6/23/2025 - MORE Sierra update: Sierra clients will update on Tuesday morning (6/24). Sierra, the online catalogs, and Libby will be unavailable late tonight (6/23). Following the update, please report problems via the IFLS HelpDesk
A really great science booth at the Ridgedale Library in Minnetonka One more time-sensitive thing to mention about upcoming dates: Get your science geek on and participate in the Wisconsin Science Festival – right in your library! The Wisconsin Science Festival...
It’s been a busy week ( I can’t put off writing the grant proposal that’s been dogging me for months any longer)! I’m happy to be back briefly to report on a super-cool program opportunity that Patti (Durand) passed on to me:Star Wars...
Tiffany Meyer enlisted some wonderful community experts and partners, along with her own creativity, to make the Summer Library Program in Dresser a great success. There was a pop-up planetarium, a local herbalist taking kids on a lawn walk to spot common useful...
Thanks to Tessa Michaelson Schmidt for sharing this FREE and RELEVANT webinar opportunity! If you are planning to attend our excellent workshop about Futureproofing your library that morning, don’t worry if you can’t get back to your library in time,...
Eau Claire school librarians are an amazing bunch. Rebecca Hogue Wojahn, who has written several well-received nonfiction titles for kids, has a new novel, to be published next week! Malcolm at Midnight looks like a great read for middle grades: Malcolm, a...
Lisa Ludwig, director at the Colfax Public Library, got a grant from Dunn Energy to purchase an iPad and several autism-related apps for it. She is working with the local parent’s autism support group and the school to promote the iPad. One of...
I posted this over at the Youth Services Shout-Out Blog (Wisconsin Library Association’s Youth Services Section blog), but it was so great I had to post here, too!There’s a discussion on an ALSC listserv about science programs, and Nicole from the Cheshire...
Deb Nelson works in the children’s department at the Menomonie Public Library, and they are lucky to have her there! Deb’s kind, humorous and dedicated self comes across very well in her answers! How long have you been working at the...
Last week, the Hudson Area Library, in cooperation with the Teen Advisory Board, offered an after-hours Fun and Games Night at the library. From 6:30-10:00 pm, the 11 TAB volunteers and two adult chaperones kept busy running games, ice-breakers, and more...
Charis Collins invited Paul Vernon, a middle school science teacher in Menomonie, to bring his inflatable planetarium to the library in Colfax this summer. The kids loved hearing about it, and loved going into it even more:Then the participants spent some time...
Centuria had a great summer, with plenty of fun activities. One of the best days was called Roll Glow and Blow. Kids made sculptures and spray painted them with glow-in-the-dark paint:They also made some terrific bubble-machines using styrofoam cups,...
Most librarians in IFLS-land have had a chance to meet the lovely, exuberant, creative and wise Elaine Meyer, youth services librarian at Amery for the past…err…long, long time. Elaine–after helping shepherd her library through some difficult...
