Great Idea!
Add Tax Filing links!
Janelle Mercer, our good friend at the Southwest Kansas Library System (and their Assistant Technology Consultant and Trainer), created these colorful step-by-step instructions (.pdf) for adding some timely Tax Filing links to a WordPress 2.9 site (using the Stanton County Library as the example).
You, too, can have a Kansas WebFile link and button!
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Add a search box to the State Library of Kansas Databases
Ever wanted to make a page devoted to resources external to your library? Resources such as the State Library of Kansas sponsored databases?
Oh you have, have you? Well funny you should ask… here’s how you do it!
Log into the administration side of your site.
Click Presentation
Click Widgets
Find an empty Text widget
If you don’t have a blank [...]
HOWTO: Integrating your Library’s KLOW site with an RSS Screen Saver
Today we have a guest post from Thatcher Rea from Basehor Library. Enjoy!
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Thatcher ReaTechnology Services CoordinatorBasehor Community LibraryHopefully your decision to use KLOW for your library website has been an incredibly enjoyable experience – Basehor Library’s move meant not only could we more quickly publish content to our website, we could have multiple librarians and [...]
Idea for post: What the director is reading
P.J. Capps, director of the Atchison Public Library has a great post on her KLOW site entitled “What the Library Director is Reading.” What a great way to get the community involved! She’s got a lively conversation going with her patrons about what she’s reading and what they are reading.
What other kinds of posts really [...]
Keep it fresh!
How do you keep people interested in your site? Fresh content!
I have heard varying opinions about the minimum frequency for new posts. Some people think you should add new content every day. I, however, think that if a rural library is adding new content once per week, that’s great!
What types of content are KLOW libraries [...]
