IFLS article index

Adult Services

• Inclusive Services

  • Home Delivery and Outreach to Institutions
  • IFLS Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility
  • Resources on Accessibility and Inclusion 

• About Adult Services: go to the IFLS webpage for info about programming, accesibility and more
• Civic Labs
• Free Job-Seeker Resources
• Home Delivery and Outreach to Institutions
• Program Tracking: What You Need to Know
• Readers Advisory for All Ages
• Resources on Accessibility and Inclusion 
• Summer Library Programs
• Voter Registration Info and Resources

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Continuing Education and Certification

• How to access IFLS Staff Academy on Niche Academy
• Other Continuing Ed Resources
• Privacy and Wisconsin Public Libraries: Tutorials for Front-Line Staff and for Managers
• Suggested Webinars for New Directors
• Webinar and Workshop Quick Links
• Wisconsin-Created Shared Training Resources for Wisconsin Library Workers

Data and Statistics

• Annual Report resources: updated all year!
• Decision Center
• IFLS Dashboard
• Program Tracking: What You Need to Know
• Web Management Reports: New Interface

Delivery

• Courier Flag: Out-of-System, print on pink
• Damaged Item Form
• Guidelines for processing incoming courier
• Guidelines for processing outgoing courier
• Guidelines for Sending ILL Items via Courier
• IFLS Courier Delivery Schedule
• ILL (Interlibrary Loan) FAQs
• Materials Needed for Sending Items via the Courier
• Presort Bin Labels

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How To for Patrons

• MORE App Quick Start Guide
• MORE Catalog How to: create a MORE account
• MORE Catalog How to: Search, Save and Share

Library Administration

• Budgets

  • MORE budgets

• Collection Development

  • Challenge Support & Intellectual Freedom Resources
  • Collection Development: Analysis
  • Collection Development: Policy
  • Collection Development: Selection
  • Collection Development: Weeding
  • Decision Center
  • Labeling & Rating Systems
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• New Director Resources

  • Library Administration Timeline
  • New Director Orientation
  • Suggested Webinars for New Directors

• Planning Resources

  • Disaster Planning, Recovery, and Community Resilience
  • Library Buildings and Spaces (SEWI website)

• Policy

  • Challenge Support & Intellectual Freedom Resources
  • Circulation Information, Policies, and Contacts
  • IFLS Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility
  • ILL Policies
  • MORE Policies and Participation Agreement
  • Policy Examples
  • Technical Support Policy
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• Trustee Training and Develpment

  • Evaluating the Library Director presentation slides
  • Evaluating the library director presentation slides (pdf to print)
  • Hiring the Library Director presentation slides
  • Hiring the library director presentation slides (pdf to print)
  • Trustee Training and Development
  • Welcome to the IFLS Library System: 2024 video

• 2022 County Funding Request (Deadline and info)
• Advisory Council
• Challenge Support & Intellectual Freedom Resources
• Circulation Information, Policies, and Contacts
• Collection Development: Analysis
• Collection Development: Policy
• Collection Development: Selection
• Collection Development: Weeding
• Disaster Planning, Recovery, and Community Resilience
• Group Purchase Calendar
• IFLS and MORE email lists
• IFLS Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility
• ILL Policies
• Labeling & Rating Systems
• Library Administration Timeline
• Library Buildings and Spaces (SEWI website)
• Member Library Directory
• MORE budgets
• MORE Committees
• MORE Policies and Participation Agreement
• MORE Reimbursement Form
• New Director Orientation
• Policy Examples
• Privacy and Wisconsin Public Libraries: Tutorials for Front-Line Staff and for Managers
• Substitute Profile
• Technical Support Policy
• Trustee Training and Development

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Marketing and Advocacy

• 2025 Library Legislative Day handout
• About Marketing and Advocacy: go to the IFLS webpage for more resources
• Library Responses to Neutrality Issues-pdf
• Toolkit: Explore MORE 2024 Passport Campaign
• Toolkit: MORE app marketing
• Toolkit: Your Library Love Story

MORE

• Acquisitions

  • Change On Hold Status
  • Claim and Cancel Orders
  • Fiscal Close
  • Generate Fund Activity Report
  • Import invoices
  • Invoicing
  • Place Orders
  • Quick Click
  • Receive/Create Item
  • Send Edifact Orders
  • Status Reports
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• Cataloging

  • CABS

    • CABS: Cataloging and Bibliographic Services
    • Item Records

  • Manual

    • Authority vendor information - Backstage Library Works.
    • Award Notes
    • Item Record Templates
    • Item Records
    • Local Genre Headings
    • Local Subject Headings
    • Series Statements
    • Settings
    • Z39.50 Record Editing
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  • Serials

