Save the Date! Kansas Library Conference

By , 01/07/2013

Please don’t forget, Kansas Library Conference will be in the fall instead of the spring this year.

October 9-11, 2013, Topeka, Capitol Plaza Hotel

Hope to see you there!

M.E. Grosdidier named KLTA president

By , 08/21/2012

M.E. Grosdidier of Eudora has accepted the Presidency of the Kansas Library Trustee Association. KLTA is the largest section of the Kansas Library Association, and has represented library trustees, friends and citizen supporters since 1999.

M.E. is a retired School Library Media Specialist. She worked in the Olathe School District for 27 years as a teaching librarian.

She currently serves on the Northeast Kansas Library System’s Executive Board, and was Secretary in 2011. She is a past President of the Eudora Public
Library Board.

M.E. has attended national library conferences with recruiting, strategic planing and library advocacy as a focus. She traveled with Kansas librarians to Colorado in 2010 and to Texas in 2011 for the Association of Small and Rural Libraries (ARSL) Conferences.

She and her husband live on a farm south of Eudora.

M.E. is looking forward to the Kansas Library Conference, October 9-11, 2013, in Topeka.

She encourages interested Library Trustees to become active in KLTA’s leadership. M.E. can be contacted at megrosdidier@gmail.com

Children’s Section and YA Roundtable to Merge

By , 07/11/2012

In order to stimulate participation and membership, the Children’s Section and the Young Adult Roundtable have decided to merge into one Youth Services Section. Anyone who is interested in youth services is welcome to join this group.

If you are curious about the direction of the group, already involved, or if you want to become more involved, the first Youth Services Section Meeting will be held on August 15th at 10:00 AM. This will be an online meeting through Collaborate.

To access the meeting on the 15th, just follow this link.

If you have any questions about this meeting, please contact Brandon Hines; bhines@hayspublib.org

Upcoming Conference Dates

By , 06/29/2012

Kansas Library Conference 2013, October 9-11, 2013, Topeka, Capitol Plaza Hotel
Kansas Library Conference 2014, October 29-31, 2014, Wichita, Hyatt Regency

Both of these conferences will be held in conjunction with the Kansas Association of School Librarians (KASL).

Kansas Library Conference 2015 will likely be a bi-state joint conference with the Missouri Library Association. Dates and location TBD.

Hope to see you there!

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