The Southwest Kansas Library System (or SWKLS for short) van comes once every two months to switch out the rotating items that are temporarily on loan to our library. Included in the rotating collection are books, DVDs, audio books, and our newest addition, Playaway books. Playaways are all-in-one digital audio books.
No CD player or mp3 player is required when checking out one of these audio books, because they are the players. Each Playaway contains one full audio book and has standard easy to use buttons. All that is required when listening to a Playaway is earphones and a AAA battery.
The SWKLS rotating van will come again this Tuesday, so we should have a new batch of Playaways available for checkout very soon.
Our patrons now have to option of checking out magazines online from Zinio (also made available with the help of the Southwest Kansas Library System). The magazines are always available, there are no limits on checkout, and there is never a need to return any of the magazines you check out.
You can checkout magazines from the website, http://zinio.lmlibrary.org, and read them either on the computer or on your device.
Zinio reader apps are available for the computer, PC or Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8, Blackberry, and Nook.
There are currently over 90 magazine titles available for checkout. Here is a partial list of the most popular:
- American Craft
- American Patchwork & Quilting
- Astronomy
- Car and Driver
- Cosmopolitan
- Family Circle
- Food Network Magazine
- Martha Stewart Living
- Newsweek
- Reader's Digest
- Redbook
- Taste of Home
- True West
- Us Weekly
- Woman's Day
Tax forms
The library has always been a good place to find federal and state income tax forms, but in the last few years, tax forms, like most everything else, have shifted toward being available primarily online. The library does receives federal tax forms, but not quite as many or as quickly as in the past, and we no longer receive paper Kansas income tax forms at all.
Still, our staff members are always glad to help download and print the forms that are no longer sent out to the library. Printable Kansas income tax forms are available at http://www.ksrevenue.org/ and http://www.ksrevenue.org/iiwebfile.html has options for filing Kansas income tax forms online for free. Federal income tax forms can be downloaded and printed from http://www.irs.gov/Forms-&-Pubs and http://www.irs.gov/uac/Free-File:-Do-Your-Federal-Taxes-for-Free has options for filing federal income tax forms online for free.
Database Spotlight
This is all part of the High School Equivalency Center, which is one of several learning centers included in LearningExpress. The other learning centers include:
- the Adult Learning Center
- the Career Center
- the College Preparation Center
- Recursos Para Hispanohablantes - for the Spanish speakers
- the College Center
- the School Center
- the Computer Skills Center
- the Job & Career Accelerator
LearningExpress is one of the many databases available to Kansas residents for free on the Explore Our Resources (http://www.kslib.info/librarians/eor.html) page of the Kansas State Library website.
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