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Monday Aug 14, 2023
Hays Public Library brings back Community Threads program for 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
Monday Aug 14, 2023
On this episode of the Post Podcast, Hays Public Library Communications Coordinator Callie Kolacny shares updates from the library.
Read about the Community Threads program on Hays Post.
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Fun and educational events fill Hays Public Library’s April calendar
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
On this episode of the Post Podcast Hays Public Libary communications coordinator Callie Kolacny shares details of upcoming events at the library.
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Hays Public Library connects community through various events
Monday Mar 13, 2023
Monday Mar 13, 2023
On this episode of the Post Podcast Hays Public Library communications coordinator, Callie Kolacny shares information about upcoming events at the library.
Monday Feb 13, 2023
Bookmobile, community events help bring Hays library directly to community
Monday Feb 13, 2023
Monday Feb 13, 2023
On this episode of the Post Podcast Hays Public Library communications coordinator Callie Kolacny and outreach coordinator Jake Mishoulam share information about recent activities and events.
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Hays Public Library Foundation plans Afternoon Tea Party fundraiser
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
On this episode of the Post Podcast Hays Public Library Communications Coordinator Callie Kolacny shares information about the upcoming Hays Public Library Foundation Afternoon Tea Party Fundraiser.
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Hays Public Library wraps year with family friendly events
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
On this episode of the Post Podcast Hays Public LIbrary Communications Coordinator, Callie Kolacny share information about upcoming library activities and events.
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Hays Library continues free tutoring for area students
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
On this episode of the Post Podcast, Hays Public Library Communications coordinator Callie Kolacny shares updates from the library.
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
School year programing underway at the Hays Public Library
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
School year programming is underway at the Hays Public Library as they continue to develop their technological resources. Communications Coordinator, Callie Kolacny stops by to share the details on this episode of the Post Podcast.
Transcript:
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Callie Kolacny
We always have good entertainment going on in some form or another. But I want to mention first, our foundation fundraisers coming up this Saturday. We've been talking about it for a couple of months now, but it's actually coming up this Saturday 630 to around nine tickets are still available, but not very many, we are almost at our max limit for our tickets. So if you still want tickets, you need to go ahead and either go to the library to purchase them or go online to Hayes library.org. And you'll see the little scrolling thing and click on the fundraiser and you can buy your tickets there they cost $30 apiece, we have had to have a change with our keynote speaker Marcy Penner from the Kansas sampler foundation. Excuse me, he was going to be here. But she for some unforeseen circumstances is not able to but we were very lucky to get Bob Dixon Bob Dixon was the mayor of Greensburg, after the tornado wiped out the town. And he's the one that helped really spurred the reclamation of of Greensburg and so I think he'll have a really interesting talk. And some I've had some friends that have seen him before. And it's we're very lucky to have been able to get him on such short notice.
James Bell
That's incredible. Yes, I've actually had the opportunity to myself to hear him speak and not not recently, I think it's been a number of years ago. But yeah, real interesting story and, and the work they had to do to put that town back together. It's just, it's incredible the planning and the forethought, but then also the work that has started to go behind it.
Callie Kolacny
Yeah, the direction that they took it into with being very sustainable. It's just really interesting. So we're excited. To have Bob Dixon come, we have will have a raffle a little bit of a silent auction. We've had some great sponsors and donations from a lot of wonderful people around the town. And so we're very excited. Yeah, it's gonna be fun night.
James Bell
Very cool. You know, I wonder real quickly before we talked about some of these other events, if you want to talk to us about why is the foundation so important to the library?
Callie Kolacny
Sure. The foundation is the fundraising arm of the library. So when we get donations and things and that goes through the foundation, it can be out anything from if somebody wants to, you know, give us $50, or write a check for any amount of money or some end of life planning types of things and trusts and stuff like that, that can all go through the foundation. We also have an account with the Heartland Community Foundation, so you can make donations to the his Public Library Foundation through them as well. And then that money goes back into the library for mainly non budgeted items, things, things that come up that we need at the library, but it wasn't something that was specifically planned for or budgeted necessarily. One of the things we've been wanting to do that we wanted to do was the bookmobile. Well, the foundation paid for half of the bookmobile the other half with thingies, Hanson Foundation. And so, our phone Foundation was able to without that money we would not have been able to have the bookmobile they also paid for and this was a budgeted item. But yet they were able to put money into the most recent renovation. And that was able to fund some of the you know, as you're doing a renovation, little things come up or you think, Oh, if we only had a little bit more money, we can make that a little bit better. Well, those kinds of donations from the foundation and from the Friends of the public library, those helped to get those things that were maybe just a little bit nicer, a little bit more fitting with what we needed at the library so that they're the ones that are doing things like that, by raising that money. And because they've spent so much money in the last couple of years on those big projects, we kind of need to refill those coffers. So that's a little bit about what the foundation fundraiser is about, but also just raise awareness that it does exist and why it's important to the library, because they can make all of those donations. Very cool. Sure.
