7/14/2025 at 11.40p - MORE Catalog and app not working: Our vendor is aware and working on the problem. In the meantime, the MORE Classic Catalog is still working
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....
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....
Tomorrow in Bloomer: Wisconsin Author Open House Tomorrow Bloomer’s public library is having an author open house from 2-5 pm, featuring 12 Wisconsin authors. They will be reading excerpts from their books while we enjoy cookies, cocoa and coffee. Throughout the...
Reminder! Delivery study is next week! Questions go Katelyn at dubiel@ifls.lib.wi.us. Friends of the Library Grants for Small and Rural Libraries United for Libraries and Penguin Random House will award grants of $500 and $1,000 (totaling $25,000) to support libraries...
Congratulations! WLA Announces 2024 Annual Award winners include: Rebecca Puhl, Library Director, Phillips Public Library, Phillips, won the WLA/WEMTA Intellectual Freedom Award. Well deserved! University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire McIntyre Library, Eau Claire, won the...
Read the Weekly Digest to get the most timely information from IFLS! We aggregate and send the week’s important information for library workers in our system in a neat little package every Thursday. Weekly Digest is also a searchable blog, and you can find it on the...
