For more than seven years, the WiLS Staff Development Group has been working one-on-one with staff and in coordination with one another for the sole purpose of making sure WiLS employees know they are valued. While some of our projects have been larger scale endeavors, like incorporating a flexible-hour work week or expanding employment benefits,… READ MORE
Sweater weather approaches. Soon we’ll be picking apples, flannel-laden with pumpkin spice latte in-hand, thrifting for Halloween costumes. But it’s also a goodbye to summer – a glorious season filled with its own traditions and nostalgia. In summer’s waning days, our staff wanted to share the places and people that make it a special time… READ MORE
We are very excited to share the awardees for this year’s Ideas to Action Fund! The WiLS Board and staff had very hard decisions to make, sifting through intriguing and important ideas proposed by a record-breaking 64 public, academic, and K12 libraries as well as cultural and tribal organizations. We are honored to see the… READ MORE
This semester, we are thrilled to welcome Alex Belovich to our team for his UW-Madison iSchool practicum experience. We thought you’d like to meet him! Alex hails from Brecksville, Ohio and is in his final semester at the iSchool. We asked him to share a little about his path to the field of librarianship, how… READ MORE
Since 2022, the Wisconsin Schools Digital Library Consortium (WSDLC) has hosted the Reach More Readers Challenge, a friendly competition between WSDLC-member school districts with the goal of (re)introducing students to the digital materials available to them year-round, encouraging and empowering them to continue reading all summer long. This competition is simple: Library staff at WSDLC… READ MORE