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.
Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities
I had a chance to watch a recorded webinar this afternoon: More Than Welcome: Libraries Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities, which...
Storytime Tips for Engaging with Parents
Like many of you, I love the content in the Jbrary blog. This blog started as a resource for hundreds of storytime songs, rhymes, and fingerplays. ...
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...
Great Lakes, Great Read
In case you missed earlier notices about it, please take a look at the resources created for the Great Lakes, Great Read project, led by the...
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: free book, free training, return of Bioblitz, end of Explore MORE and Library Elf
Want a book? IFLS still has 12 copies of this book Quadzilla Finds His Footing by A J Dillon to give away to any library that wants them. Let Leah...
Weekly Digest: new on BadgerLink and the IFLS website and calendar; end of passport program
New on BadgerLInk! BadgerLink just announced a suite of new resources, with details about changes and additions. New on the list: Britannica School...
Weekly Digest: survey for you (yes, you!), nomination open, Passport question answered, and more
This survey needs you Half of IFLS library directors and only 11 staff have completed the IFLS planning survey. John Thompson would like to hear...
Weekly Digest: IFLS survey, Tip Jar, new directors, Trustee Training Week and Tech Days and 3 more not-to-miss news items
Request from John Thompson This is for everybody at your library: directors, library staff, and board members (directors please share with your...
Weekly digest: awards, Tip Jar, delivery study, grant, Banned Book Club, JAN, events
And the winners are... Congratulations! What a month! Five IFLS-area libraries won grant funding from the Flexible Facilities Program: Cadott, Fall...
Library Circulation Assistant (part-time) – Baldwin, WI
Due to a recent promotion, the Baldwin Public Library has a part-time Library Circulation Assistant opening! This position is 15 hours per week and...
MORE Support Specialist – Eau Claire, WI
Due to a forthcoming retirement, IFLS Library System is seeking an individual to fill a full-time MORE Support Specialist position. MORE is a...
IFLS webinar–Improving Literacy: Understanding Dyslexia and Reading Instruction
Tuesday, November 12, 1-2 pm According to recent data, only 37% of Wisconsin third-graders ranked as proficient or better at reading. There has been...