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.
Great Halloween Cupcake Bake-Off in Phillips
Thanks to Linda Johnson, the new youth services librarian in Phillips, for sharing this fun collaboration. Leveraging her existing connection with...
The Power of Partnerships (guest post by Valerie Spooner)
I had a great chat with Valerie Spooner, the youth services librarian in Ladysmith, this afternoon. I LOVED hearing this story about the ways...
Thanksgiving Books
I recently got a question from a librarian who had weeded a lot of Thanksgiving books that perpetuate myths about Thanksgiving that are both...
Marketing to Teens
Thanks to Reb for passing along this sound advice from Angela Hursch about marketing to what can be a very tricky audience: teens. Take a look at...
ARSL 2024 Share-Outs from Heather Wiarda
Heather Wiarda from Amery received a scholarship to attend the 2024 Association of Rural and Small Libraries Conference in Springfield,...
Guest Post: Memory Kits, Libby, Dinos, and More! WLA Scholarship Report
Jennifer Mabie is the director at the Hawkins Area Library, and she attended her first Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference this fall,...
Guest Post: Live, Laugh, Learn: Nick’s 2024 WLA Conference Experience
Thanks to Nick Andrews, the library director in Elmwood, for this guest post about his experience at the WLA Conference. Nick received a...
Guest Post: Value of Volunteering and Connections
Olivia Moris is the director at the Altoona Public Library. She started as director there in 2024, so though she has a wealth of experience in...
ARSL 2024 Share-Outs from Heather Wiarda
Heather Wiarda from Amery received a scholarship to attend the 2024 Association of Rural and Small Libraries Conference in Springfield,...
Guest Post: Memory Kits, Libby, Dinos, and More! WLA Scholarship Report
Jennifer Mabie is the director at the Hawkins Area Library, and she attended her first Wisconsin Library Association Annual Conference this fall,...
Guest Post: Live, Laugh, Learn: Nick’s 2024 WLA Conference Experience
Thanks to Nick Andrews, the library director in Elmwood, for this guest post about his experience at the WLA Conference. Nick received a...
Guest Post: Value of Volunteering and Connections
Olivia Moris is the director at the Altoona Public Library. She started as director there in 2024, so though she has a wealth of experience in...
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.
Advocacy updates, libraries in the news, behind the scenes IFLS edition, a tip and calendar summary
Advocacy updates Here’s a piece about IMLS funding cuts by WPR. The written article has more information than the radio piece. Small Wisconsin...
IMLS, CCBC choices, scholarship, Acquisitions Idea Swap and other calendar items
Shake up at IMLS There’s a lot going on right now, and it can be a little overwhelming. I’ll start with what we know. The Executive Order states...
Scholarships, grants and CCBC Choices, plus news and events
Scholarships still available for WAPL The Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries Conference is coming up in Oshkosh April 30-May 2. IFLS is...
New on the website, coming up on the calendar
This is a weekly digest of the best that’s come across our desks this week. If you have news about your library, upcoming events, or information...