Blogs
Keeping Up With Kids is Leah Langby’s long-running popular blog. She delves into subjects related to Youth Services from many different angles.
Storytime Break Activities in Altoona
Storytime Break Activities in Altoona Anyone who has spoken with me about youth services knows that I am a very big proponent of taking breaks from...
Raising Wisconsin’s Children Conference
Thanks to our friends at UW-Madison Department of Extension for putting together an excellent, free virtual conference--great to share with parents...
Resources for Games and Gaming!
The American Library Association's Games and Gaming Round Table have been busy! If you want to add some well-vetted board games to your circulating...
Guest Post: Goodbye Dewey? Rethinking Youth Nonfiction
Thanks to Katie Halama, Youth Services Coordinator, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, for this guest post! Katie received a scholarship from...
Practical Webinars for Any Public Library Worker (Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference 2025)
14 free, high quality webinars created especially for Wisconsin public library workers, it must be the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference! I’ve...
Public Speaking, Advocacy, and Difficult Conversation Help from the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference
The Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference is a FREE 2-day conference for library workers in Wisconsin on January 22 and 23. Fourteen different high...
ARSL 2024 Share-Outs from Heather Wiarda
Heather Wiarda from Amery received a scholarship to attend the 2024 Association of Rural and Small Libraries Conference in Springfield,...
Guest Post: Memory Kits, Libby, Dinos, and More! WLA Scholarship Report
Jennifer Mabie is the director at the Hawkins Area Library, and she attended her first Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference this fall,...
Practical Webinars for Any Public Library Worker (Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference 2025)
14 free, high quality webinars created especially for Wisconsin public library workers, it must be the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference! I’ve...
Public Speaking, Advocacy, and Difficult Conversation Help from the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference
The Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference is a FREE 2-day conference for library workers in Wisconsin on January 22 and 23. Fourteen different high...
ARSL 2024 Share-Outs from Heather Wiarda
Heather Wiarda from Amery received a scholarship to attend the 2024 Association of Rural and Small Libraries Conference in Springfield,...
Guest Post: Memory Kits, Libby, Dinos, and More! WLA Scholarship Report
Jennifer Mabie is the director at the Hawkins Area Library, and she attended her first Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference this fall,...
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Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference, intern program, trustee project, new on the website, coming soon
Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference The Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference is: a FREE 2-day conference for library workers in Wisconsin on...
Register now for Library Legislative Day, IUG scholarship, grants and awards, Transparent Language marketing kit, Annual Report support, events on the IFLS calendar
One of the most impactful things you can do for libraries: Library Legislative Day registration deadline is tomorrow We are lucky in Wisconsin. As a...
Annual reports data compilation, Library Love Story update, sustainability, coming soon
In case you missed this: 2024 annual report info From TWAM: This week, my IFLS colleagues and I will begin compiling data for your libraries' annual...
Library Love Story is ready, events coming soon, Happy Holidays! (No digest next week)
Library Love Story is ready to go! Library Love Story is our annual advocacy project. We collect testimonials from library lovers and present them...