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
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
Join us on Friday, October 13th at 1:00 pm CT for the next WiLSWorld Shorts: Social Work Concepts in Libraries. This edition welcomes speakers Ashley Cedeño, Library Social Worker at the Racine Public Library; Debbie Minsky-Kelly, Field Director and Clinical Assistant Professor at the Carthage College School of Social Work; and Libby Richter, Community Resource… READ MORE
This webinar was held on Friday, November 17th at 1:00 pm CT. The recording can be found on our YouTube channel and you can find the slides, with links to the materials referenced, here. In early 2023, an article on the 4 Day Week Global movement caught the attention of the WiLS Staff Development team. A growing body of research… READ MORE
Summer is in full swing and WiLS staff is tearing through some fabulous books! Do you have an opening on your summer reading list? Here are a few recommendations from us to you! I just finished The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater knowing little about it except that it has been widely challenged in schools… READ MORE