WiLS is proud to announce our first cohort of Data Classroom graduates! The cohort members spent the last six months engaged in library-centric data and research training and recently completed their final showcase to highlight their work. We were so impressed, we wanted to share it with our members, too! The Data Classroom experience is… READ MORE
Recollection Wisconsin connects cultural heritage institutions – libraries, archives, historical societies, and community organizations – statewide to preserve, promote, and facilitate access to Wisconsin’s rich history through collaboration and infrastructure. By providing both a unified portal to partners’ historical collections and a wide variety of support services for creating those collections, Recollection Wisconsin increases awareness of… READ MORE
TALK (Text and Learn for Kindergarten) is a program that delivers early learning activities several times per week via text messages to caregivers of children under 6, in either English or Spanish. Based on Every Child Ready to Read, TALK activities build pre-literacy skills starting from birth, such as hearing letter sounds, building hand muscles and dexterity,… READ MORE
By Cole Clark, Curating Indigenous Digital Collections Fellow, WiLS I first heard about Culture Keepers from my former supervisor and friend, Anita Heard, when I was working at the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways. It was described as so much more than a professional development conference for networking between Native Nations’ cultural heritage… READ MORE
This February, the WiLS Cooperative Purchasing team, with two goals in mind, asked members to respond to an annual survey about the service. First, we wanted to learn more about our members’ knowledge of and satisfaction with the service. Second, wanted to learn how our members use the service and how they’d like it to… READ MORE