Blogs
Keeping Up With Kids is Leah Langby’s long-running popular blog. She delves into subjects related to Youth Services from many different angles.
Youth Services Updates
March is certainly an exciting and tumultuous month weather-wise (and otherwise, too!). I hope things are going as well as possible for you all. ...
Mental Health First Aid Training
There are lots of reports about the mental health effects of the pandemic on young people, and according to the Wisconsin Rural Opioid and Simulant...
Here’s an update on few resources and upcoming events for youth services folks. This YSS blog post sums up some excellent upcoming resources related...
Summer Resources
I've come across some great resources about summers and libraries lately. Here are a few: Association for Library Service to Children's new(ish)...
Weekly Digest is a compilation of the best information that crosses our desks at IFLS. Edited by Rebecca Kilde, so if you’d like something to appear in Weekly Digest, send it to kilde@ifls.lib.wi.us with Weekly Digest in the subject line. Posts are deleted after six months.
Weekly Digest: privacy, Beanstack news, advocacy, Passport update, coming up
Privacy: is your library up to speed? Wisconsin public library workers have access to a tutorial covering the basics of privacy and public...
Weekly Digest: a grant, WAPL conference, Explore MORE, coming up
Grant Alert Deadlines: Quarterly; the last day of each quarter T-Mobile Hometown Grants is a $25 million, five-year initiative to support the people...
Weekly Digest: Book Challenges Hindsight, Grant alert, WAPL Conference registration open, some important dates and more
WiLSWorld Shorts - Book Challenge Hindsight: What You Wish You’d Known On Friday, March 24th at 1:00 pm CT, WiLS is hosting a WILSWorld Shorts with...
Weekly Digest: solar grant, new on Libby, Community Conversations, Hi Katie! and coming up
Grant for Solar! EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is accepting applications for grants that will fund solar installations at libraries around the...
Serving Kids with Disabilities and Their Families, part 2
Following up on my last post about the webinar More Than Welcome: Libraries Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities! Today we are...
Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities
I had a chance to watch a recorded webinar this afternoon: More Than Welcome: Libraries Serving Families of Young Children with Disabilities, which...
Weekly Digest: new on BadgerLink and the IFLS website and calendar; end of passport program
New on BadgerLInk! BadgerLink just announced a suite of new resources, with details about changes and additions. New on the list: Britannica School...
Weekly Digest: survey for you (yes, you!), nomination open, Passport question answered, and more
This survey needs you Half of IFLS library directors and only 11 staff have completed the IFLS planning survey. John Thompson would like to hear...