James Bell
It's gonna be a great time.
Callie Kolacny
It'll be so much fun. Come on out, have some cheese and wine and little mini cheesecakes and lots of great conversation. Listen to Bob Dixon, maybe come away with some fun raffle prizes or something. It's yeah, it's gonna be a great time. Absolutely.
James Bell
Very cool. All right. Well, we got to move on because we got to talk about all these cool events. And this one, I'm curious what this is hummingbirds in Kansas. This is actually starting here in Boston.
Callie Kolacny
Yeah, this is today at 10 o'clock. And it's kind of a late addition. But we're going to have a man there to talk about the hummingbirds and their migration and habitats and how you can maybe attract them and when they would be in Kansas, so if you're curious about that, come on down to the library this morning at 10 o'clock. Also today we have our making sense of series continues, it's making sense of gardening, we'll talk more about seed saving. That'll be today at 530 this evening. Tomorrow, we have another program that we're just lucky to be able to get bicycling with monarchs. So the monarch butterflies, Sarah Dykeman, rode her bicycle over 10,000 miles, and followed the migration of the monarch butterflies through three countries. And she wrote a book on it. And she just happens to be passing through town right this week, and was able to stop by tomorrow at 530 and to talk about her experience, and she'll do a book signings. So if your sounds fascinating to me, I will definitely be there to hear about this. So that's tomorrow at 530, we are bringing back the cookbook club. So we'll take a couple different cookbooks each month and you can look through a make a recipe and come and share with the group that'll be on the third Thursdays at 11am. We've got a program on Saturday this will be before the foundation fundraiser, You've Got Mail, we're exploring letter writing through history. That'll be Saturday at 11am as part of our world language club, which is a new monthly program on the third Thursdays. We're gonna have Harry Potter night family night, we always do this every year. It's a lot of fun. This will be on September 29, at five o'clock, five, five to seven. So if you're a Harry Potter family, come on out and share Harry Potter family nights and then Oktoberfest at the library. We do our own Oktoberfest with a hot shots poker ban on the week, week and before the other Oktoberfest so that'll be on October 1 from 10am to 1pm.
James Bell
Very cool King enough poker? Oh, of course. Always good time. Like
Callie Kolacny
we're gonna have beer rocks. Yeah. Looks better than that. Yeah, sure. Cool.
James Bell
Very cool. All right. Well, I'm wondering about this the 100 books before high school 100 books before graduation. We talked I think very briefly about that last time, is that still going on?
Callie Kolacny
Well, this is a new thing, actually. Because we always we've been doing 1000 Books Before Kindergarten, that's been going on for quite a while. So now we're expanding it and trying to get the teenagers involved. So we're doing 100 books before high school. So that's for the middle school aged kids. And then 100 books before graduation for the high schoolers, you can register through Beanstack. So again, we're doing being stack, registering keep track of all of your books, and and win some prizes along the way. And just really trying to get you know, more than more interested in reading it can that can be a difficult age for them to be interested in it. So it's just a fun thing for us to do to try to try to spur them along.
James Bell
Yeah, absolutely. And while you're on your phone, download that Beanstack app if you don't have it, which is cool. Great. And you also use that frog to summer events. Reading stuff. Yeah. What's what you got a library I'm
Callie Kolacny
so excited about this. My we have a haze Public Library app, what you do is go to your app store, whether it's, you know, whichever kind of phone you've got, and download my Libra myl I BRL, Miley bro, and then search for Hayes Public Library. When you find that, then you'll put in your library card number and your PIN number. The pin number is your last four digits of your library card number. That's important I learned. Very important, you got to have that the last four digits of your library card numbers, your pin number. And through this app, you can then manage all of your library cards, say your family each you and your kids, they all have a different library card, you can put them all on the app. And it's so you can manage your all of your library card accounts. You can access the digital resources. If you like to read books through or listen to books through Libby, it's right there. You don't even need the Libby app anymore. If you like to use hoopla you still need the hoopla app. But if you find the book that you want, it'll take you directly to the hoopla app. You can also of course, search the library catalog you can place holds, you can place il l request. There's a digital barcode on there so that you can use in the building on the kiosk so that you don't need your physical library card necessarily. So if you happen to leave it in the car, and but you've got your phone, then you're good to go. It's it's it's a lot of it's great. I mean, it has everything that you could want pretty much for the library and you can access the library website, the event calendar, all of that through the app.
