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.
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...
Decodeable and Hi-Lo Collections in Baldwin
At the IFLS webinar Improving Literacy: Understanding Dyslexia and Reading Instruction for Librarians earlier this month, I was delighted to hear...
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,...
Guest Post: Live, Laugh, Learn: Nick’s 2024 WLA Conference Experience
Thanks to Nick Andrews, the library director in Elmwood, for this guest post about his experience at the WLA Conference. Nick received a...
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,...
Guest Post: Live, Laugh, Learn: Nick’s 2024 WLA Conference Experience
Thanks to Nick Andrews, the library director in Elmwood, for this guest post about his experience at the WLA Conference. Nick received a...
Weekly Digest is a compilation of the best information that crosses our desks at IFLS. Edited by Rebecca Kilde, so if you’d like something to appear in Weekly Digest, send it to kilde@ifls.lib.wi.us with Weekly Digest in the subject line. Posts are deleted after six months.
Spring delivery schedule, statewide advocacy, good stuff sprouting on the calendar
Spring is coming! So is the Delivery Study! The spring delivery study will take place the week of April 21-25. The study instructions, worksheet,...
Grant winners, Adult Services list and check-in, WiLS Idea to Action Fund call for proposals, advocacy update, coming up on the calendar
Congratulations, grant winners! Seven IFLS libraries received grants for either $10,000 or $20,000 from the American Library Association’s Libraries...
Advocacy updates, libraries in the news, behind the scenes IFLS edition, a tip and calendar summary
Advocacy updates Here’s a piece about IMLS funding cuts by WPR. The written article has more information than the radio piece. Small Wisconsin...
IMLS, CCBC choices, scholarship, Acquisitions Idea Swap and other calendar items
Shake up at IMLS There’s a lot going on right now, and it can be a little overwhelming. I’ll start with what we know. The Executive Order states...