Please update outdated Library Love Story links!
If your library website has last year’s blurb for Library Love Story, these are NOT auto updated! Please change the link to: Library Love Story – Fill out form. If you need help, submit a HelpDesk ticket. Thank you!
Please stagger those New Richmond bins
Between the weather and Purple Mountain staffing issues, please help our courier drivers by spacing out those bins for New Richmond that you’ve been holding onto. In case you need it, their new name and address are: New Richmond Community Library, 450 S Arch Avenue, New Richmond, WI 54017.
Scholarships available for IUG
The Innovative Users Group (IUG) Conference — the premier event for libraries using Innovative’s systems like Sierra — is coming up April 13–15, 2026 in Chicago. A limited number of scholarships are available from MORE to cover your conference registration, travel, and up to four nights at the conference hotel. Conference details: https://www.innovativeusers.org/iug_2026.php
Updated or new on the website
- Paula at Eau Claire asked for a spot on the MORE Libraries app quick start guide to write down the barcode number, because usually they’re handing these out to people who don’t have their card. It’s updated in both the toolkit and in the Resource Portal.
- Resources for law-enforcement interactions from the DPI has been updated. You can link to the information on the DPI site or find it under Library Administration>Legal in the Resource Portal.
- Northern Waters Library System shared a cheat sheet and script, also available under Library Administration>Legal in the Resource Portal. I’ve seen some great examples from our libraries, too. If you’d like to share those on the website, submit a HelpDesk ticket for Reb.
Call for proposals: Play•Make•Learn Conference
The Play Make Learn Conference is a place for collaboration and discovery in the design, research and practice of playful learning, games for learning and positive social impact, making and makerspaces, STEAM education, and arts in education. PML creates an inspirational space for preK-12 educators, designers, developers, innovators, librarians, museum professionals, makers, and researchers to tinker together, share knowledge, and celebrate one another’s work.
The Play Make Learn Conference will be held July 9-10, 2026, in Madison, WI. The deadline for proposal submissions is March 9, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. (Central Time). Proposal notifications will be sent in April 2026. Submit your proposal at go.wisc.edu/PMLsubmit.
Katelyn’s back!
And in case there was any doubt, Lucy is adorable.
Coming up
Delivery Studies are now three time a year. Save the dates.
- April 13-17
- August 10-14
- November 2-6
These are on the IFLS calendar, and details will arrive in your inbox closer to the date.
On the IFLS calendar