After a record-breaking number of applications from 47 WiLS member organizations, our staff and Board are delighted to share with you the amazing projects that have been selected to receive grants from the WiLS Ideas to Action Fund in 2023! Clear Lake School District, Bringing Our History to Life Using traveling display cases, the project… READ MORE
Are you new to your school library position or have you recently switched districts? The WiLS Cooperative Purchasing team can ease your transition with the MyWiLS Orientation Toolkit. The Toolkit is specifically designed for Library Media Specialists and helps document your subscription information – URLs and access information, usage stats, invoicing preferences, and communications from… READ MORE
In the spring of 2022, the Wisconsin Schools Digital Library Consortium (WSDLC) introduced a a program called the Reach More Readers Challenge as a fun and simple way for participating school libraries to highlight the Sora reading app and the robust collection of audiobooks, ebooks, comics, and magazines it contains to students before they leave… READ MORE
WiLS has embarked on the third year of its grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to advance the creation and preservation of digital collections in Wisconsin’s tribal archives, libraries, and museums. The three-year initiative, Curating Indigenous Digital Collections (CIDC), funds a series of post-graduate fellowships to support knowledge preservation and language revitalization… READ MORE
“It was a great experience to have and one to learn from. It’s bittersweet to be ending!” – Camrin Sullivan, Lakeview Community Library, Random Lake, WI (Cohort 2) By Ellen Brooks At the end of 2022, we shared a blog post reporting on some of the outcomes from the IMLS Accelerating Promising Practices Community Memory… READ MORE