Our Board is one of the most important ways we grow and improve our services to our member community so thank you to each member representative who took the time this spring to vote! We are honored to welcome these two new faces to our Board on July 1st: Jennifer Gurske Program & Technology Manager… READ MORE
Category: Things You’ll Like!
Greetings from Nick Smith, WiLS’ New Operations Assistant
As a member of the Admin and Cooperative Purchasing teams, my main responsibilities are in helping administer WiLS’ many goings-on and working with the public and K12 cooperative purchasing subscription process. That’s a long-winded way to say I push a lot of buttons, enter a lot of numbers, and send a lot of emails! On… READ MORE
Introducing WiLS’ Social Justice Spotlight and the Unity Project
WiLS’ 2021 Strategic Initiatives include a commitment to operationalize our organization’s values by “identifying or creating tangible opportunities to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion.” One way we are doing this is through the Social Justice Spotlight series, which seeks to use WiLS’ platform to amplify community-based organizations, initiatives, and projects in and around Wisconsin that do bold,… READ MORE
Greetings from Sarah Lundquist, Curating Indigenous Digital Collections Fellow
My name is Sarah Lundquist, and I am joining WiLS as the Curating Indigenous Digital Collections fellow. This position is funded by an NEH grant and is a partnership between WiLS and the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin to support the preservation of traditional Ho-Chunk knowledge in the digital space. In doing so, it utilizes Mukurtu… READ MORE
Greetings from WiLS’ Summer Intern, Caroline Pacey
Hello! My name is Caroline Pacey and I will be an intern at WiLS for the summer. I graduated from La Roche University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a degree in Literature in the spring of 2020. Now, I am in the Information and Library Science Graduate Program at UW Madison. I am concentrating on the… READ MORE