    • Serials Checkin Cards
    • Serials Claiming
    • Serials Editing Cards and Boxes
    • Serials Setup

  • Templates

    • Audiobook Templates
    • Book Template
    • DVD/Blu-ray Template
    • Game Template
    • Music CD Template
  • Audiobook Templates
  • Authority vendor information - Backstage Library Works.
  • Award Notes
  • Book Template
  • CABS: Cataloging and Bibliographic Services
  • CATCODE Values
  • Circa for Inventory and Other Item Maintenance Tasks
  • Create Lists
  • DVD/Blu-ray Template
  • Examples of Qualifiers
  • Game Template
  • Item Record Templates
  • Item Records
  • Keyboard Shortcuts, Macros
  • Local Genre Headings
  • Local Subject Headings
  • Music CD Template
  • Printing in Sierra
  • Serials Checkin Cards
  • Serials Claiming
  • Serials Editing Cards and Boxes
  • Serials Setup
  • Series Statements
  • Settings
  • Z39.50 Record Editing
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• Circulation

  • ACT 150 Codes
  • Cancelling Holds
  • Check in, check out, and renewing
  • Circa for Inventory and Other Item Maintenance Tasks
  • Circulation Information, Policies, and Contacts
  • Clear the holdshelf
  • Create Lists
  • Curbside Pickup Procedures
  • Damaged Item Form
  • Damaged Items Procedure
  • Damaged or Lost Item Billing: Sierra procedure
  • Filling holds
  • Fines and fees
  • Guidelines for processing incoming courier
  • Home Delivery Options
  • ILL Borrowing For Your Patrons
  • ILL Lending Your Items (ILL Holds)
  • In-transit lists
  • Institution Card Guidelines
  • Item Status
  • Keyboard Shortcuts, Macros
  • Lost and Paid Items Report
  • Manage outstanding holds/unfilled holds
  • Missing Parts Procedure
  • MORE guidelines for damaged item billing
  • MORE Reimbursement Form
  • Notices, generating and sending
  • Notices, sending by text message
  • Offline Circulation
  • Offsite circulation options
  • Patron Limits / Patron Blocks
  • Patron Records
  • Paused or Frozen Holds
  • Physical Parts Labeling, Ownership Labeling, and Packaging Policy
  • Placing Holds
  • Print Templates: Sierra Holdshelf and Transit Slips
  • Printing in Sierra
  • Procedure for Holds that Cannot Be Filled
  • Search for Missing in Transit/Missing from Holdshelf
  • Special Patron Records
  • Viewing Recent Circulation History
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• Collection Management

  • Circa for Inventory and Other Item Maintenance Tasks
  • Collection Maintenance Standards for MORE
  • Create Lists
  • Damaged Item Form
  • Damaged Items Procedure
  • Decision Center
  • High-demand Holds Report
  • MORE guidelines for damaged item billing
  • Physical Parts Labeling, Ownership Labeling, and Packaging Policy
  • Rapid Update in Sierra
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• Interlibrary Loan

  • Damaged ILL guidelines
  • ILL (Interlibrary Loan) FAQs
  • ILL Borrowing For Your Patrons
  • ILL Lending Your Items (ILL Holds)
  • ILL Policies
  • Printable example: ILL paging slip

• Patron Services

  • Brochure: About MORE
  • Brochure: Pay Fines Online
  • Curbside Pickup Procedures
  • MORE Catalog How to: create a MORE account
  • MORE Catalog How to: Search, Save and Share
  • MORE Libraries app
  • Paused or Frozen Holds
  • Placing Holds
  • Toolkit: MORE app marketing
  • Wisconsin's Digital Library and OverDrive
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• Tasks

  • Daily

    • Check in, check out, and renewing
    • Clear the holdshelf
    • Filling holds
    • Fines and fees
    • Guidelines for processing incoming courier
    • Guidelines for processing outgoing courier
    • Notices, generating and sending
    • Opening routine
    • Patron Records
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  • Monthly

    • In-transit lists
    • Lost and Paid Items Report
    • Search for Missing in Transit/Missing from Holdshelf

  • Occasional

    • Circa for Inventory and Other Item Maintenance Tasks
    • Notices, generating and sending

  • Weekly

    • Manage outstanding holds/unfilled holds
  • Check in, check out, and renewing
  • Clear the holdshelf
  • Filling holds
  • Fines and fees
  • Guidelines for processing incoming courier
  • Guidelines for processing outgoing courier
  • In-transit lists
  • Lost and Paid Items Report
  • Manage outstanding holds/unfilled holds
  • Notices, generating and sending
  • Opening routine
  • Patron Records
  • Search for Missing in Transit/Missing from Holdshelf
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• Using Sierra

