by IFLS Staff | Jun 26, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Wisconsin Science Festival & Bioblitz The 15th annual Wisconsin Science Festival (WSF) will be held in our state on October 16-26, 2025. Again this year, the Wisconsin Water Library at UW-Madison is assisting the WSF to support libraries’ participation in the...
by IFLS Staff | Jun 23, 2025 | Passport
I’m enjoying the heat, activity, and long days of summer. Hoping for cooler nights this week, though! It seems like everything is working well with this year’s passport program. I’ve gotten a lot of requests for additional stickers and passports. If you share...
by IFLS Staff | Jun 20, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Courier best practices Please remind staff that put items in courier: Only use removeable tape when attaching paperwork to materials. We’ve received reports of regular tape being used, which can damage items. If an item includes paperwork, it is appropriate...
by IFLS Staff | Jun 12, 2025 | Passport
We’ve got a nice slate of prizes this year. If you aren’t seeing a lot of your library users interested in the Passport Program, maybe a reminder and talking about prizes would encourage some folks to give it a try. It’s fine to accept email requests for a remote...
by IFLS Staff | Jun 12, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Why join Policy of the Month Club? You know that at their best library policies are living documents that are regularly reviewed and updated. Where to start? Enter Policy of the Month Club! It was created to offer busy directors and other library policy writers an...
by IFLS Staff | Jun 7, 2025 | Weekly Digest
If you feel like there’s really a lot going on, you’re not wrong! Happy summer, y’all! In case you missed it: ARSL’s grant email These grants were listed in ARSL’s newsletter from various sources: Community Heart and Soul grant Believe in Reading Courage Project Award...
by IFLS Staff | Jun 2, 2025 | Passport
I created a Staff-only entry form. Please use these for staff explorers, so we don’t have the prize mixups we had last year! Travis and Karen pointed out that the print version os instructions were the wrong document!! I’m sorry! The correct document is now linked in...
by IFLS Staff | May 29, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Apply Now! WiLS Ideas to Action closes June 2 The WiLS Ideas to Action Fund application period closes in just a few days! Through this fund, WiLS provides grants of up to $5,000 so WiLS members can bring their innovative and collaborative project ideas to life. The...
by IFLS Staff | May 22, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Scholarships and Grants The Wisconsin Library Association Foundation is accepting applications for a variety of scholarships and grants that support library science students and fund continuing education opportunities for WLA members. Applications are due June 15,...
by IFLS Staff | May 8, 2025 | Weekly Digest
New HR resource for directors and managers! Check out Human Resources for Wisconsin Library Leaders, a new resource for directors and managers! Live webinars, on-demand videos and recorded webinars, and helpful resources will be gathered in one place. Produced by WI...
by IFLS Staff | May 1, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Advocacy in action! Yay to our northern libraries! And to those who spoke at JFC in Hayward on Monday. 🙂 Here’s a video (you do need a free account to watch the recording). New website training resources Erica just sent out a bunch of new resources. Video: Spring...
by IFLS Staff | Apr 24, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Federal funding news from DPI From Ben Miller: “Wisconsin’s partial LSTA 2025 funding award just came through! We received 50% of our award for a total of $1,615,416. The timeline for the additional 50% is still unknown, but we have been told they are...
