by Leah Langby | Mar 31, 2020 | COVID-19, Keeping Up With Kids
Collection Development! This is a perennial topic and I’m excited to share some great resources. Top Thirteen Tips for How to Be a BAD Selector. 2019. Recording. Slides. Resources. Marge Loch Wouters joined IFLS for a webinar that focuses on collections for...
by Leah Langby | Mar 30, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
This post could be 20 pages long, there is so much great stuff out there about storytime! If you are looking for resources to help you learn some new songs and rhymes, think about STEAM projects, learn about using media, or just find some great blogs, take a look at...
by Leah Langby | Mar 27, 2020 | COVID-19, Keeping Up With Kids
Working from home is weird, huh? For some folks, working from home means we have some extra time to work on professional development. To that end, I’m going to try to pull together some resources on a variety of topics to help you if you want to really dig in...
by IFLS Staff | Mar 26, 2020 | COVID-19
Recording is here: https://vimeo.com/400619967 Summary is here (this has even more information about legal things that we added after the fact): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ndAe7Yze1EcomGs0rFeUbmuKWJQyAgFLyCq_FbRho-I/edit?usp=sharing March 24 Adult Services...
by Leah Langby | Mar 25, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids
Many thanks to Barb Krueger for sharing this article about grieving from the Harvard Business Review. It is an interview with David Kessler, who is the world’s foremost expert on grief, and it is specifically about our collective grief about the corona virus. ...
by IFLS Staff | Mar 24, 2020 | COVID-19
This, just in from Shannon Schultz – DPI At 10:30 a.m. on March 24, 2020, the State of Wisconsin issued a press releaseregarding Emergency Order #12, the “Safer at Home Order,” that prohibits all nonessential travel, with some exceptions as clarified and defined in...
by Leah Langby | Mar 23, 2020 | COVID-19, Keeping Up With Kids
Friday got away from me, and today nearly did too! I just want to post the link to a summary of the Youth Services Check-In we had today. If you want to listen to a recording (it will be listening only, there is no visual on this one) that is also available.
by IFLS Staff | Mar 23, 2020 | COVID-19
March 20 Director Check-in Summary
by IFLS Staff | Mar 23, 2020 | COVID-19
Here is a list of a few virtual conference sites out there. The first one on the list – Free Conference Call – is completely free and provides a telephone number that can be used to call into the meeting: Free Conference Call ( recommended , positive limited testing...
by IFLS Staff | Mar 23, 2020 | COVID-19
Continuing to conduct meetings in these times. The Office of Open Government in the Wisconsin Department of Justice has issued two advisories indicating that governmental bodies may meet remotely during the COVID-19 public health emergency and still comply with the...
by IFLS Staff | Mar 19, 2020 | COVID-19
The first in an intermittent series of blog posts detailing ways to keep up professional development (PD) efforts in these uncertain times. This curated list will also be posted shortly to the “Professional Development for Library Staff” tab found near the bottom of...