James Bell
I love that. And you know, I really like you guys are always so you're so tech forward and connecting all these things and hoopla and especially hoopla I love hoopla get in there all the time. But the digital resources and then to tie it all together into this like very cool and it's not intimidating at all. And if you do run into problems like like I did, you just contact the library. It's so super helpful. I don't remember the young woman's name that helped me out a couple of weeks ago but um, and she was great and very patient and I just felt like a fool because I couldn't make this work. And she's like, Oh, you just do this and this and this, but it was perfect.
Callie Kolacny
Well good. I'm very glad to hear that. But yeah, if you aren't sure how to download any of the the app or anything else hoopla things like come to the library, we would be so happy to help you. I helped a guy download the hoopla app the other day because he wanted to listen to the Hobbit. And that was the device that it was on. And so we downloaded it. He was good to go. It took very little, not even five minutes to get it done. And, yeah, when we want to help, we want you to have all access to all of these wonderful things that we have at the library.
James Bell
Absolutely. Now, there's one last thing we got, we got to talk about before we go this is early active reading, what is this about this is this kicked off already?
Callie Kolacny
Yes, it started in September. And it's a new program. And it's on Friday mornings at 11am. It's really for three to five year olds and kind of early elementary that aren't in school. And it's exercise the body and the mind. The other day, they were exploring the letter S and had big S's in tape on the floor. And they were using like little toy cars to trace the shape of the s things like that. So it does some physical movement, along with trying to work that into to the mind as they learn how to read and they learn their letters and things like that. So it's just it's a new program there. I also want to mention really quick tutoring, we do have our tutoring is back with the support, hey, students, and they're there and they're ready to help us generally from three to six. On Wednesdays, there's somebody there's that's at two o'clock. So if you want to bring somebody early than two to six, but they're great, they can really help with I mean, even even math, I mean, how many parents understand today's math.
James Bell
I don't, I can't help we had we had to hire a tutor because I can help my kids with
Callie Kolacny
math and you can get free after school tutoring at the library. If you want more information on it or to make an appointment, go to Hayes library.org/tutoring to go ahead and get on there to make sure that you've got to set aside time. But they also will do Watkins if they're not already busy, and they're upstairs on the second floor. All right.
James Bell
I love that. And what a cool program and such as such an asset to the community. You guys provide that for free. That's very cool.
Callie Kolacny
Yeah, we want to be able to make sure that we can help those kids in whatever the way they need.
James Bell
Awesome. Kelly, before we go, how can they find out more information?
Callie Kolacny
Sure, go to our website, as I've mentioned a couple times Hayes library.org You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. We're also on tick tock now. Tick tock or give us a call 6259014
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
As summer heats up so do Hays Public Library activities
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
On this episode of the Post Podcast, Hays Public Library communications coordinator Callie Kolacny shares information about upcoming activities.
Friday May 13, 2022
Hays Public Library readies for busy summer
Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
On this episode of the Post Podcast, Hays Public Library communications coordinator Callie Kolacny shares information about the library's upcoming summer programming.
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Hays Public Library celebrates national poetry month during busy April
Monday Apr 11, 2022
Monday Apr 11, 2022
On this epidsode of the Post Podcast, Hays Public Library communications coordinator Callie Kolacny shares the latest from the library.
Transcript:
EDITORS NOTE: Transcripts are provided by an automated service and are not verified for accuracy.
James Bell It's a busy spring as they get ready for an even busier summer at the Hays Public Library, Communications Coordinator, Callie Kolacny, and he stops by to share with us the latest from the Hays Public Library on this episode of the Post Podcast.
Callie Kolacny National Poetry Month. And we really liked poetry at the library. So we've got several programs coming up. We had the Kansas Poet Laureate at the library last Saturday, so this past weekend to do a poetry reading and that went really well. It was really great to have him here in Hays, and then coming up on the 18th. So next Monday is haiku poetry days, you can come and present some haiku poetry listen to other haiku poetry that will be at five o'clock on Monday, the 18th. Then we also, of course, have our annual poetry contest. This is the 22nd year for the poetry contest, it will be on April 22, at 6pm. In the last two years, because of the pandemic, we did an online version of this, but we're back to in person now. So you will bring your original poem, and you can only do one poem. So bring your original poem, please bring four copies of that poem. Present that at the library. It'll start at 6pm on the 22nd. And it'll be judged and the winners will, there'll be some prizes for the winners, all poetry that submitted will be printed into the journal mirrors, which is a journal of all the poetry. This is for ages 16 and older, as I said, one poem, one original poem, and come and join us on April 22. Evening of your don't write poetry, just come and listen and find out there's amazing poets in this community.
