by Leah Langby | Dec 12, 2024 | Learning Loop
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...
by IFLS Staff | Dec 12, 2024 | Weekly Digest
Staff News WLA election results Congratulations to Katelyn Dubiel (IFLS) and Nick Andrews (Elmwood) for being elected to serve our state on WLA’s Wisconsin Small Libraries board, and to our soon-to-be IFLS staffer Jackee Johnson for her election to the Technical...
by Leah Langby | Dec 11, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
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...
by Leah Langby | Dec 10, 2024 | Learning Loop
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...
by Leah Langby | Dec 9, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
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...
by Leah Langby | Dec 6, 2024 | Learning Loop
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...
by Leah Langby | Dec 4, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids
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...
by Leah Langby | Dec 2, 2024 | Keeping Up With Kids, Learning Loop
Thanks to Katie Halama, Youth Services Coordinator, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, for this guest post! Katie received a scholarship from IFLS to attend the Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference. She shared insights and resources from a session by...
by Leah Langby | Nov 25, 2024 | Learning Loop
Jamie Smith from Hudson took the UW-Madison iSchool’s Continuing Education course: Strategies for Supervising Part-Time Staff thanks to a scholarship from IFLS. Here are some of Jamie’s key highlights and takeaways from the course: Allow enough time for...
by Leah Langby | Nov 25, 2024 | Learning Loop
Welcome to Learning Loop, the new IFLS Continuing Education/Professional Development Blog. This blog was first created as a way to facilitate sharing by library workers who receive scholarships from IFLS to allow them to pursue professional development...
