Save the date for WiLS’ next Member Meeting on Friday, February 24th at 10:00 am CT! We hope you’ll join us to hear what our library and cultural organization members have been up to in the last year and get an update on WiLS work in 2022 and looking ahead. Registration will be open soon!… READ MORE
The Internet Librarian Conference, being held this year on October 18-20 in Monterey, CA, is offering a registration discount to WiLS members! Get $200 off your conference Gold Pass or $150 off standard full conference registration by using code 22WILS when you register or by using this link to add your discount automatically. Let us… READ MORE
2022 marks the fifth anniversary of WiLS’ Ideas to Action Fund. This opportunity, offered annually by the WiLS Board, supports innovative and collaborative work in order to inspire the creation of new processes, methods, or resources that can be used by other WiLS member libraries and cultural organizations. This year, we received 33 outstanding proposals… READ MORE
WiLS has embarked on the second year of our 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, funds a series of post-graduate fellowships to support knowledge preservation and language revitalization in… READ MORE
Over the past three years, WiLS has served as a mentor organization for two cohorts of small and rural libraries undertaking community memory projects, thanks to the Accelerating Promising Practices funding opportunity from IMLS. (For more information on the program, check out our previous blog posts here and here.) The second cohort began their work… READ MORE