by Ellen Brooks, Community Memory & Digital Archives Consultant The work that WiLS began in 2019 as a mentor organization for small and rural libraries undertaking community memory projects around the country is drawing to a close. Over the past 3 years, WiLS staff Vicki Tobias, Kristen Whitson, and Emily Pfotenhauer, along with expert consultant… READ MORE
The Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) held their annual international conference in October in Temecula, California, at the Pechanga Resort and Casino, and WiLS sent me, Kelsie Flack, the Curating Indigenous Digital Collections Fellow working with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. WiLS also sent Sarah Lundquist, the first-year fellow who worked with the Ho-Chunk… READ MORE
WiLS was born to the University of Wisconsin System in 1972 as Wisconsin Interlibrary Loan Services to “provide access to the extensive resources available in the UW Madison campus library collections.” This year, we celebrated our 50th birthday as WiLS, formally known as Wisconsin Library Services, with 667 member organizations: libraries of every type –… READ MORE
This event was held on Friday, January 13th, 2023, at 1:00 pm CT. You can watch the recording on our YouTube channel or view the slides. Join us for the next WiLSWorld Shorts on Friday, January 13th, at 1:00 pm CT. Libraries of all types are invited to attend to learn more about findhelp, a… READ MORE
WiLS is excited to announce that we are rolling out a new service to meet public library needs: an annual subscription to a public library data dashboard!… READ MORE