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SUMMARY:State Public Library Survey Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Public Libraries should have their statistics finalized in Counting Opinions. Extension requests should filter through NEKLS\, we will contact the State Library on your behalf.
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/state-public-library-survey-deadline/
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SUMMARY:Summer Library Programming for Adult Patrons with Greta Funk
DESCRIPTION:Greta Funk has been the director at the Nortonville Public Library (in the tiny town of Nortonville in northeast Kansas) for about three and a half years. Adult programming has been a priority for her since the beginning\, and she’s excited to share some ideas from her work as the CSLP Adult Manual committee chair for the upcoming summer reading season! The workshop will be a great place to find ideas and inspiration for adult and multigenerational programming that can be easily adapted to fit your library’s needs.
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/summer-library-programming-for-adult-patrons-with-greta-funk/
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SUMMARY:La Hora Virtual: How to Develop a Virtual Program to Promote Spanish Resources (PCI Webinar)
DESCRIPTION:This hour-and-a-half webinar will guide attendees on how to develop and implement a virtual program designed to promote Spanish resources at your library. Engage in interactive exercises that will help you draft your future virtual drop-in hour in español…step by step.   \n\n\n\nAs a result of this program\, attendees will learn how to:  \n\n\n\n– Address digital literacy from culturally competent frameworks  \n\n\n\n– Increase the use of Spanish library resources and programs   \n\n\n\n– Amplify community building through virtual interactions  \n\n\n\nAna Villapando ~ Biography   \n\n\n\nAna Villalpando is a doctoral student at University of California\, San Diego. Since her career in public libraries started in 2016\, Ana has prioritized advocating for language justice\, equal access to information and addressing systemic inequities through conscious library programming. Ana’s work has been presented at Reforma National Conference\, California Library Association Conference\, Seguimos Creando Enlaces Binational Conferences\, and California Libraries Learn Academy.   
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/la-hora-virtual-how-to-develop-a-virtual-program-to-promote-spanish-resources-pci-webinar/
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SUMMARY:Reframing Failure: How to Keep Calm and Carry On (MALA Webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Caitlin McMahan\, Eugene Public Library \n\n\n\nWednesday\, January 7th 2024 at 2 p.m. \n\n\n\nThis session is about reframing how we look at “failures” and how we as staff can learn from our “mistakes\,” give ourselves grace\, and create a more realistic understanding of what it means to lead programs in libraries. \n\n\n\nRegister here (Sign up for free as a member via NEKLS)
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/reframing-failure-how-to-keep-calm-and-carry-on-mala-webinar/
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SUMMARY:Autism: A Conversation with Carly Danesh-Jones (Ryan Dowd Webinar)
DESCRIPTION:If you would like to receive a registration link directly to your email address\, from Ryan Dowd\, you should go to http://bit.ly/MonthlyWebinarSignup to signup. \n\n\n\nOr you can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7116469294105/WN_qHE0kVbbRrqCmcYLcajNXw#/registration \n\n\n\nAbout the Guest: \n\n\n\nCarly Danesh-Jones is an autistic woman and advocate\, shaping policy and practice related to autistic women and girls since 2008. \n\n\n\nOver the last 15 years\, Carly’s books\, films and advocacy campaigned for greater acceptance\, equality of diagnosis\, education and safeguarding of autistic women globally. She was the first British autistic women to address the UN on rights in 2014. In 2021\, her book\, Safeguarding Autistic Girls\, was distributed to all UK police forces to use. \n\n\n\nCarly was awarded an MBE for her services to the autistic community in 2017 and recognized with a honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University in 2022. \n\n\n\nDuring the interview\, Carly will share her experience of how homelessness and autism intersect after previously being homeless as a teenage mother.
