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Library Development
Americans with Disability Act Compliance |
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Important Links |
The Library Development Division provides information, consulting and programs that support the development of excellent customer service to Kansans through their local libraries. Please browse our web page for information on these topics:
Staff
Cindi Hickey
785-296-2146
chickey@kslib.info
Cindi is the Director of the Library Development Division and the WebJunction Kansas Coordinator. She is also the liaison with the Kansas Library Consultants for Children and Youth (KLCY).
Shannon Roy
785-296-2148
shanroy@kslib.info
Shannon is the Continuing Education Coordinator and the Administrator of the State Library certification programs for the library administrators and trustees. She is also the liaison with the Kansas Library Trustee Association (KLTA) and the Friends of Kansas Libraries (FOKL).
Roy Bird
785-296-4105
royb@kslib.info
Roy is the Director of the Kansas Center for the Book, which handles several children’s programs, including Kansas Reads to Preschoolers and Letters About Literature. Roy is also the LSTA Coordinator and handles all consulting questions on LSTA programs. Roy also currently handles many questions on budget and library law issues.
Topics
Americans with Disabilities Act
ADA Compliance Checklist
This checklist has been developed and updated by the State Library of Kansas to help public libraries measure their facilities’ compliance with the ADA regulations and plan for fuller compliance as their library buildings develop.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) – WebJunction Self-paced Course
This self-paced course is concerned less with facility compliance and much more with employment law under the ADA. This course outlines how employers can ensure that they are ADA-compliant and informs them of the consequences of failing to comply with the legislation.
Certification Program for Kansas Library Administrators
The Kansas Certification Program for Library Administrators was designed to help Kansas librarians document and market their career development. The program is open to administrative personnel in all Kansas libraries. Library administrators are certified at one of four levels based on their educational accomplishments. The requirement for re-certification is to document 45 contact hours of training within the three year certification period.
There is also a list of Frequently Asked Questions on the certification program.
Use this list to check your date of certification.
Collection Management
CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries
The CREW Manual has been the classic tool for weeding library collections for many years. It was recently revised and updated by Jeanette Larson at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Arizona State Library Collection Development Training
This is an excellent source of self-paced training on Collection Development and includes all areas of Selection, Acquisitions, Gifts, Weeding and Policy.
Merchandising and Marketing on WebJunction Kansas Continuing Education
Modern libraries are marketing their collections through special shelving arrangements and topical displays that make access to their collections more friendly to the library users. This site is a collection of projects on marketing and displays.
Continuing Education
The Continuing Education tab on WebJunction Kansas is where the Certification Program and the Core Competencies are kept, as well as archived webinars and the websites for the latest Learning 2 Action Administrative Training Programs. If you are a participant in a Learning 2 Action Program, you will be directed to post discussion and projects on the site for the current training topic.
The following Administrative Training Courses have web pages on WebJunction Kansas Continuing Education.
Library Budgets
Trustee Core Skill Three: Building Effective Support for the Library
This is the training material that was developed at the State Library of Kansas to meet Trustee Core Skill Three: Developing Effective Support. It was designed to be used in Library Board tutorials for core skill training.
Advocacy for Trustees
This excerpt from The Successful Library Trustee Handbook describes the types of advocacy Library Board members can provide and offers suggestions for effective advocacy.
Library Facilities
Designing a Fine Library
This publication is intended to help trustees and staff of smaller public libraries plan for building programs. This document places a heavy emphasis on early planning for building projects, since many costly mistakes result from inadequate planning.
Toolkit for Planning and Building Public Libraries
This publication from the State Library of Utah offers a wide variety of resources for librarians and boards that are planning and implementing a building program.
ADA Checklist
This checklist has been developed and updated by the State Library of Kansas to help public libraries measure their facilities’ compliance with the ADA regulations and plan for fuller compliance as their library buildings develop.
Maintenance Checklist
A checklist intended to help staff in small libraries maintain their facilities.
Planning
New Pathways to Planning is a tool customized for use by librarians in small and medium sized libraries as they do strategic planning.
Trustee Core Skill Five: Creating and Using a Strategic Plan
This document has been used in the Statewide Training Program for Kansas Library Trustee Certification. It is intended to help library boards begin a strategic planning process for the library.
Trustees
The Kansas Library Trustee Certification Program
The full text of the trustee certification program has the core skills, guidelines, enrollment forms, and application forms.
WebJunction Kansas – Friends and Trustees
This part of WebJunction Kansas has valuable resources for library trustees. There are more resources in separate pages for “Friends” and “Trustees.”
The Training Materials for Trustee Core Skills were created for consultants and directors who will be teaching board tutorials for the certification program.
Youth Services
Go to the Kansas Center for the Book website for information on two widely popular programs for Kansas youth. One is the annual program called Kansas Reads to Preschoolers and the other is the latest Letters About Literature, where students of all ages are invited to write a letter to an author who has shaped them or touched their lives.
Go to the Kansas Public Library Youth Services Guidelines for information on excellence in Children and Youth Services. This publication was updated in 2004, but continues to offer valuable information.
Blue Skyways | Kansas Center for the Book
Audio Books, Music & More | Homework Kansas | State Data Center | Talking Books
State Library of Kansas, Capitol Building, Room 343-N, 300 SW 10th Avenue, Topeka KS, 66612-1593
infodesk@kslib.info | Phone: 785.296.3296 or toll free: 1.800.432.3919
