Blogs
Keeping Up With Kids is Leah Langby’s long-running popular blog. She delves into subjects related to Youth Services from many different angles.
Help Promote Virtual, Free Parenting Conference from UW Madison Extension!
I got a note from the fabulous Yia Lor (UW Madison Extension--Eau Claire County) asking for help promoting a really awesome-sounding, free, virtual...
Additional Resources to Help Prepare for Challenges
Libraries and schools in the US (and that includes Wisconsin) are enduring a tremendous uptick in challenges to materials. Deborah Caldwell-Stone,...
Monarchs!
One of my kids used to call monarchs "harmonicals" so that's how I still think of them. At a recent youth services check-in, Lindsey from Augusta...
Helping Communities Respond to Tragedies When We are Sad Too
At a recent youth services check-in, someone mentioned that their small town had lost four people to COVID-related deaths in the past week, and two...
Weekly Digest is a compilation of the best information that crosses our desks at IFLS. Edited by Rebecca Kilde, so if you’d like something to appear in Weekly Digest, send it to kilde@ifls.lib.wi.us with Weekly Digest in the subject line. Posts are deleted after six months.
Weekly Digest: Bins needed, events coming up, Bad Graph contest winners
Bins needed at Waltco! The Waltco terminal is running very low on empty bins. Libraries with an abundance of empties are encouraged to send them to...
Weekly Digest: important dates, virtual swag and a bad graph
Supply order due Feb 24 If you didn’t get the email with all the details and the form, contact Kathy at setter@ifls.lib.wi.us. (Reminder from the...
Weekly Digest: Legislative Day updates, new on the website, events coming up
Library Love Story: we broke 100 stories this morning! Keep ‘em coming! Any love stories I receive by the end of the weekend will go to Madison with...
Weekly Digest: Are you watching right now? And a flurry of other news and resources.
Are you going? It’s not too late! It’s the second day of the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference. These are nationally recognized and local experts...
Wisconsin Teens in a Mental Health Crisis
Nearly 60 percent of Wisconsin high school students reported at least one mental health challenge in the 2023 Youth Risky Behaviors Survey. Only...
Weekly Digest: 100 years, a survey, sign up for Weekly Digest!
Library Celebrations & Events Cornell Public Library is celebrating their centennial! There is a Silent Auction fundraiser with many unique...
Weekly Digest: bins, and posters, and deadlines, oh my!
Waltco Bin Washing Week - Aug 5-9 During the week of August 5, libraries will be asked to wash or clean all of the Waltco bins in their possession....
Weekly Digest: some fun news and notes
We’re smiling for Elizabeth Elizabeth Miniatt (D.R. Moon Memorial Library, Stanley) and her team’s proposal was accepted for both ARSL (virtual and...