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New Recorded Webinar: Creating a Marketing Plan
Have you been tasked with handling marketing for your library, but don’t know where to start? Work is always easier when you have a plan. Fortunately, creating a marketing and communications plan doesn’t have to be difficult. In this session we will discuss how to...
New WVLS Email Communications Guideline
Monday Mentions was created in 2018 to reduce the number of emails WVLS members receive from WVLS staff. While every effort is made to include most correspondence in Monday Mentions, there are occasions when individual emails need to be sent. At the September 2024...
Registration Open for Annual Winter Conference
Registration is now open for the 13th Annual Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference, a two-day series of webinars that will be held on January 22-23, 2025. Fourteen sessions will be available in four different tracks, including Management, Internal Communications,...
WVLS December Newsletter
The WVLS December 2024 Newsletter is now posted. Features include: V-Cat Celebrates 25 Years 2025 "Wild Wisconsin" Conference Registration Open Memory Kits Spark Joy and Connection at MCPL Minocqua Pivots to TotTime Essential Library Skills Series: Patron Privacy MCPL...
Privacy and Confidentiality in Wisconsin Public Libraries: Upholding Patron Trust
As part of a new bi-monthly series, WVLS is featuring information and resources on fundamental library skills in the WVLS newsletter and as a Digital Byte. This month’s topic is Patron Privacy. In the realm of public libraries, privacy and confidentiality are...
WVLS Seeking Public Library Services Consultant
The Wisconsin Valley Library Service (WVLS), a federated public library system, is seeking an innovative, knowledgeable, and experienced team-oriented individual to provide professional and courteous consultant services, onsite and remotely, to 25 public libraries in...
The Important Role of Public Libraries in Providing Free Programs
Public libraries serve as indispensable hubs of knowledge, education, and cultural enrichment, fostering lifelong learning and intellectual growth for its users. One critical aspect of this mission is to ensure unequivocal access to the library’s space, services and...
Gale Presents: Udemy Now Available
WVLS is excited to announce that Gale Presents: Udemy is now available to all WVLS member library patrons. With Gale Presents: Udemy, patrons can connect to thousands of video-based courses in business, technology, leadership, and personal development. This top...
New Recorded Webinar on Copyright
WVLS has a new recorded webinar available called "Copyright Basics for All Library Staff." What is fair use? How about Creative Commons? Can you use that image you found online? Can you make copies of that disc? How about making copies of that online article for a...
2023 Summer Program Graphics and Templates
Use these images and templates as you wish. When using a template, FIRST make a copy and then make your edits. Need help? Send me an email at and I can make a set for you! Program Printables Outdoor Program Plans Low-Cost Program Plans All Passive...
WVLS January Newsletter
The WVLS January Newsletter is now posted. Features include: Registration Open for Virtual Library Legislative Day Natalie Portman Named Honorary Chair for NLW Merrill Distributes Bird Art Kits Loyal Revamps Picture Book Section MCPL Distributes ‘Grab n G” Craft Kits...
October Newsletter Now Available
The WVLS October Newsletter is now available online. Features include: WVLS Adult Services Workshop in November October Recognizes Important Observance Member Library Director Interviewed on WPR Rib Lake Hosts Online Trivia Nights Back-to-School Bag Sale at RDL MCPL...
September is Library Card Sign-Up Month
This September, DC’s Wonder Woman is embarking on a new mission to champion the power of a library card as Library Card Sign-up Month Honorary Chair. A founding member of the Justice League, Wonder Woman is known for strength, compassion and truth. Armed with the...
How Can We Serve Seniors?
The Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) presented a webinar on June 17 on providing senior services, and it was excellent. Here is more information: Webinar Recording Access the slides Full description and speaker information Highlights of the Webinar...
September is Library Card Sign-Up Month
Get ready for National Library Card Sign-up Month! ALA has you covered with free, artwork, social media ideas, and more. September is Library Card Sign-up Month, a time when the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries nationwide join together to remind...
Registration Open
Registration is now open for Trustee Training Week, set for August 12-16. There is a great line-up of speakers this year, including Rebekkah Smith Aldrich Pat Wagner Dawn Wacek Connie Meyer and Kathy Pletcher Shauna Koszegi There will be variety of topics covered,...
Registration Open for WAPL Conference
The 2018 WAPL Conference was a huge success. Join us in Rothschild in May of 2019 for even more spectacular programs and events! WAPL Registration is open! http://wla.wisconsinlibraries.org/wapl/conferences-events/conference-registration The keynote address, "How to...
It’s Time to Celebrate
The following information was taken from ALA's website on National Library Week. First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to...
Outdoor Learning Webinar in April
Outdoor Learning at the Library: It’s Only Natural (webinar)Wednesday, April 17; 1 pmPresented by: Trina Evans, Branch AssistantSusan Bednarz, Assistant Reference LibrarianKokomo-Howard County Public LibraryKokomo, IN1 Contact Hour Studies show children benefit a...
New in Inclusive Services
1. Thank you to all who offered to join the new IDEA (Inclusive, Diversity, Equity and Access) Team! Our Team members are Laurie Ollhoff (Merrill), Sue Heskin (Superior), Jeanne Wolfe (Lac du Flambeau), Emilie Braunel (Sayner), Angie Bodzislaw (Spooner). We will be...