Marge Loch-Wouters over at Tiny Tips for Library Fun is working with Lisa Shaia from Thrive After Three have created a survey for librarians to find the pulse of what is happening in programs for school-age kids. Take a few minutes to help out these generous and hard-working librarians as they do some research to help them do even more generous and hard-working things! Let yourself and your situation be counted! Fill in the survey soon, they are going to be blogging about the results soon.
Ray Pagenkopf from the Menomonie Public Library was able to attend the 2025 virtual Power Up: A Leadership Conference for Youth Services Managers and Staff Conference in February thanks to a scholarship from IFLS, with funding support from the WI Division for Library...
NOTE: This blog post was written by Nicole Witt, Youth Services Coordinator at D.R. Moon Library-Stanley, based what she learned from the UW Madison iSchool's Continuing Education course Sustainably Grow Your Summer Library Program. Nicole was able to attend this...
I had a heart-breaking conversation with a library director this week who was reeling from a two recent local deaths from suicide, and looking for resources for potential programming to help her community address significant mental health concerns. Lots of...