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...
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...
14 free, high quality webinars created especially for Wisconsin public library workers, it must be the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference! I’ve highlighted four super-practical webinars that will enhance any public library worker’s job are below, but check out the...
The Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference is a FREE 2-day conference for library workers in Wisconsin on January 22 and 23. Fourteen different high quality webinars on a variety of topics. All are recorded, but it is extra-fun to attend live! I’ll be sending a few...
Heather Wiarda from Amery received a scholarship to attend the 2024 Association of Rural and Small Libraries Conference in Springfield, Massachusetts in September. She created a Power Point slides about the conference, complete with links to her notes and further...
Jennifer Mabie is the director at the Hawkins Area Library, and she attended her first Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference this fall, thanks to a scholarship from IFLS (funded by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction with a grant from the...
Storytime Break Activities in Altoona Anyone who has spoken with me about youth services knows that I am a very big proponent of taking breaks from weekly storytime. It gives you a chance to try new things, keeps you from burning out, allows you time to focus on...
Thanks to Nick Andrews, the library director in Elmwood, for this guest post about his experience at the WLA Conference. Nick received a scholarship from IFLS (with funding from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the Institute of Museum and Library...
Thanks to our friends at UW-Madison Department of Extension for putting together an excellent, free virtual conference–great to share with parents and caregivers, also great for library workers who serve youth and families. Take a look! Raising Wisconsin’s...
Olivia Moris is the director at the Altoona Public Library. She started as director there in 2024, so though she has a wealth of experience in libraries in Minnesota, she is still getting the lay of the land in Wisconsin. This year she received a scholarship to...
The American Library Association’s Games and Gaming Round Table have been busy! If you want to add some well-vetted board games to your circulating collection or to your programming toolkit, check out their recent Platinum Play winners, “evergreen titles...