James Bell Truly, truly, there is, you know, I So are they gonna, if you if you're wanting to participate, then when do you have to read the poet poem out loud? Or to the group? Or can you sneak
Callie Kolacny in and just sneak it in? I think that they want you to present it. I don't know if that is an actual requirement or not. I didn't ask that question. So I'm not positive on that. I think that the the goal is to have you present your poetry, and also bring other poetry because there'll be a period of time when when everybody's done before the judges have decided that there's gonna be an open mic. So, you know, bring some other poetry, whether it's yours or somebody else's, just bring some other poetry to, to read and entertain.
James Bell Yeah, very cool. And you know, if you ever been to a poetry reading, I know, I know, when I think about it. I think about poetry readings, I remember back to college going through sent some really dull stuff, but these are, these are fun. My wife, who's an English teacher, you know, she works with the English group down there, and they do poetry stuff all the time. And they just have a blast. It's crazy how much fun they have.
Callie Kolacny Yeah, I mean, some of its serious. Some of it's funny, you just never know what you're going to get. So it's very entertaining.
James Bell Absolutely. And again, that's coming up on April 22. At six o'clock, the Haiku Poetry Day.
Callie Kolacny April 18. Yes, at five o'clock. Very cool.
James Bell You've also got a for those kiddos. I think you're in contests coming up, right?
Callie Kolacny Yeah, we are partnering with cost of the High Plains. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. And so we decided to do a coloring contest just to recognize this month. And so we are providing the, we're the location where you pick up the coloring sheets, everybody's going to do the same picture. And then we'll have three age groups, zero to five, six to 11 and 12, to 18. And so you pick up your sheets, you have to have them returned to the library by April 22. And they will be displayed at the spring Artwalk on April 30. There will be winners classes, providing gift baskets for each of the age groups, for the winners in those age groups. And it's just it's a great way we love to partner with community organizations. So we're very proud to partner with Casa on this project.
James Bell Yeah, that's awesome what and when you talk about an impactful and worthwhile organization who Casa those the what they do is is tremendously demanding but also very, very much needed.
Callie Kolacny Yes, very much so and so and that you know, they're right across the street from the libraries though it's a great partnership with them and so we're really happy to work with them and hope that we get lots of people come come pick up your the coloring sheet it is you find them on the second floor, there's some of the children's desks and some of the why a desk and come pick them up. Just make sure that you have them returned by April 22. So that we can judge them the next week and we'll have some winners and everything will be announced later that that next week.
James Bell Very cool. Very cool. Well now moving on into some of the regular events going on. I love these these making sense of and you got a pretty cool one coming up. Oh goodness is this tonight?
Callie Kolacny Tomorrow? Tomorrow? Yep. Tomorrow making sense of mushrooms with professors Mike from professors is going to be there to talk about the mushrooms that they grow, figuring out how to teach you how to grow them, how to cook with them, just different things you can do with mushrooms, so making sense of mushrooms, with professors will be at tomorrow at 530. It'll be at the it's at the library, not at professors. And that's a library. So yeah, that it'll be a fun these, these programs have been great. And they've been well attended and so excited to have another one, we are going to continue them through the summer as well. So we're, we're excited to have more of these programs. So that'll be tomorrow night at 530. And then we're having DIY seasonings on Thursday night at six o'clock. So you can learn how to make your own seasoning mixtures and things like that. We'll have our painting class. So that'll be April 19, at 6pm. So that's next week, then we're going to have a viewing of everything is illuminated, followed by a discussion on April 24. At 6pm. It's for this month is also Holocaust remembrance. And so this is a program that is based on that. So everything is illuminated will be followed by discussion by Amber nickel. She's the one that did our Ukrainepresentation.
James Bell She joined us on the show here last week.
Callie Kolacny Yeah, and the Holocaust is one also one of her areas of expertise. So she will be in following are leading that discussion of that viewing. We will have a family storytime on April 23 at 10 a m, that's a great opportunity for people who are working during the week and can't come to storytimes with their kiddos, this is a nice Saturday for them to come to a storytime that'll be again April 23. At 10am. We also have the as I said, the spring Artwalk will be April 30, we'll have some that's going to be another Saturday all day come and go thing throughout downtown Hayes. So we will have some jazz music for an hour at 130 to 230. So you can come and enjoy some jazz music at the library while you're doing the spring Art Walk. Of course, Star Wars Day May the fourth so we always do something for Star Wars days. So we'll have some kind of a program at four o'clock on May the fourth and then we've got a program, the Hayes Arts Council is bringing this group to town laughing matters. And they're going to do a presentation at the library. It's a variety show, that'll be on May the fifth at 6:30pm.
