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.
Updates from the Youth Services Section of WLA
If you don't already follow the Wisconsin Library Association's Youth Services Section Youth Services Shout-Out Blog, I highly recommend starting. ...
Youth Services Check-In Follow-Up
On Tuesday, youth services folks from IFLS and Wisconsin Valley Library System libraries had a joint virtual check-in to de-brief summer wins and...
Serving Young Children with Disabilities and their Families, Part 3
Wow, three blog posts in a week?! I guess the webinar More Than Welcome: Libraries Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities was...
Serving Kids with Disabilities and Their Families, part 2
Following up on my last post about the webinar More Than Welcome: Libraries Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities! Today we are...
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.
Weekly Digest: your questions answered, Chippewa Valley Book Festival,
Since you asked: Library Elf, MORE brochure update, and improved app quickstart guide Library Elf for MORE to end December 31, 2024...
New Richmond groundbreaking, IFLS scholarship for WLA, Passport prizes, free resources and webinars
You’re invited New Richmond is having a ceremony to celebrate the groundbreaking on our new library. I am attaching an invitation for you all to...
Weekly Digest: the best from our desks (don’t miss the important stuff)
Read the Weekly Digest to get the most timely information from IFLS! We aggregate and send the week’s important information for library workers in our system and send it out in a neat package every Thursday. Weekly Digest is also a searchable blog, and you can find it on the home page of the IFLS website.
Weekly digest: news, we need envelopes, big website changes, fund your brain, and more.
I hope y’all had a really good long weekend! Here’s the scoop. Libraries in the news Menomonie celebrates 150 years, featured on WEAU. Send your...
Thanksgiving Books
I recently got a question from a librarian who had weeded a lot of Thanksgiving books that perpetuate myths about Thanksgiving that are both...
Weekly Digest: book club kits, surveys, check out the dashboard, CSLP code drop, events
Help update and grow Book Club kits It isn’t news that book clubs are hot, but it might be news that your local public library is very involved in...
System Director – Ashland, WI
Location: Headquartered in Ashland, Wisconsin Starting Salary: $90,000 (based on experience and qualifications) Application Deadline: October 28,...
Marketing to Teens
Thanks to Reb for passing along this sound advice from Angela Hursch about marketing to what can be a very tricky audience: teens. Take a look at...