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Updated Database Spotlight: LearningExpress Library

Updated Database Spotlight: LearningExpress Library

Have you checked out the LearningExpress Library lately? Browse the WVLS flyer for Library Users or for Library Staff. LLE includes learning centers dedicated to: career exploration and preparation, college prep, high school equivalency, adult learning, and resources...

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Introducing Book Club Central from ALA

Introducing Book Club Central from ALA

Book Club Central—a new ALA initiative for book clubs and their readers—has officially launched and is ready to share with libraries and patrons! Book Club Central is an online one-stop-shop for book clubs, featuring everything from author interviews to book...

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New BadgerLink Webpage Layout: August

New BadgerLink Webpage Layout: August

The BadgerLink Team is happy to announce that in the beginning of August we'll be updating the layout of our homepage. The purpose of our website is to get you to our fabulous resources. So we moved some content around to put a spotlight on what we have to offer. We...

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Announcing the 2017 Youth Services Institute Cohort

Announcing the 2017 Youth Services Institute Cohort

Announcing the 2017 Youth Services Institute Cohort WI Libraries For Everyone Blog, Posted: 13 Jun 2017 09:32 AM PDT Tuesday, May 30, 2017 The Wisconsin Youth Services Development Institute provides professional development and networking for Wisconsin public library...

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Trustee Training Week and Resources for Trustees

Trustee Training Week and Resources for Trustees

Have you and your board members registered for the Wisconsin Trustee Training Week webinars yet? The annual hour-long webinar series is scheduled for August 21-25 at 12 noon each day. Unable to attend that week? Register for the sessions and receive recordings of the...

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Create Annual Report Brochures in LibPAS

Create Annual Report Brochures in LibPAS

Create annual report brochures for your library through LibPAS in less than two minutes. Customize the brochure to fit your library's needs: pictures, graphs, patron stories, project reports. The sky is the limit with what you can do! The Wisconsin Library and System...

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Meet Libby: Webinar for the WPLC Community

Meet Libby: Webinar for the WPLC Community

OverDrive is providing the WPLC library community another opportunity to meet Libby, OverDrive's new app for Wisconsin's Digital Library in a webinar on Friday, July 14th at 10am. If you're unable to attend, the webinar will be recorded and shared to the WPLC blog and...

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It’s time for outcomes, not outputs in library services!

It’s time for outcomes, not outputs in library services!

"Libraries are very good at counting outputs... it's more difficult to count outcomes," says Stacey Wedlake, research and communication coordinator for Impact Survey, one of several national projects developed over the past ten years to help public libraries jump that...

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Library Programming for Millennials: Upcoming WVLS Webinar

Library Programming for Millennials: Upcoming WVLS Webinar

A Pew Research Center survey from 2016 "finds that 53% of Millennials (those ages 18 to 35 at the time) say they used a library of bookmobile in the previous 12 months." Is your library providing programs and services for Millennials? Register for the October 4th...

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Audio Books ARE Real Books: How Audio Promotes Literacy

Audio Books ARE Real Books: How Audio Promotes Literacy

Audiopub.org has produced an amazing infographic "How Audio Promotes Literacy" and offers other resources for librarians and educators on the topics of sound learning and transmedia literacy. The Audio Publishers Association's interest in promoting the benefits of...

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Be Skeptical: The Wisconsin Senior Guide

Be Skeptical: The Wisconsin Senior Guide

Read the original SCLS Tech Bits blog post "Be Skeptical" by Kerri posted on June 8, 2017. There were some events in April and May (the Google Docs phishing emails, the Bed, Bath, and Beyond coupons) that had me thinking a lot about privacy, phishing and how being...

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Wizarding World Book Club

Wizarding World Book Club

Read and discuss the Harry Potter stories with anyone, anywhere. The Wizarding World Book Club is available free to all registered users of Pottermore, the digital publishing, e-commerce, entertainment and news company from J.K. Rowling. Libraries could incorporate...

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