04/17/2025 - MORE online payment service available again: MORE's credit card payment (ecommerce) system is working again after being unavailable yesterday afternoon through this morning
New content on the IFLS Niche Academy We are working on populating the IFLS Niche Academy with webinars and tutorials. Just this week, we added several new webinars to the Customer Service and the Administration categories. Look for new resources on dealing with...
It’s group supply order time! It is time for the annual group supply order. Please return your order form by end of day Wednesday, February 19. Please refer to Sarah’s email from January 30, which included complete instructions and details. There are also some surplus...
What’s up with long Libby holds? Are you or your patrons wondering about long waits on Libby holds? NPR Podcasts recently posted a YouTube video-short about this issue: Why is your Libby hold taking so long? How can you be “in line” to borrow a digital...
This means spring is coming, right? Announcing FREE Gardening Webinars and Activities from nationally known and Wisconsin-based gardening expert and author Melinda Myers for all Wisconsin Public Libraries to use in 2025. Melinda hopes you can incorporate any or all of...
Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference The Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference is: a FREE 2-day conference for library workers in Wisconsin on January 22 and 23. Fourteen different high quality webinars on a variety of topics. Extra-fun to attend live, and also...
One of the most impactful things you can do for libraries: Library Legislative Day registration deadline is tomorrow We are lucky in Wisconsin. As a result of years of hard work and strategy at the state level we have bipartisan support in Madison for library funding....
In case you missed this: 2024 annual report info From TWAM: This week, my IFLS colleagues and I will begin compiling data for your libraries’ annual reports, with the goal of having as much data as possible pre-filled into your electronic forms once...
Library Love Story is ready to go! Library Love Story is our annual advocacy project. We collect testimonials from library lovers and present them to our elected officials at Library Legislative Day (Feb 11 this year). Here’s a link to the Library Love Story form....
Staff News WLA election results Congratulations to Katelyn Dubiel (IFLS) and Nick Andrews (Elmwood) for being elected to serve our state on WLA’s Wisconsin Small Libraries board, and to our soon-to-be IFLS staffer Jackee Johnson for her election to the Technical...
Grants and scholarships Apply now for ALA’s Libraries Transform Communities Engagement Grant to help build neighborhood connections! This one seems a little more geared towards slightly larger libraries, as the grant this year will support two libraries’ work...
Thing #1 New MORE Support Specialist at IFLS Jackee Johnson, currently ILS Administrator at Northern Waters Library Service, has been hired as the new MORE Support Specialist. Jackee’s start date will be January 6, following Kathy Setter’s retirement....
