Advocacy Resources and Ideas

According to an article in Cosmopolitan Magazine, the Institute for Museum and Library Services accounted for 0.00006 percent of the federal budget in 2016.  Yet this institution provides crucial infrastructure to Wisconsin libraries, along with funding to pursue...

More Data that’s Encouraging!

In a recent Pew Study on libraries, guess what they found?85% of people believe libraries should DEFINITELY provide free early literacy programs85% of people believe libraries should DEFINITELY work more closely with local schools to provide resources to kids.These...

Get the Mayor Involved in Summer Reading!

Thanks to Kim Hennings at New Richmond for this guest blog post about a great addition to their Summer Library Program:This year, in addition to weekly reading goals for SLP participants, we added “Mayor Fred’s Summer Reading Challenge.”We had a high...