Videos and Handouts
2023
- Summer Library Program, 2023: All Together Now Idea Swap
- Summer Library Program for New Librarians 2023: All Together Now!
2022
- Library Buildings Interest Group 11/29 – Historic Buildings with Katrina Ringler
- Fall In-Service
- Story Time Interest Group Session 6: Family Engagement
- Story Time Interest Group Session 5: Dialogic Reading
- Welcome Back, School Librarians! 2022-2023
- Finding Space for Families in Small and Rural Libraries: FEPL Grant Preview
- Story Time Interest Group Session 4: Play-Based Learning
- Competitive Grant Preview: Equipment/Technology Grant
- Story Time Interest Group Session 3: Storytelling and Retelling
- Intellectual Freedom: Fighting the Good Fight with Martin Garnar
- Story Time Interest Group 2: Choosing Picture Books
- Story Time Interest Group 1: Structuring your Storytime
- KASL Spring Meeting
- Intro to Niche Academy
- PLIX Creative Learning Strategies for School-Aged Programming
- Finance Interest Group 3/22
- Small but Mighty Interest Group
- Website Training
- SEKLS Forum 3/1/22
- Seed Library Interest Group
- Finance Interest Group
- Summer Reading for New Librarians or Those Looking to Revamp Their Programs
2021
- Welcome Back to School, 2021: Digital Resources for Classrooms from the State Library of Kansas
- Post Digital Literacies 101: Practical Strategies for Living Online
- Junior Library Guild Forum for SEKLS School Librarians
- Mackin for School and Public Libraries
- Virtual Storytime Programming
- Public Library Survey Training
- Budget and Finances Q&A
- Ask the Expert: End-of-Year Selection and Purchasing
- SEKLS Fall In-Service: Keynote
- SEKLS Fall In-Service Handouts
- How Poverty Affects Health, Society, and Families
- Therapeutic Approach to Stress Management Through Workplace Ergonomics
- Selection in Collection Development
- Digital Resources of State Library and State Historical Society
- Launching a Teen Discord Server
- Thinking of Genrefying Your Collection? Considerations when Starting
- ARPA Grant Budget & Evaluation Workshop, Zoom Recording
- ARPA Grant Writing Tips from SEKLS, Zoom Recording
- Academic In-Service
- After Lunch Course: Customer Service with pat Wagner
- After Lunch Course: Library Advocacy with Jamie LaRue
- Budgeting Workshop
- Collection Development Workshop
- Green Trend workshop
- Keeping It Legal Workshop Slides
- SEKLS Annual Meeting
2020
- Social Media Platform How-To for Libraries: Mini-Webinar Series
- Virtual Storytime Programming
- Partners for Healthy Communities
- Presentation Resources
- Helping Public Libraries Meet Community Health Needs
Videos for Trustee Training
Contact Person: April Hernandez
After Lunch Courses 2022-2023
Regional Library Systems – Statewide Professional Development Collaboration
March 10, 2022 at 1:30: After-lunch course with Andrew Smith: Policy Writing and review
June 9 at 1:30: Intellectual Freedom with Martin Garner
Sept 8 at 1:30: Cultural Humility with Xan Goodman
Dec 8 at 1:30: Lead from Where You Are with Sharon Morris
March 30, 2023 at 1:30: After-lunch course: Accessibility with Carli Spina
SEKLS Workshops
SEKLS offers workshops on a variety of library-related topics annually. Generally, about a dozen workshops per year are offered, some in multiple locations. There is no charge for attendance to staff and trustees from member libraries.
Continuing Education Credit
Participants can receive continuing education credit. School librarians from many districts can also use the workshops as credit toward recertification.
Continuing Education Grants
SEKLS provides a limited number of continuing education grants. The application forms for these and other grants can be found under the Grants page. The guidelines for these grants can be found here.
CE Implementation Project
Continuing Education Implementation Projects allow libraries to receive additional CE hours by putting into practice the knowledge they gain in SEKLS workshops. See the Extended CE Implementation Project Guidelines and the Proposal Form here. Also here is a Sample Budget Worksheet.
Frequently Asked Questions