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.
End of October Round-Up
Welcome to chilly weather! There are some things coming up in November that should warm you up, and some other information to share. I’ll post a...
Youth Services Round Up
Check-In Our first virtual youth services check-in of the fall will be on September 21 at 2:00 pm. I hope to see some of you there! I’ll send a...
Building Resilience to Hate and Extremism–Resources!
Polarization, extremism, hate groups, conspiracy theories, misinformation…it’s all pretty overwhelming and more than a little scary. Families,...
Teens and Mental Health
The Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) had some sobering statistics about teen mental health, including that: More than half of all...
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: Act 150 funding deadline, scholarships and other valuable offers, Adult Services check-in dates to save ++
Note from Reb: You’re awesome I’m hearing so many great stories about the start of summer at many of our libraries. Love that! So while you’re...
Weekly Digest: a chill week with only 5 topics
Tip Jar! Open Meetings Law: Walking Quorums – Beware! Be sure to educate your boards on walking quorums, which can happen easier than you think....
Weekly Digest: Happy Memorial Day! Tips and top picks, a little chatty news, Passport program ramping up, calendar
Tip Jar! Open Meetings Law Part II: When is a gathering of board members considered a board meeting? (from Katelyn Noack) Example: Frodo, Sam,...
Weekly Digest: *survey*, learning opportunities, notices
Is it just my imagination, or do the weeks go faster as the days get longer? Summer solstice is in just over a month. Zoom! Calling ALL Wisconsin...
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...
Art to Calm Squirming Bodies and Minds
I attended an excellent webinar yesterday through Early Childhood Education Webinars with Anna Reyner, an art therapist who is also an early...
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. ...
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.