James Bell Awesome, awesome. You can find about more about these events, you have a really pretty cool calendar on your website, right?
Callie Kolacny We do we have a great calendar on the website, just go to his library.org. And up at the top, there's events and then go to the calendar. That's the one that's updated all the time. We also have these our program booklets. And, of course, the the one that we did, it was January through April. So it's you know, almost the end of that one. So put together the summer one is more of a magazine style, it's a little bit bigger than the other ones have been because we have a lot of programs coming up in the summer. So that will be coming out later this month. So be on the lookout for that. And that is also available on the website. So you can you can still find the one that's for this current time period on the website. But then this new one will be on there as well.
James Bell Very cool. You mentioned the summer is coming up, are you going to have your Beanstack challenges coming back as well are the summer challenge.
Callie Kolacny You know, some people just call us, you know, summer reading, but it's more than just reading. So we kind of call ours the summer challenge. It is coming up registration will begin may 1, and you can register through Beanstack or at the library. But you do have to register in order to be eligible to win any of the prizes. So we'll talk a lot more about this next month. But do want to let people know this is coming up. You can register beginning meet may 1, if you need help with the Beanstack in the online things, just talked to the staff at the library. We know how to do this, how to get you set up, we'd be happy to create your account for you. But it's gonna be a lot of fun. The theme this year is oceans of possibilities. So a lot of things about oceans, which is not very, you know, common around here, obviously. But it's fascinating. And it's interesting. We're doing a big project with the Sternberg museum as well. So I'll have more information on that next month. So just be ready. Be ready for summer challenge.
James Bell Very cool. Look forward to hearing about that one. Now. We got a holiday coming up. Is it gonna affect your hours down there at the library as we do close?
Callie Kolacny For Good Friday, we close at noon. So this coming Friday, we will be closing at noon and then we will be closed on Sunday for Easter. We will be open on Saturday though so you can still come on Saturday but close Friday at noon and all day on Sunday.
James Bell Okay, so make that note. If you're looking to head down to library Friday and Saturday, you're gonna have those limited hours. All righty, Kelly, well, we've got just about 30 seconds or so left. If people want to find out more about what's going on to library what's the best way for him to do so.
Callie Kolacny Follow us on social media. I try to post a lot of stuff on social media about what's coming up. So Facebook, Twitter and Instagram just look for his public library. Also, the website has lots of information. He's library.org. As I said, you can get those event calendars and just other things on the website. And if you need information you want to talk to somebody 6259014 Is the phone number happy to talk to you
James Bell Very good Callie as always thanks for joining us great to see us.
Callie Kolacny Everybody have a wonderful Easter.
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Hays Public Library offers a variety of events during coming weeks
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
Tuesday Mar 15, 2022
On this episode of the Post Podcast, Hays Public Library communication coordinator Callie Kolacny shares updates from the library.
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Area leaders to gather in Hays for Legislative Coffee
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
On this episode of the Post Podcast, Hays Chamber president and CEO Sarah Wasinger and Hays Public Library communications coordinator Callie Kolacny share information about the upcoming Legislative Coffee sessions in Hays.
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friends of the Hays Public Library invites public to annual meeting
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
On this episode of the Post Podcast, Hays Public Library communication coordinator Callie Kolacny shares information about the upcoming Friends of the Hays Public Library annual meeting.
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Summer activities continue at the Hays Public Library
Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
On this episode of the Post Podcast Hays Public Library communications coordinator Callie Kolacny shares the latest from the library.
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Hays Public Library remodel ribbon cutting set for Friday
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
On this episode of the Post Podcast Hays Public Library communications coordinator, Callie Kolacny shares the latest from the library.
Monday May 10, 2021
Hays Public Library remodel complete; summer programming planned
Monday May 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
On this episode of the Post Podcast, Hays Public Library communications coordinator Callie Kolacny shares the latest news from the library.
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Hays Public Library remodel nears completion
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
Tuesday Apr 06, 2021
On this episode of the Post Podcast Hays Public Library communications coordinator, Callie Kolacny shares the latest news from the library.
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Construction continues during Hays Public Library remodel
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
On this episode of the Post Podcast Hays Public Library communications coordinator Callie Kolacny shares the latest from the Hays Public Library.
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Construction; COVID impacts Hays Public Library services
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
On this episode of the Post Podcast, Hays Public Library Communications coordination Callie Kolacny shares updates from the Library.