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Grant Alert Deadlines: Quarterly; the last day of each quarter T-Mobile Hometown Grants is a $25 million, five-year initiative to support the people and organizations who help small towns across America thrive and grow. Hometown Grants are given every quarter to up to...

WiLSWorld Shorts - Book Challenge Hindsight: What You Wish You’d Known On Friday, March 24th at 1:00 pm CT, WiLS is hosting a WILSWorld Shorts with a panel of people involved with K12 and public libraries who have valuable experience and advice to share on...

Grant for Solar! EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is accepting applications for grants that will fund solar installations at libraries around the world. $300,000 in grants are available to libraries looking to fund a solar project to reduce electricity costs. All...

Missed one! What you need to know about this year’s Beanstack If you are a library that has used Beanstack in the past, you should have received this information already from our Beanstack rep Becky Garrety.  If you didn’t receive it, OR if your library hasn’t used...

ARSL Advocacy Center Build your advocacy muscles with the new ARSL Advocacy Center! Built and maintained by the ARSL Advocacy Committee, our advocacy resources are tailor-made for addressing the needs and effectively communicating the impact of small, rural libraries....

$$$ opportunity closing Feb 28 Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities will offer more than $7 million in grants to small and rural libraries to increase the accessibility of facilities, services, and programs to better serve people...

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 Waltco for redistribution. Katelyn is looking into the bin inventory. Any questions to Katelyn (noack@ifls.lib.wi.us)...

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 Marketing Committee: this might be a good time to order swag for Explore MORE Passport prizes.) On the IFLS calendar...

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 and you get to go for free! It’s not too late to register. If you miss a session, don’t worry. Recordings will be...

End of the OverDrive app The OverDrive app will sunset at the end of April 2023. This change will simplify how you promote your digital collection, train your staff, and support your users. In the weeks before the OverDrive app sunset, current in-app messaging will be...