equity and Accessibility at the University of Kansas.  \n\n\n\nInformed by a lifetime of fieldwork and recent ethnographic research\, in this workshop\, Ray will help us ensure ADA compliance and make our public spaces accessible. In this session participants will be provided best practices\, accessibility audit resources\, and be given plenty of opportunity to ask questions specific to their library.
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/2023-spring-directors-institute/
LOCATION:NEKLS Office\, 4317 W 6th Street\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66049\, United States
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SUMMARY:Readers’ Advisory: Building Beyond the Basics
DESCRIPTION:According to Diana Tixier Herald\, author of Genreflecting\, readers’ advisory is: “the act of putting people together with the books they love”. How do you connect people with titles that will be a great fit? \n\n\n\nIn this workshop\, our presenter\, Molly Wetta\, will provide an advanced readers’ advisory (RA) training for library professionals. In this presentation we will cover: \n\n\n\n\nTips and guidance from trainings by readers’ advisory experts Joyce Saricks and Nancy Pearl\,\n\n\n\nAdvanced readers’ advisory training through the lens of How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo\,\n\n\n\nSuggestions for practical habits to build readers’ advisory skills.\n\n\n\n\nA follow-up discussion will be available on May 11 at 10:00 a.m. over Zoom. In this second webinar\, participants will be able to refine RA skills – learning from their peers – in a casual small group atmosphere. \n\n\n\nThis readers’ advisory training series is presented by Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library and Northeast Kansas Library System. \n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\nYou can register for the Molly Wetta keynote here: Zoom Registration.  \n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMolly Wetta is the Library Services Manager for Santa Barbara Public Library\, overseeing programming\, outreach\, collections\, communications\, and patron services. Though she migrated west to California’s central coast\, a part of her heart will always be in her hometown of Lawrence\, Kansas\, where she was previously a collection development librarian at Lawrence Public Library. She approaches readers’ advisory like a sommelier – she’s WSET level 2 trained wine enthusiast in addition to being an avid and eclectic reader.
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