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/autism-a-conversation-with-carly-danesh-jones-ryan-dowd-training/
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SUMMARY:Adventure Summer 2024: Best Ideas for Library Staff Serving Youth & Families
DESCRIPTION:Register at: https://forms.gle/gm41e9RvfbcnAg1CAYou will receive the link to the webinar by email before the event. \n\n\n\nAdventure begins on your computer screen at this summer library program webinar!Get inspired with new ideas for your summer program. Featuring topics such asreading tracking\, incentives\, storytimes\, and programming\, you will come away fromthis webinar with practical and reproducible ideas to use at your library this summer.Liz Karstadt has over 12 years of experience as a public librarian and is currentlyemployed as the children’s librarian at Rahway Public Library in Rahway\, New Jersey.For 5 years\, she served as the co-chair for the New Jersey Statewide Summer ReadingCommittee and hosted several summer reading workshops for hundreds of librariansall over NJ. Liz lives in Aberdeen\, NJ with her husband and two adorable cats.
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/adventure-summer-2024-best-ideas-for-library-staff-serving-youth-families/
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SUMMARY:What's New in Readers Advisory with Becky Spratford (PCI Webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Helping leisure readers is a core service at all public libraries. It is something library staff do each and every day\, often without changes in how they perform this service for years\, if ever.   \n\n\n\nBut there is a lot more “new” in the tried-and-true world of Readers Advisory than you may realize.   \n\n\n\nJoin international Readers’ Advisory expert\, Becky Spratford\, as she walks you through some of the biggest trends in publishing and shows you how to best serve your leisure readers in 2024\, starting immediately.  \n\n\n\nBecky Spratford ~ Biography  \n\n\n\nBecky Spratford [MLIS] is a Readers’ Advisor in Illinois specializing in serving patrons ages 13 and up. She trains library staff all over the world on how to match books with readers through the local public library. She runs the critically acclaimed RA training blog RA for All. She is under contract to provide content for EBSCO’s NoveList database and writes reviews for Booklist and a horror review column for Library Journal.   \n\n\n\nKnown for her work with horror readers\, Becky is the author of The Reader’s Advisory Guide to Horror\, Third Edition [ALA Editions\, 2021]. She is on the Shirley Jackson Award Advisory Board and is a proud member of the Horror Writers Association and currently serves as the Association’s Secretary and organizer of their annual Librarians’ Day. You can follow Becky on Twitter @RAforAll.   
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/whats-new-in-readers-advisory-with-becky-spratford-pci-webinar/
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SUMMARY:TEEN Adventure Summer 2024: Great Ideas & Tips for Library Staff Serving Teens
DESCRIPTION:Register at: https://forms.gle/qFY9JkidtrMwseBB7You will receive the link to the webinar by email before the event. \n\n\n\nAdventure into the world of summer programming for tweens and teens. We’ll discusssome overall directions you can take your summer and some specific ideas that willinspire you.Jennifer McCulley is the Youth Services Coordinator for the McPherson Public Library.She loves pandas and hates orange M&Ms and has been working in Kansas librariesfor well over a decade.
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/teen-adventure-summer-2024-great-ideas-tips-for-library-staffserving-teens/
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SUMMARY:Level Up Your Library with AI: Practical Uses for Library Staff and Patrons (PCI Webinar)
DESCRIPTION:The future is here – learn how artificial intelligence is transforming libraries! Join our insightful webinar to discover how leading libraries leverage AI to improve programs\, empower patrons\, streamline operations\, and offer cutting-edge services.   \n\n\n\nWe’ll explore real-world examples and demo the latest AI applications for tasks like research\, readers’ advisory\, marketing\, data analysis and routine writing. Take advantage of this opportunity to prepare your library for an AI-enabled future.  \n\n\n\nAs a result of this program\, participants will be able to:   \n\n\n\n\nShare actionable strategies to implement AI in ways that augment (rather than replace) human expertise \n\n\n\nUnderstand how libraries big and small can make the most of AI to create more valuable\, personalized experiences for patrons and new efficiencies for staff \n\n\n\n\nKira Smith ~ Biography  \n\n\n\nKira is a Virtual Reference Specialist for Florida’s Ask A Librarian service and helps coordinate Florida’s statewide delivery service. With Master’s Degrees in Library Science and Education\, Kira brings a strong educational foundation to her work. She is passionate about helping people find the information they need. Additionally\, she freelances as a research consultant for journalists. Her background includes experience as an elementary school teacher and childbirth educator. Kira’s interests lie in teaching\, technology\, and travel. She is also an aspiring prompt engineer\, and she is excited to see what the future holds for this emerging field. 
