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.
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...
Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities
I had a chance to watch a recorded webinar this afternoon: More Than Welcome: Libraries Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities, which...
Storytime Tips for Engaging with Parents
Like many of you, I love the content in the Jbrary blog. This blog started as a resource for hundreds of storytime songs, rhymes, and fingerplays. ...
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...
Winter/Spring 2025 Scholarship Opportunities
Thanks to a grant from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, IFLS is...
Guest Post: Supervising Part-Time Staff
Jamie Smith from Hudson took the UW-Madison iSchool's Continuing Education course: Strategies for Supervising Part-Time Staff thanks to a...
Introducing Learning Loop!
Welcome to Learning Loop, the new IFLS Continuing Education/Professional Development Blog. This blog was first created as a way to facilitate...
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...
Winter/Spring 2025 Scholarship Opportunities
Thanks to a grant from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, IFLS is...
Guest Post: Supervising Part-Time Staff
Jamie Smith from Hudson took the UW-Madison iSchool's Continuing Education course: Strategies for Supervising Part-Time Staff thanks to a...
Introducing Learning Loop!
Welcome to Learning Loop, the new IFLS Continuing Education/Professional Development Blog. This blog was first created as a way to facilitate...
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 [email protected] with Weekly Digest in the subject line. Posts are deleted after six months.
Deadlines with prizes, Library Love Story & Legislative Day, Feedback That Really Works, things to watch out for, coming events
Three deadlines IFLS scholarship applications for the Public Library Association Conference are due tomorrow! All public library staff are invited...
IMLS funding reinstated, local news, inspired by Palooza, added to WPLC, PLA conference scholarship deadline, end of year, opportunites
National news: IMLS terminated grant funding reinstated Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of...
Advocacy updates, surveys and opportunities, congratulations and calendar items
Advocacy updates State: Library Legislative Day 2026 (from WLA) Mark your calendars now for Library Legislative Day 2026 on Tuesday, February 10,...
PLA in MPLS, book vendor info, Article Index changes, CSLP response by tomorrow, two surveys, thanks, a free Tribal Lands map, upcoming events
Public Library Association Conference Opportunities In case you missed the email, don’t forget to check out the variety of ways you could...