Category Archives: Events

Longtime WALA member and former president of our organization Jean Hatfield is being honored for her years of service to the library profession on Friday August 19th from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at the Alford Branch Library, 3447 S. Meridian. View the flyer here. On behalf of WALA, we wish Jean a happy retirement.

Please join the Wichita Area Library Association at Hyde Park Shelter for our 2016 Annual Meeting on Thursday, May 19th and share in library humor with Daniel Pewewardy! RSVP to Kendra Mork (kmork@goddardlibrary.com) by May 13th. Lunch will be provided. Cost is $15 for members and $20 for non-members. See the flyer for more details.

Kristi Jacobs
WALA President

Please join the Wichita Area Library Association at WSU Metroplex for our Annual Spring Symposium Monday, April 11th! We will be in 132 Sudermann Commons, which is near door C. See the flyer for more details, or check out the event on Facebook.

Kristi Jacobs
WALA President

Please join us for our holiday social December 11 at Newman University!! For more information, please check out the event flyer!

Kristi Jacobs
Wala President

Please join us for our Annual Legislative Luncheon on November 17^th at Terradyne Country Club! Jim Mason will present “Wichita’s History in Postcards.” Please see the attached flyer for more details and feel free to contact me with any questions.

Kristi Jacobs
Director
Bradford Memorial Library
611 S Washington, El Dorado, KS
(316) 321-3363

Hello Wala Members!

It’s time once again for our Annual Meeting. This year we are meeting at the Hyde Park Community Building on 201 S Greenwood in Wichita, KS. We would be glad to have you join us for a luncheon and business meeting, followed by a presentation from Roy Bird on Kansas Carnegie libraries. For more information, please see the attached flyer.

Hope to see you there!

Eric Gustafson
Wala President

It’s that time of year again!  Please mark your calendars for December 12th at 6:30 pm and celebrate the holidays with WALA.  This year’s event will be at Newman University.  For more information, please check out the event flyer.

Hope to see you there!

Eric

The Wichita Area Library Association would like to invite all library staff who may be new to the area, to the library world or to the profession to join us for a networking event. This is an opportunity to “meet and greet” and to get to know WALA members and learn more about WALA. You don’t need to be a member of WALA to attend!

Thursday, September 25th 2014 6 pm to 7:30 pm
Alford Branch Library
3447 S. Meridian
Wichita KS 67217

For more information, please check out the event flyer.

Thank you to everyone who attended the WALA Spring Symposium.  We had a great turnout and useful presentations.  For your convenience, powerpoints presentations from several of our speakers are provided below.

Wendy Johnson – Keys to Effective Websites
Abigail Crouse and Racine Zackula – Connecting with Social Media

Hope to see you next year!