Staff

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Jim Minges
Director
jminges (at) nekls.org

  • Administration, programs, and services of NEKLS
  • Library administration
  • Budget and Tax Issues
  • Personnel
  • Policies
  • Board organization and operations
  • Facility planning
  • Community and Strategic planning
  • Library Laws
  • Statewide and National Library Issues

Laura DeBaun
Director of Administrative Services
ldebaun (at) nekls.org

  • Personnel
  • Employee Benefit Administration
  • Payroll and Government Reports
  • General Accounting and Accounting Software
  • School Library Continuing Education and Policy Issues
  • School-Public Library Cooperation
  • Childrens and Young Adult Services
  • Public Relations and Marketing
  • Advocacy Training
  • Vendor Discounts

Mickey Coalwell

Mickey Coalwell
Library Development Consultant
mcoalwell (at) nekls.org

  • Personnel issues
  • Policy issues
  • Facility planning
  • Collection development; weeding
  • Program planning
  • Friends organization
  • Statistics and reporting
  • Marketing library services
  • Strategic planning
  • Board orientation and training
  • Library law
  • In-service and Continuing education
  • School-Public library cooperation
  • NExpress automation


Patti Poe
Continuing Education Consultant
ppoe
(at) nekls.org

  • Library staff development
  • Continuing education event coordination
  • Workshop planning
  • Strategic planning
  • Technology planning
  • Online learning
  • Collection development; weeding
  • Personnel issues
  • Program planning

Heather Braum
Digital & Technical Services Librarian
hbraum (at) nekls.org

  • Cataloging
  • Interlibrary loan training and support
  • Kansas EZ Library Ordering
  • NExpress automation
  • Professional collection manager
  • Leased collection manager
  • Weeding
  • NEKLS web presences
  • KLOW support
  • School librarians
  • Online learning


Robin Hastings
Director of Technology Services
rhastings (at) nekls.org

Ryan

Ryan Sipes
Network Administrator
rsipes (at) nekls.org

Dan Alexander
Technology Coordinator
dalexander (at) nekls.org

Carolyn Little
Courier Coordinator
Bookkeeping Assistant
clittle (at) nekls.org

  • Coordinate the Kansas LIbrary Express courier service
  • Invoices
  • Bookkeeping

Teri Nelson
Staff Assistant
tnelson (at) nekls.org

  • Office receptionist
  • Assist with workshop planning and registration
  • Preparation of mailings
  • Maintenance of electronic mailing lists
  • Circulation
  • InterLibrary Loan management (not training and support; see Heather for this)

About the Author

Heather Braum Heather Braum is the Digital and Technical Services Librarian at NEKLS. She can be reached by phone, by email (hbraum (at) nekls.org), or through several online chat services (look Heather up by her email address). Visit the Staff page to learn more about when to contact Heather.