Lindsborg Community LibraryPosted on by LibraryStaff
This year’s festival is only 2 days away & we are excited to see you at the Library!
The Library will be open Friday, October 17, 10AM – 6PM & Saturday, October 18, 10AM – 4PM. During all open hours, we will offer come-and-go style activities for the young & young at heart: a scavenger hunt (with scratch-and-sniff bookmark prizes), coloring stations, puzzle table & more! Hyllningsfest also provides the kickoff for the Friends of the Lindsborg Library’s week-long book sale: gently used books for sale, all priced $1 or less!
On Friday, 3:00-3:30 PM, we will officially announce the Carol Ann Pearson Memorial with a short program accompanied by refreshments and browsing the first ways Carol’s memory is being honored at the Library: new furnishings for the Children’s Area and the first round of at least 10 years’ worth of book & program enhancement for children & youth services. Her memorial will also provide for the remodeling costs of the teen space in the Library Building Project, providing significant support for Phase 2 construction costs as a whole. Please come visit with them as we celebrate Carol’s life and look to enhance library services in grateful honor of her memory!
On Saturday, be sure to come for the Grand Parade, starting at 10AM. Watch for the Dala Librarians — we hope to see you there!
Lindsborg Community LibraryPosted on by LibraryStaff
We are so excited to announce that the first construction phase of our building project is almost complete — they just took down the plastic sheeting so you can start to catch a glimpse!
This means that we will be resetting the Library into the expanded layout. Stock up on your library materials now because we will be closed starting Thursday, July 17. The tentative plan is to complete the reset by Wednesday, July 23, but that is subject to change depending on how quickly it all comes together.
Thursday will be Librarians only, as we continue working with our electrician & technology consultants on final details.
Starting Friday, we are looking for volunteers to help us with the reset: tasks will include moving bookcases, moving library collections, moving overhead signs, and more. Both youth (age 12+ if unaccompanied) & adults are welcome come-and-go style, 10AM – 6PM. Librarians will break for lunch midday & volunteers are welcome to join us for pizza!
This will also be the tentative schedule for Saturday & Monday – Wednesday, subject to how much work is completed each day. We will keep you updated on our progress & when we are able to reopen, serving our community out of the new expanded library!
Lindsborg Community LibraryPosted on by LibraryStaff
Construction Update: Phase One of Construction is nearly complete! Painting and flooring is now done, with just finishing touches remaining. Tech consultants from South Central Kansas Library System (SCKLS) were onsite two days last week for data punch downs, preparing the network for expanded use in both staff spaces and expanded public wifi service.
Librarians have been given the all clear to begin moving into the areas that are complete, so staff spaces are beginning to be set up and used. At this point, we are waiting on delivery of the circulation desk and break room cabinetry, which are scheduled to arrive this week.
With only the finishing touches left to be completed, we are now planning the move from the Library’s current reduced layout into our updated, expanded layout. This move is tentatively planned for July 17-22 and will require the Library to be temporarily closed. We will do our best to be completed as quickly as possible to reduce the number of days the Library is closed; however, we also will be balancing that with making sure we take sufficient time to reset the Library building for expanded service. Volunteer opportunities will be announced within the next week as plans are confirmed.
E-Library Changes: In October 2012, our Library joined the Sunflower e-Library Consortium to provide an e-Library option for our patrons; in June 2021, this expanded to Hoopla services. After discussion at the May and June meetings, the Library Board decided to discontinue Hoopla services due to unsustainable funding concerns. For reference, Hoopla expenses for the past 4 years are greater than the expenses incurred for 13 years of participation in the Sunflower e-Library. For January – June 2025, twice as many patrons used the Sunflower e-Library as those who used Hoopla and the physical library collections still have the strongest circulation statistics by far, in both number of items used and number of patrons served.
Even when statistics clearly support the Board decision to end Hoopla services, we realize that this comes as a disappointment to our patrons who have used the Hoopla e-Library service. With that in mind, we want to assure patrons that the Library Board is committed to continuing e-Library services through participation in the Sunflower e-Library Consortium, most commonly accessed via the Libby app. Librarians are planning tech talks to help guide patrons in using Libby as an alternate. Watch for details to come!
Staff Changes: We want to officially welcome Seth Garretson & Ryan Holt to our Library staff team! With this expansion of our staff team to go along with expanding our library facility, we are excited for how we will be better able to serve our community!
Seth returns to the library clerk position after about a year working on other projects. With the building project in process, he has already mentioned looking forward to building more bookcases: Seth first helped assemble new bookcases as a volunteer in 2017, then took the lead with the mobile cases purchased in 2023. Next project will be the new bookcases ordered to expand the Heritage Room collections!
Ryan joins as a new library clerk, though with previous work experience researching non-traditional library services implemented in other communities. Ryan is an avid reader with the Library’s Libby app, so if you have questions on that library service, she is an especially good librarian to ask!
Stay Tuned: Although firm dates are not yet set, we look forward to celebrating the completion of Phase 1 Construction, our annual (though delayed) week-long book sale, and the end of Summer Library Program! All of these are anticipated to take place at the end of July or early August — be sure to watch for updates with details posted here, at the Library, and on our Facebook page!
