Southwest Kansas Library System

08/18/2026

Are you ready for autumn? It's ready for you! Get yourself a pumpkin spice latte and head to your favorite public library to load up on this year's fall reads!

14 days until the BER months!

08/14/2026

Grant County Library in Ulysses, KS will be hosting their annual Fairytale Fair on September 29! This is a storytime extravaganza, featuring many different stories told by many different readers. If you are in the area, plan to stop by and bring the kiddos! ✨🤺🐉📖

05/26/2026

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In this webinar, we’ll walk through the tactics scammers use to gain access to older adults' money and personal information.

04/29/2026

You can find us tomorrow evening at Día del Niño at Beeson Elementary in Dodge City where we will be handing out bubble wands and flyers about all of the wonderful things our southwest Kansas libraries are doing! We're so excited!! 🥳 Have you visited YOUR library today?! 😁

04/28/2026

Member Librarians: Please join us on Friday, May 1st, for our annual Trendy Librarian Workshop! This year's theme is Exploration and SWKLS Collection Specialist Miguel Coca has planned an exciting day of discovery at the Dodge City Public Library! Grab your seat there at 10:00 AM (Central Time) for a fun and casual workshop where you’ll explore new ideas, tools, and techniques to keep your library skills fresh and exciting. Our keynote speaker is local celebrity, Chris Kirkham. Chris creates content that shines a light on southwest Kansas communities and their history. You can look forward to a Jimmy John's boxed meal during our hour long lunch break. We will finish the day with some amazing giveaways! Check the comments for registration info!

04/28/2026

How fun! Minneola City Library is gearing up for the Collaborative Summer Library Program theme: Unearth a Story and it looks like they're ready for a dino-tastic good time! We can't wait to see what fun they have in store for their patrons this summer! Visit your Southwest Kansas library and see what summer fun awaits you! 🦖🦕☀️

STARTING JUNE 1ST - SUMMER READING!!!!

Get ready to RAWR into reading - Erica & Kristen are ready to make this summer jurassi-cally awesome!

04/28/2026

Wow, Plains Community Library has been hopping! Check out these photos of all of the exciting programming happening! We love to see our libraries full of patrons. 😍 If you're in the area, stop in and see what's going on today!

04/23/2026

The theme of National Library Week is "Find Your Joy," so we asked all of the library workers in our libraries to tell us what their library joy is! We'll be posting these all week! Please feel free to share YOUR library joy in our comments! ⬇️ Dodge City Public Library

04/23/2026

The theme of National Library Week is "Find Your Joy," so we asked all of the library workers in our libraries to tell us what their library joy is! We'll be posting these all week! Please feel free to share YOUR library joy in our comments! ⬇️

04/23/2026

The theme of National Library Week is "Find Your Joy," so we asked all of the library workers in our libraries to tell us what their library joy is! We'll be posting these all week! Please feel free to share YOUR library joy in our comments! ⬇️ Rolla Library