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Between The Margins - Library News

  MALA now offers On-Demand Group Webinars for Staff Meetings and Staff Development Days

Need a guest speaker for your staff meetings or staff development days.  We have the answer.  The Mid-America Library Association now offers on-demand group webinars for one flat fee.  You pick the date, and the webinar will be available for you to show to your group for one flat fee.  We also offer individual registration for our webinars - Workshop Calendar

Cost:   MALA/KCMLIN/GET CONNECTED Member Library:  $100/group          Non-Member: $200/group

Social Media Pros and Cons Webinar - Speaker:  Pat Wagner  (1 hour)      REGISTER

How to Break the Rules:  Offer Great Customer Service to Everyone Webinar - Speaker:  Pat Wagner (1 hour)  REGISTER

Whether You Call it Bullying, Harassing, Intimidation, Stalking, Threatening, Tormenting, Browbeating, Needling or Pushing Around, Make Your Workplace Safe from Bad Behavior Webinar - Speaker:  Pat Wagner    (2 hours)  REGISTER

The following two webinars will be available "Live" on the dates scheduled below.  Additionally, they will be available "On-Demand" approximately 2 weeks after the "live" presentation.

Meeting Deadlines When Staff and Resources are Cut  Webinar - Speaker:  Pat Wagner (1 hour)   Live on 2/29/12   REGISTER

How to Change the Dynamics in the Work Place Culture Webinar -  Speaker:  Pat Wagner (1 hour)  Live on 3/14/12  REGISTER

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MALA/KCMLIN Launches Self-Paced Learning at Your Desktop!!

MALA/KCMLIN, a leader in Professional Development and training is now offering self-paced online training at your desktop at a phenominal savings!!   You will have access to hundreds of different courses in the areas of Desktop Applications, Business Skills, Design & Media, Programming and Web Development and Anti-Sexual Harassment.  For less than you would normally pay for ONE course, you will have access to a large variety of courses for a full year!!

Take advantage of this special offer today!!  CLICK HERE for more information.

Children's Workshop 2012 MALA/KCMLIN's Children's Workshop has been scheduled for March 22, 2012.  CLICK HERE for more information and registration!!  Download Brochure.

Dates for 2012 Missouri Legislative Updates are:  2/2/12, 3/8/12, 4/11/12 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm.  To view videoconference CLICK HERE.

 MALA'S Metro Area Reader's Round Table Committee has chosen The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins as the 2012 Community Wide Reading Selection!!

The Hunger GamesThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins has been selected.  This is the first entry into Suzanne collins' futuristic, fast paced, science-fiction young adult series that includes Catching Fire and Mocking Jay.  There will be recommeded read-alikes, for this book in areas of adult fiction, adult non-fiction, YA Fiction, YA non-fiction and children's books.  This year, the committee has selected their book following themes.  These will be reflected in the programming and read-alike selections. 

Read Alike Lists

Programming Lists

Librarians’ Favorite Books for 2011

If you’re looking for some recommended books to fill your limited time for unrequired reading, how about these? Librarians were invited to contribute to Librarians’ Best Books of 2011 by Library Journal. The list includes both fiction and nonfiction:

  • The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
  • The Orchard: A Memoir by Theresa Weir
  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  • The Long Goodbye by Meghan O’Rourke
  • A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
  • Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran
  • Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan by Edward Girardet
  • The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht
  • The Call by Yannick Murphy
  • The Restorer by Amanda Stevens
  • The Wwerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

Iowa and Illinois Libraries Joining MALA/KCMLIN Get Connected Courier Delivery Service - now connecting to 587 libraries in 5 states!!!

The Mid-America Library Alliance/Kansas City Metropolitan Library & Information Network is excited to announce the addition of 22 libraries in Iowa and Illinois to the MALA/KCMLIN Get Connected Courier Delivery service effective January 1, 2012.  A warm welcome to our new libraries

IMLS LogoMALA/KCMLIN receives LSTA Statewide Grant for Show Me The World Get Connected Courier Delivery Service

The Mid-America Library Alliance/Kansas City Metropolitan Library & Information Network has received a Statewide LSTA Grant for the Show Me the World Get Connected Courier Delivery service for FY 2011-2012. This grant will again allow for all state funded Missouri Public Libraries to receive two day per week courier delivery service. This service connects to libraries in Missouri, Kansas and Colorado.


The Get Connected Show Me The World Courier Delivery service is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.

Updated OCLC Custom Holdings Groups for COKAMO Libraries

Creating Custom Holdings Groups and Custom Holdings Paths in OCLC makes processing your ILL requests a breeze in WorldCat Resource Sharing.

Learn how to create Custom Holdings Groups by viewing this online tutorial. Then use this list of COKAMO libraries to set up your own CHGs.