WiLS, home of the Mukurtu Midwest Hub, is excited to share that we will partner with Washington State University on its Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award of $1.5 million to sustain the Mukurtu content management system established in 2009. The Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation at Washington State University develops Mukurtu, a free, open-source… READ MORE
In 2023, the WiLS Ideas to Action Fund awarded a grant to Hartland Public Library to develop a project that promotes the Ice Age Trail and the library’s evolving role as a community center that supports everyone and all kinds of activities that promote physical and mental health. Here is the mid-point report from the… READ MORE
Do you have a project that needs a boost? Are you dreaming up a service you’d like to develop but don’t have funding? Through the Ideas to Action Fund, WiLS provides grants of up to $5,000 so libraries and cultural organizations can bring their project ideas to life. The program aims to encourage partnerships and… READ MORE
Spring is around the corner and it’s time to begin thinking about next school year’s subscription renewals for our K12 MyWiLS subscribers. Each year we offer a chance to win a free MyWiLS subscription to any K12 member who completes subscription renewals by May 1st, and this year is no different! The drawing will be… READ MORE
Presented as part of the WiLS 2024 Membership Meeting, Kirsten Moffler-Daykin, Learning Commons Manager at Western Technical College in La Crosse, shared a mid-point update on her WiLS Ideas to Action-funded project, Blooming with Books: Cultivating a Community of Readers of All Ages. The project aims to address a profound need in language literacy, social… READ MORE