  • Guide to Sierra Screens
  • MORE Glossary
  • MORE Training Tutorials and Videos
  • Record Numbers
  • Sierra Tips and Tricks

• ACT 150 Codes
• Audiobook Templates
• Authority vendor information - Backstage Library Works.
• Award Notes
• Book Template
• Brochure: About MORE
• Brochure: Pay Fines Online
• CABS: Cataloging and Bibliographic Services
• Cancelling Holds
• Change On Hold Status
• Check in, check out, and renewing
• Circa for Inventory and Other Item Maintenance Tasks
• Circulation Information, Policies, and Contacts
• Claim and Cancel Orders
• Clear the holdshelf
• Collection Maintenance Standards for MORE
• Create Lists
• Curbside Pickup Procedures
• Damaged ILL guidelines
• Damaged Item Form
• Damaged Items Procedure
• Damaged or Lost Item Billing: Sierra procedure
• Decision Center
• Filling holds
• Fines and fees
• Fiscal Close
• Generate Fund Activity Report
• Guide to Sierra Screens
• Guidelines for processing incoming courier
• Guidelines for processing outgoing courier
• High-demand Holds Report
• Home Delivery Options
• ILL (Interlibrary Loan) FAQs
• ILL Borrowing For Your Patrons
• ILL Lending Your Items (ILL Holds)
• Import invoices
• In-transit lists
• Institution Card Guidelines
• Invoicing
• Item Record Templates
• Item Records
• Item Status
• Keyboard Shortcuts, Macros
• Local Genre Headings
• Local Subject Headings
• Lost and Paid Items Report
• Manage outstanding holds/unfilled holds
• Missing Parts Procedure
• MORE App Quick Start Guide
• MORE borrower registration card
• MORE budgets
• MORE Committees
• MORE Glossary
• MORE guidelines for damaged item billing
• MORE Libraries app
• MORE Policies and Participation Agreement
• MORE poster - 2024
• MORE registration card: large print, double-sided
• MORE registration card: Spanish, double-sided
• MORE Reimbursement Form
• MORE Training Tutorials and Videos
• Music CD Template
• Notices, generating and sending
• Notices, sending by text message
• Offline Circulation
• Offsite circulation options
• Opening routine
• Patron Limits / Patron Blocks
• Patron Records
• Paused or Frozen Holds
• Physical Parts Labeling, Ownership Labeling, and Packaging Policy
• Place Orders
• Placing Holds
• Print Templates: Sierra Holdshelf and Transit Slips
• Printing in Sierra
• Procedure for Holds that Cannot Be Filled
• Quick Click
• Rapid Update in Sierra
• Receive/Create Item
• Record Numbers
• Search for Missing in Transit/Missing from Holdshelf
• Send Edifact Orders
• Series Statements
• Settings
• Sierra Tips and Tricks
• Special Patron Records
• Status Reports
• The History of MORE
• Tips for improving search slowness in Sierra
• Toolkit: MORE app marketing
• Viewing Recent Circulation History
• Web Management Reports: New Interface
• Z39.50 Record Editing

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Printibles and Forms

• 2025 Library Legislative Day handout
• Brochure: About MORE
• Brochure: Pay Fines Online
• Courier Flag: Out-of-System, print on pink
• Damage Report labels to be printed on Avery 5160 labels (pdf)
• Damaged Item Form
• IFLS poster for staff, 2024
• MORE App Quick Start Guide
• MORE borrower registration card
• MORE poster - 2024
• MORE registration card: large print, double-sided
• MORE registration card: Spanish, double-sided
• MORE Reimbursement Form
• Presort Bin Labels
• Printable example: ILL paging slip
• Substitute Profile
• Toolkit: MORE app marketing

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Tech and Websites

• IFLS website

  • Adding a notification bar: IFLS website

• Technical Support Policy
• Using Microsoft 365 Form App and Embeddable Calendar Tool

Youth Services

• Storytime

  • Child Development
  • Early Literacy and Child Development Resources and Ideas
  • Kits
  • Lapsit Storytime Templates
  • Preschool Storytime Template
  • Resources about Screen Media and Children
  • Storytime How-To
  • Storytime Resources
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• 1000 Books Before Kindergarten
• About Youth Services: go to webpage for more resources and information
• Child Development
• Early Literacy and Child Development Resources and Ideas
• Kits
• Lapsit Storytime Templates
• Performers
• Preschool Storytime Template
• Program Tracking: What You Need to Know
• Readers Advisory for All Ages
• Resources about Screen Media and Children
• Resources on Accessibility and Inclusion 
• State and National Resources
• Storytime How-To
• Storytime Resources
• Summer Library Programs
• Teen Advisory Groups

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