by IFLS Staff | Jan 30, 2025 | Weekly Digest
What’s up with long Libby holds? Are you or your patrons wondering about long waits on Libby holds? NPR Podcasts recently posted a YouTube video-short about this issue: Why is your Libby hold taking so long? How can you be “in line” to borrow a digital...
by IFLS Staff | Jan 23, 2025 | Weekly Digest
This means spring is coming, right? Announcing FREE Gardening Webinars and Activities from nationally known and Wisconsin-based gardening expert and author Melinda Myers for all Wisconsin Public Libraries to use in 2025. Melinda hopes you can incorporate any or all of...
by IFLS Staff | Jan 16, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference 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. Extra-fun to attend live, and also...
by Leah Langby | Jan 16, 2025 | Learning Loop
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...
by IFLS Staff | Jan 16, 2025 | Continuing Education and Certification
IFLS Staff Academy Hosted on Niche Academy, the IFLS Staff Academy is full of short tutorials about things you need to know: Using MORE and Sierra, Interlibrary Loan, Library Ethics, Youth Services, Collection Development, Trustee Development, and Administration. It...
by Leah Langby | Jan 15, 2025 | Learning Loop
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...
by IFLS Staff | Jan 9, 2025 | Weekly Digest
One of the most impactful things you can do for libraries: Library Legislative Day registration deadline is tomorrow We are lucky in Wisconsin. As a result of years of hard work and strategy at the state level we have bipartisan support in Madison for library funding....
by IFLS Staff | Jan 2, 2025 | Weekly Digest
In case you missed this: 2024 annual report info From TWAM: This week, my IFLS colleagues and I will begin compiling data for your libraries’ annual reports, with the goal of having as much data as possible pre-filled into your electronic forms once...
by Leah Langby | Dec 20, 2024 | Learning Loop
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...
by IFLS Staff | Dec 18, 2024 | Weekly Digest
Library Love Story is ready to go! Library Love Story is our annual advocacy project. We collect testimonials from library lovers and present them to our elected officials at Library Legislative Day (Feb 11 this year). Here’s a link to the Library Love Story form....
