Tip Jar, Programming Kit spotlight, save IMLS, webinar highlights, coming up on the calendar

by IFLS Staff | Jul 10, 2025 | Weekly Digest

Tip Jar When you borrow programming kits from Lend Items, please be sure to include time for transit to and from your library in your reservation.  Systems send out your item on the day the reservation starts, and expect the kits to be back so we can get it ready to...

Happy 4th! WISCAT user group recordings, postcard campaign, hashtags, Cadott groundbreaking, showcasing collections, and the calendar

by IFLS Staff | Jul 3, 2025 | Weekly Digest

Happy fourth! WISCAT User Group Meeting Recording Available WISCAT User Group Meeting recording and slides are now posted on the WISCAT Documentation page.  The video recording and slides from the June 17, 2025, WISCAT User Group Meeting are now available on the...

WI Science Festival, public notice clarification, postcard update, librarians in the wild, Stanley breaks ground

by IFLS Staff | Jun 26, 2025 | Weekly Digest

Wisconsin Science Festival & Bioblitz The 15th annual Wisconsin Science Festival (WSF) will be held in our state on October 16-26, 2025. Again this year, the Wisconsin Water Library at UW-Madison is assisting the WSF to support libraries’ participation in the...

Courier best practices, Leadership Development Institute, public records notice, Trustee Training week printable, catalogers repository, on the calendar

by IFLS Staff | Jun 20, 2025 | Weekly Digest

Courier best practices Please remind staff that put items in courier: Only use removeable tape when attaching paperwork to materials. We’ve received reports of regular tape being used, which can damage items. If an item includes paperwork, it is appropriate...

Policy of the Month Club, send advocacy postcards now, order Passport supplies, last chance on Data Dashboard pilot, scholarships and events

by IFLS Staff | Jun 12, 2025 | Weekly Digest

Why join Policy of the Month Club? You know that at their best library policies are living documents that are regularly reviewed and updated. Where to start? Enter Policy of the Month Club! It was created to offer busy directors and other library policy writers an...

Weekly Digest: grants, postcard & passport programs, coming on the calendar

by IFLS Staff | Jun 7, 2025 | Weekly Digest

If you feel like there’s really a lot going on, you’re not wrong! Happy summer, y’all! In case you missed it: ARSL’s grant email These grants were listed in ARSL’s newsletter from various sources: Community Heart and Soul grant Believe in Reading Courage Project Award...