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.
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...
Art to Calm Squirming Bodies and Minds
I attended an excellent webinar yesterday through Early Childhood Education Webinars with Anna Reyner, an art therapist who is also an early...
Updates from the Youth Services Section of WLA
If you don't already follow the Wisconsin Library Association's Youth Services Section Youth Services Shout-Out Blog, I highly recommend starting. ...
Youth Services Check-In Follow-Up
On Tuesday, youth services folks from IFLS and Wisconsin Valley Library System libraries had a joint virtual check-in to de-brief summer wins and...
Guest Post: Goodbye Dewey? Rethinking Youth Nonfiction
Thanks to Katie Halama, Youth Services Coordinator, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, for this guest post! Katie received a scholarship from...
Guest Post: Supervising Part-Time Staff
Jamie Smith from Hudson took the UW-Madison iSchool's Continuing Education course: Strategies for Supervising Part-Time Staff thanks to a...
Introducing Learning Loop!
Welcome to Learning Loop, the new IFLS Continuing Education/Professional Development Blog. This blog was first created as a way to facilitate...
Introducing Learning Loop
This is a new continuing education blog, hosted by Leah Langby.
Guest Post: Goodbye Dewey? Rethinking Youth Nonfiction
Thanks to Katie Halama, Youth Services Coordinator, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, for this guest post! Katie received a scholarship from...
Guest Post: Supervising Part-Time Staff
Jamie Smith from Hudson took the UW-Madison iSchool's Continuing Education course: Strategies for Supervising Part-Time Staff thanks to a...
Introducing Learning Loop!
Welcome to Learning Loop, the new IFLS Continuing Education/Professional Development Blog. This blog was first created as a way to facilitate...
Introducing Learning Loop
This is a new continuing education blog, hosted by Leah Langby.
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.
Spring delivery schedule, statewide advocacy, good stuff sprouting on the calendar
Spring is coming! So is the Delivery Study! The spring delivery study will take place the week of April 21-25. The study instructions, worksheet,...
Grant winners, Adult Services list and check-in, WiLS Idea to Action Fund call for proposals, advocacy update, coming up on the calendar
Congratulations, grant winners! Seven IFLS libraries received grants for either $10,000 or $20,000 from the American Library Association’s Libraries...
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...