by Leah Langby | Dec 8, 2025 | Learning Loop
As part of our contract with REALiving EAP, from now until December 21 we have access to the recorded webinar Feedback That Actually Works by Jesseca Erb. You’ll have to sign in with your library email address to access the recording. Slides are here: ...
by Leah Langby | Nov 12, 2025 | Learning Loop
For the first time in nearly two decades, the national Public Library Association Conference will be held in Minneapolis at the Minneapolis Convention Center March 31-April 3* this spring! IFLS has budgeted some funds to provide scholarships and other assistance to...
by Leah Langby | Nov 12, 2025 | Learning Loop
REALiving (the Employee Assistance Program) provides IFLS with two free trainings as part of our yearly subscription. The first one will be available for 2 weeks only, from 11/12-11/25. Handling Difficult Conversations Like a Champion with Jesseca Erb is available...
by Leah Langby | Nov 7, 2025 | Keeping Up With Kids
CSLP (Collaborative Summer Library Program) Manual Access The Collaborative Summer Library Program is a multi-state effort to make planning for summer easier for public libraries. One of the products that the CSLP provides is a Manual that includes programming ideas...
by Leah Langby | Oct 16, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Katelyn Is Out on Maternity Leave As of Friday October 17 Katelyn is out on maternity leave! If you need any help with delivery, administration, strategic planning, adult services, etc., your best point of contact is going to be the IFLS HelpDesk. Science Kits for...
by Leah Langby | Sep 12, 2025 | Keeping Up With Kids
It’s a rough and confusing time to be alive. I appreciate it when I come across some guidance and ideas for how to talk about some of the scary things we are encountering with the youth and families we serve. The Western States Center has a lot of excellent...
by Leah Langby | Aug 27, 2025 | Keeping Up With Kids
Thanks so much to Shelly Collins Fuerbringer from the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library in Eau Claire for these inspiring ideas! This summer we offered a CD weaving project with the idea of stringing all the finished products together to create a beautiful wall...
by Leah Langby | Aug 15, 2025 | Keeping Up With Kids
I got an email from the Children’s Book Council today that you might want to consider: The Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader are offering a new “Keep Bans Off Our Books” kit for librarians, teachers, and booksellers in support of the right to free...
by Leah Langby | Aug 12, 2025 | Learning Loop
Christinna Swearingen from the Rusk County Community Library in Ladysmith received a scholarship to attend the Rural Summit in Anchorage, Alaska. The scholarship covered the conference, but not travel costs, and IFLS was able to assist with those costs thanks to an...
by Leah Langby | Jul 9, 2025 | Keeping Up With Kids
It’s the middle of the summer, a time when many libraires are in the thick of increased programming, larger numbers of kids and teens in the building, and when general mayhem and chaos is high! In case you are re-thinking things, as many people do in the...
by Leah Langby | Jun 27, 2025 | Keeping Up With Kids
Happy summer! I hope it is mostly happy to have your libraries bustling with activity and excitement about programs and more! I know it can also be an overwhelming time, and sometimes behavior from teens (and others) can be one of the tricky parts to manage. I got...
by Leah Langby | Jun 20, 2025 | Learning Loop
Both Darien Becker (Prescott) and Judy Kraetke (Park Falls) took the four-week online UW Madison iSchool course The Next Chapter: Programs and Services for Older Adults with instructor Angela Meyers this spring, and both wholeheartedly recommend the class to...
