Learning Day - [UPDATE]

I am spending two days in Wichita at the Kansas Library Association annual conference.  It's nice to take a day or two every once in a while and learn what is going on with other people who do what you do.  It is also nice (sometimes) to sit in a session and think, "Hey, we already do that!"  Other times though, while it might sting a bit, it's nice to hear about a better way of doing something you thought you were doing well.

One thing in that latter category applies to HPL for sure.  It is that HPL has some major work to do on its website.  This is something I have been conscious of for a long, long time.  It's also something for which we haven't had the time / skill set / money to complete.  But those excuses are going by the wayside.  We have a happy confluence of opportunities coming over the next 2-3 months and we are starting the planning phase of a re-vamp.

I am looking forward to this afternoon when I will be learning more about graphic novel collecting and also about the Kansas Library Express which is a state-wide system for sharing books and other material. [UPDATE] - I have looked through the information from the KLE courier system discussion and feel somewhat more confident now about joining the network and receiving real value from it.  They presented a nice map which I will post here as soon as I can get it scanned.  The 200 or so libraries already participating are distributed rather nicely throughout the state.  Some of the larger libraries with which we regularly exchange lots of books are not yet on the system.  However, enough of our lighter-volume "regular" borrowers are on it to warrant a serious look.  Time to start thinking about Monday and putting all these good ideas into practice...