Left to right: Cori Hundley, Shantry Miller, Shaylee Krueger, Desiree Saunders, and Nick Marlin
During this month of thankfulness, the Wyoming State Library is taking this opportunity to express our gratitude for the WYLD Support team. The team is led by Desiree Saunders, WYLD Program Manager, and includes Cori Hundley, Systems Librarian; Shaylee Krueger, Resource Sharing Librarian; Nick Marlin, Library Systems Administrator; and Shantry Miller, Bibliographic Services Librarian. WYLD Support Team, we are grateful for all you do!
The Wyoming State Library’s WYLD office has been a hub of activity through late summer into fall this year. The team has been busy traveling across Wyoming to visit libraries for training days, taking advantage of professional development opportunities through virtual training and conferences, as well as continuing to provide support throughout the WYLD library network.
Here’s an overview of what’s been going on, projects in progress, and events to look forward to in the future:
In July, Shantry and Shaylee traveled to the Albany County Public Library for an afternoon of cataloging training and interlibrary loan discussion. Later in the summer, Nick, Shantry, and Shaylee visited libraries in Crook and Weston counties where they met with school and public library staff about Aspen, cataloging, tips and tricks when inventorying, WSL resources, and interlibrary loan systems training. The trio visited Park County in September to meet with librarians there and from surrounding counties about interlibrary loan, Aspen, and cataloging. During their stay in Cody, the team enjoyed visiting the Northwest College library and the McCracken Research Library located in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Also in September, Cori conducted a webinar training highlighting Aspen’s key features and sharing practical tips with library professionals to make the most of what the software has to offer.
A large-scale project currently in the works is developing a more efficient in-network interlibrary loan (ILL) system. This ILL system project aims to simplify and streamline a better approach to in-network borrowing and lending with a preliminary testing phase currently underway. A wider testing phase is planned for early 2025.
The WYLD office continues to provide nonstop support to Wyoming libraries throughout by answering questions, assisting with original cataloging requests, offering training opportunities, and guiding libraries through patron purges, loads, and customizing options.
The WYLD Network is a consortium of 100+ public, academic, school, and special Wyoming libraries that shares technology and resources in an effort to make library materials and collections available to every resident of the state. Support from the WYLD Support team at the Wyoming State Library is available through their online support, email at support@wyldnetwork.org, via phone during the day by calling 1-800-264-1281, and after hours by calling 307-222-9453. Find a complete list of WYLD services here.