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/level-up-your-library-with-ai-practical-uses-for-library-staff-and-patrons-pci-webinar/
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SUMMARY:Building Community Partnerships (Registration Full)
DESCRIPTION:Please save the date for a new Continuing Education opportunity on Friday\, February 23rd. NEKLS is hosting a presentation and lunch with Darci Hildebrand\, Director of the Wamego Public Library\, on Building Community Partnerships. This CE opportunity will expand on the very popular presentation that Darci made at the November KLA Conference. The session will be from 11 AM-1 PM\, including lunch provided by NEKLS. Due to space limitations\, NEKLS will offer this exclusive in-person opportunity for the first 35 that register. Open to Directors or Library Staff—one staff member from each Library please. Details and registration to come in the next few weeks. We hope you can join us!
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/building-community-partnerships/
LOCATION:NEKLS Office\, 4317 W 6th Street\, Lawrence\, KS\, 66049\, United States
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SUMMARY:Best Picture Books Published in 2023 (PCI Webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Are you looking for new picture books to share in your classroom\, curriculum\, or collection? This presentation will feature the “best of the best” from the 2023 publishing crop (for ages 1 -6).   \n\n\n\nA variety of books will be featured\, including quality read aloud books\, distinguished illustrations\, and picture books about diversity and inclusion. Log-in and enjoy this hour-long event.  \n\n\n\nAs a result of this program\, attendees will:  \n\n\n\n\nDevelop a list of new picture books that connect to the preschool and kindergarten audience\, both as read-aloud performance and one-to-one reading sessions \n\n\n\n\n\nLearn how to choose diverse books for collections and programming\, with a wide variety of themes\, tones\, subjects\, and illustration styles. Acquire simple techniques to analyze picture book art \n\n\n\n\n\nIdentify books that align with kindergarten readiness skills and make connections to other books while discovering new authors and illustrators \n\n\n\n\nKatie Clausen ~ Biography  \n\n\n\nKatie Clausen is the Early Literacy Services Manager at Gail Borden Public Library. She completed her MLIS from Dominican University and holds an M.A. in Children’s Literature from Simmons College.   \n\n\n\nShe has presented at the Illinois Library Association’s Annual Conferences\, ALSC Institute\, Opening Minds Early Childhood Conference\, and the National Network of Medical Libraries (NNLM). Check out Katie’s articles in the ILA Reporter and Children & Libraries: The Journal of ALSC. Katie’s specialties include: early literacy\, children’s literature evaluation\, play-based learning\, and best storytime practices. 
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/best-picture-books-published-in-2023-pci-webinar/
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SUMMARY:KORA Training at Lawrence Public Library (Registration Full)
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Public Library has contracted The League of Kansas Municipalities to provide in-person Kansas Open Records Act (KORA) training for their library staff members. Nicole Proulx Aiken\, who provided KOMA training in 2023\, will lead this presentation\, and be able to field questions about KORA compliance for public libraries. Registration is limited\, one participant per library – NEKLS is subsidizing up to 14 spots for our member public libraries. Deadline to register is February 16. \n\n\n\n\n10 AM Start\, February 29\, at the Lawrence Public Library Auditorium – training should last approximately 1.5 hours. \n\n\n\nNo online access or recordings will be available. \n\n\n\nAttendees will receive a 2023 KORA Manual.\n\n\n\n\nLet Dan (dalexander@nekls.org) know if you have any questions. \n\n\n\nRegister here: https://forms.gle/tJi5LmUG2yEAB6waA
URL:https://www.nekls.org/event/kora-training-at-lawrence-public-library/
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