Blogs
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Keeping Up With Kids is Leah Langby’s long-running popular blog. She delves into subjects related to Youth Services from many different angles.
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
Guest Post: Value of Volunteering and Connections
Olivia Moris is the director at the Altoona Public Library. She started as director there in 2024, so though she has a wealth of experience in...
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...
Guest Post: Value of Volunteering and Connections
Olivia Moris is the director at the Altoona Public Library. She started as director there in 2024, so though she has a wealth of experience in...
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Update Library Love Story links, stagger NR bins, go to IUG Conference on us, updated/new on the website, call for proposals, Katelyn’s back, Coming Up
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!...
WWWW, summer planning, how to Libby, Love Stories, opportunities and resources, calendar
More reasons to check out the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference next week It’s been a favorite resource for 15 years. Something for...
Flurry of opportunities and resources
Top 3 reasons to go to the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference on January 21 & 22 It’s free. (Thanks to all 15 of our library systems.) It’s...
Library news, New Richmond hold dates, PLA conference updates, state media about libraries, coming up
The next Weekly Digest will be January 8. Watch your email for critical notices. I hope your winter season is merry and bright. Or quiet and dark....