NorthWest Kansas Library System
NorthWest Kansas Library System
Executive Committee Meeting
February 9th
Agenda—Minutes—Director’s Report—Financial Report—Bill List—Draft Audit Report
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Upcoming Events
*Click on the “Zoom” at the end of each event to go directly to the Zoom room for the event.
Zoom Links coming soon!
- February 25th-Tech (Teams and Andy Shearer databases?) Zoom
- March 10th-After Lunch (Policy Writing and Review) Zoom
- April 26th-Summer Library Program (Patti Collins and crew) F2F
- May 12th-General and School Tracks (Collection Development for School Libraries, Weeding and Book Repair, and Comfortable Library Environment) F2F
- June 9th-After Lunch (Intellectual Freedom)
August-System Services, Fund Raising, and Marketing F2F - September 8th-After Lunch (Cultural Humility: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion)
- September 12th-STEAM Zoom
- October-KLA Conference F2F
- December 8th-After Lunch (Lead From Where You Are)
20 Second Talks with Jamie LaRue
Online Safety with Jacque Beckman
- Zoom Recording (Technical difficulties made it so only half the workshop is available)
STEAM/STEM with Amy Brownlee
Library Ethics with Pat Wagner
Full System Workshop & Meeting
Knowing and Building Your Community
Customer Service Skills with Pat Wagner
Kansas Memory
KS CIPA and Tech Planning
Verso Workshop
Advocacy with Jamie LaRue
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Talk About Libraries—Kansas Memory with Michael Church, Kansas Historical Society Archivist
Getting Statistics Ready
NWKLS Member Library Book Club Discussion–Crucial Conversations
Crafting Your Collection Workshop
https://wiki.swkls.org/index.php/Crafting_Your_Collection
Fall Workshop
Trustee Update
New Trustee Training
Full System Board Meeting
COVID Discussion
T3 Young Adult Training
Verso Duplicate Workshop
Humanities Kansas Presentation by Dan Eells (Click on the Title to see the PDF.)
Mindfullness– Janell Nease RN, CHC
Mindfulness: a mental state achieved by focusing on one’s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations. Used as a therapeutic technique. – dictionary def.
Ways to be mindful-
- Start your day with meditation/prayer
- Eat without distraction
- Exercise
- Practice taking a deep breath
- Mindful intake of fluids
- Use your senses.
Raisin Activity
- Pretend you have never seen a raisin before.
- Observe the way the raisin looks;
- How it feels;
- How their skin responds to its manipulation;
- Its smell;
- Its taste.
- Take a moment to write down your observations. Share your observations.
- Focusing on the raisin in your hand and make a point to notice everything about it, if you do this you are unlikely to be expending energy, time, and attention on worrying or ruminating about other parts of your lives.”
- Be present in the moment
- Don’t deny or avoid emotions
- Laugh at yourself, it’s ok to do that!
- Slow down
- Nourish your body
- Turn off all distractions
- Take a deep breath
- Mindful intake of fluids
- Use your senses.
Mindfulness with weight loss and eating-
- Food choices
- When you think of food, what comes to mind?
- Food Choices/Snacks
- Plan prep and prepare
- Setting short and long term weight loss goals
Mindfulness in exercise-
- Rule of thumb for exercise.
- What do you enjoy?
- Set goals
- Set times
- Get creative
Practice Positivity- For every negative there is a greater positive, find the silver lining in each day, each moment and each trial we face.
- Be a fountain not a drain.
- Crabs in a bucket…..
- See the cup not half empty, not half full but refillable!
Remember- misery loves company….. Steer clear of negativity and don’t engage in negative talk or gossip. In most cases, it’s not your circus and not your monkeys