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National Friends of Libraries Week: Oct. 15-21
Celebrate your Friends of the Library group during National Friends of the Library Week set for October 15-21! Show how thankful you are for their passion and help as natural library advocates. United for Libraries will coordinate the 12th annual National Friends of...
Small Business Saturday: Shop Small November 25
Apply to be a Neighborhood Champion at ShopSmall.com/ALA Organize and host an event to help your neighborhood celebrate. It could be a kickoff breakfast, a welcome station, or a Shop Small® Passport event. Find more event inspiration at ShopSmall.com/ALA.The American...
Wisconsin Digital Archives: Link it to your website
Written by: Abby Swanton, Resources for Libraries & Lifelong Learning Make it easier for your users to get to the Wisconsin Digital Archives by placing a direct link to the collection on your library’s webpage. If you already have a link to the Wisconsin Digital...
12 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Libby
Original post from September 19, 2017 by Adam Sockel under Library, Promotional Ideas, Service News. Readers around the world have fallen in love with our new app Libby. The new interface, simple one-tap experience and all-in-one shelf have made finding your next...
OverDrive adding a History page the week of October 2nd: Keep track of what you read
Andrea Coffin, WiLS Community Liaison/Service Specialist. WPLC Announcement, September 20, 2017. Subscribe to the WPLC Announcements list to receive email updates. Hello! OverDrive is making updates that will add a History page to the Wisconsin's Digital Library site...
Today is Read an eBook Day!
September 18th is Ready an eBook Day! Read an eBook Day has arrived and we want libraries, schools and readers around the world to spread the #eBookLove! OverDrive will be giving away 12 Kobo Aura ONEs to readers, and content credit to participating libraries and...
Banned Books Week 2017
“Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” — Alfred Whitney Griswold, Essays on Education Banned Books Week:...
October is Health Literacy Month: Use ALA’s free toolkit!
ALA Member News Tue, 09/12/2017 CHICAGO – The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) and the American Library Association (ALA) have partnered through the Libraries Transform public awareness campaign to create a free toolkit for Health Literacy Month, which...
WVLS Youth Services Workshop: Save the date for Dec 12th!
Wisconsin Valley Library Service presents: Annual Youth Services Workshop Tuesday, December 12, 2017 Wausau Community Room, Marathon Co. Public Library 300 1st Street, Wausau 54403 / Map & parking directions School and public youth librarians from all Wisconsin...
WiLSWorld Shorts Webinar: Information Literacy Misconception Study and Survey Findings
WiLS is excited to announce the next WiLSWorld Short, quarterly, free webinars to continue the learning that happens at WiLSWorld all year long! These webinars are designed to do all the same things as WiLSWorld – connect our member community around important issues,...
Communicating With Baby: Tips and Milestones From Birth to Age 5
Read Aloud 15 MINUTES and American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) have collaborated on Communicating With Baby: Tips and Milestones From Birth to Age 5. The seven new age-appropriate parent handouts developed over the past several months in collaboration...
Tally Week! Schedule a “Typical Week” to tally statistics in October
Have you scheduled your library's annual survey week this October to collect data for the annual report? The annual report requires an annual count of reference transactions and all public computer uses. If your library does not keep an annual count of reference...
We Read Banned Books: BBW is September 24-30
American Library Association: Banned Books Week 2017: Sept. 24 - Sept. 30 Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned...
Back to School with BadgerLink: Resources for Educators
Neuman, Elizabeth. Back to School with BadgerLink. Wisconsin Libraries for Everyone blog. Thursday, August 31, 2017. It’s September and the BadgerLink team wishes to send a big “welcome back and good luck!” to all educators and librarians as you start the new school...
Job Center of Wisconsin: Update resumes, find job fairs, and find resources.
Job Center of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Libraries for Everyone. August 24, 2017. Job Center of Wisconsin (https://jobcenterofwisconsin.com/) is primarily known as a place to apply for jobs. But the Job Center website has a lot of additional resources for job seekers....
Support for the Clovis-Carver Public Library, New Mexico
We offer our deepest condolences to the Clovis-Carver Public Library, the city of Clovis, and the state of New Mexico as the community begins to heal. Public libraries accept and support community members and visitors without question and provide a space for...
Texas Library Association: Resources to assist with recovery from Hurricane Harvey
A letter from ALA President Jim Neal. Dear Members: Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who is being affected by Hurricane Harvey in Texas and along the Gulf Coast. We are supporting the Texas Library Association (TLA) and Texas State Library as they work with...
Autism Welcome Here: Grant Opportunity
Thank you to ALA Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) blogger Renee Grassi for the information that appears below. Don’t forget that Renee Grassi will be presenting a free Minitex webinar on “Developing Inclusive Library Services to Teens with...
WVLS Director’s Retreat: Save the date for October 5th!
Discussion sessions, table activities, camaraderie, and high-powered speakers! The WVLS Director’s Retreat is a bi-annual event that gathers all WVLS and neighboring directors in the same place for a day of learning, sharing, and inspiration. This event is open to...
Central Wisconsin Book Festival: A Marathon County Public Library event
Book lovers and others are invited to the first-ever Central Wisconsin Book Festival starting the evening of Sept. 29 and continuing through the evening of Sept. 30! The Marathon County Public Library is working with several community partners, including UW-Marathon...