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Use this page to find trainings on a variety of topics useful in all aspects of library work.
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New Recorded Webinar: Creating a Marketing Plan
Have you been tasked with handling marketing for your library, but don’t know where to start? Work is always easier when you have a plan. Fortunately, creating a marketing and communications plan doesn’t have to be difficult. In this session we will discuss how to...
Data Dashboard Dissection # 4: Storytelling and Advocacy
The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC), in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and WiLS, has launched a statewide data dashboard pilot that is running from September 3-December 31. WVLS is providing monthly “Data Dissection”...
Registration Open for Annual Winter Conference
Registration is now open for the 13th Annual Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference, a two-day series of webinars that will be held on January 22-23, 2025. Fourteen sessions will be available in four different tracks, including Management, Internal Communications,...
Privacy and Confidentiality in Wisconsin Public Libraries: Upholding Patron Trust
As part of a new bi-monthly series, WVLS is featuring information and resources on fundamental library skills in the WVLS newsletter and as a Digital Byte. This month’s topic is Patron Privacy. In the realm of public libraries, privacy and confidentiality are...
Data Dashboard Dissection # 3
The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC), in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and WiLS, has launched a statewide data dashboard pilot that is running from September 3-December 31. WVLS is providing monthly “Data Dissection”...
Data Dashboard Dissection #2: Library Budgets and Staffing
The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC), in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and WiLS, has launched a statewide data dashboard pilot that is running from September 3-December 31. WVLS is providing monthly “Data Dissection”...
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2024 Annual Report
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Data Dashboard Dissection # 4: Storytelling and Advocacy
The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC), in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and WiLS, has launched a statewide data dashboard pilot that is running from September 3-December 31. WVLS is providing monthly “Data Dissection”...
Data Dashboard Dissection # 3
The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC), in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and WiLS, has launched a statewide data dashboard pilot that is running from September 3-December 31. WVLS is providing monthly “Data Dissection”...
Data Dashboard Dissection #2: Library Budgets and Staffing
The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC), in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and WiLS, has launched a statewide data dashboard pilot that is running from September 3-December 31. WVLS is providing monthly “Data Dissection”...
Data Dashboard Dissection # 1: Library Cohorts
The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC), in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and WiLS, has launched a statewide data dashboard pilot that is running from September 3-December 31. WVLS is providing monthly "Data Dissection"...
Digital Bytes
Privacy and Confidentiality in Wisconsin Public Libraries: Upholding Patron Trust
As part of a new bi-monthly series, WVLS is featuring information and resources on fundamental library skills in the WVLS newsletter and as a Digital Byte. This month’s topic is Patron Privacy. In the realm of public libraries, privacy and confidentiality are...
September is Library Card Sign-Up Month
This September, join Idina and Cara Menzel, the American Library Association, and libraries nationwide in singing the praises of a library card. As part of the celebration, check out the many free resources on the ALA website, including digital graphics for your...
Technology
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Only you can prevent hackers from ruining our lives. Yes, even libraries can be a target for those seeking to profit off of disruption. In March 2024 Marshall Breeding, founder of https://librarytechnology.org/, wrote in his column in Computers in Libraries about the...
New! Staffing Changes Form
WVLS is introducing a means for member libraries to report staffing changes to WVLS. This form is for reporting new hires, current employees witch significant job role changes, departing employees.
DeepFreeze Public Computer Restore
Learn about how DeepFreeze restore software maintains a clean configuration for library public computers.
Princh Print Management
Want to get started with Princh print management at your library? Read more here!
Multiple Screens/Monitors
Many library staff have multiple monitors connected to their computers, but what a lot of people don’t know is that there are multiple ways the screens can be configured. If you right click anywhere on your desktop and go to display settings, it will show you your...
Windows Updates
In order for your device to stay up to date with the latest updates, the computers need to restart occasionally to finish installing the updates. Staff computers If you regularly turn your computer off at the end of the workday: leave your computer on on Wednesdays...
V-Cat
2025 WVLS Summer Math Adventure Grant Now Available
WVLS is thrilled to announce the 2025 Summer Math Adventure Grant, offering five WVLS libraries up to $1,000 in funding and 10 free booklets per age group to enhance math-focused learning this summer! Based on the Wisconsin Mathematics Council’s program, the Summer...
Registration Open for CCBC Presentations in Minocqua
Great New Books for Children and Teens Presented by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) Tuesday, April 8 from 10 a.m.- 2:30 p.m. Minocqua Public Library CCBC Librarians Merri Lindgren and Tessa Michaelson Schmidt will discuss this year’s best books for ages...
WAPL Conference Scholarships Available
WVLS is awarding scholarships for its member libraries to attend the Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries (WAPL) Conference, April 30 - May 2 at the Oshkosh Marriott Waterfront Hotel & Convention Center in Oshkosh. WAPL is a division of the Wisconsin Library...
New Delivery Service Begins March 3
As noted in Monday Mentions, the new delivery service vendor, Purple Mountain, will begin deliveries to WVLS libraries on Monday, March 3. Here are a few reminders and updates: We will continue to use the same blue bins and tags. WVLS will take care of issuing library...
Udemy Tote Bag Give-Away
Learning can be rewarding and fun! To create awareness of Gale Presents:Udemy courses among WVLS staff and member library patrons, WVLS is sponsoring a Tote Bag Giveaway for its member libraries and patrons in the month of March! Gale Presents: Udemy is an online...
YSIE Meet Up
The first WVLS Youth Services Information Exchange (YSIE) Get-Together for 2025 will take place in person on Wednesday, March 5 from 1 - 3 p.m. at the Tomahawk Public Library, located at 300 West Lincoln Ave. Light refreshments will be provided. After touring the...