by IFLS Staff | May 1, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Advocacy in action! Yay to our northern libraries! And to those who spoke at JFC in Hayward on Monday. 🙂 Here’s a video (you do need a free account to watch the recording). New website training resources Erica just sent out a bunch of new resources. Video: Spring...
by IFLS Staff | Apr 24, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Federal funding news from DPI From Ben Miller: “Wisconsin’s partial LSTA 2025 funding award just came through! We received 50% of our award for a total of $1,615,416. The timeline for the additional 50% is still unknown, but we have been told they are...
by IFLS Staff | Apr 17, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Delivery study is coming! Thank you all for participating and helping IFLS collect this vital information, which is used for a variety of reasons; one of which is when courier companies develop bids for our business they need to see the volume of the library...
by IFLS Staff | Apr 16, 2025 | Marketing and Advocacy
by IFLS Staff | Apr 10, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Spring is coming! So is the Delivery Study! The spring delivery study will take place the week of April 21-25. The study instructions, worksheet, and an example of a completed worksheet can also be found on the Delivery Page on the IFLS website...
by Leah Langby | Apr 8, 2025 | Keeping Up With Kids, Learning Loop
Ray Pagenkopf from the Menomonie Public Library was able to attend the 2025 virtual Power Up: A Leadership Conference for Youth Services Managers and Staff Conference in February thanks to a scholarship from IFLS, with funding support from the WI Division for Library...
by IFLS Staff | Apr 2, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Congratulations, grant winners! Seven IFLS libraries received grants for either $10,000 or $20,000 from the American Library Association’s Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Libraries project! Staff from these libraries are undergoing...
by Leah Langby | Apr 1, 2025 | Keeping Up With Kids, Learning Loop
NOTE: This blog post was written by Nicole Witt, Youth Services Coordinator at D.R. Moon Library-Stanley, based what she learned from the UW Madison iSchool’s Continuing Education course Sustainably Grow Your Summer Library Program. Nicole was able to attend...
by IFLS Staff | Mar 28, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Advocacy updates Here’s a piece about IMLS funding cuts by WPR. The written article has more information than the radio piece. Small Wisconsin libraries might be hit hard as Trump targets federal funding – WPR Statewide advocacy campaign organizers are working...
by IFLS Staff | Mar 21, 2025 | Weekly Digest
Shake up at IMLS There’s a lot going on right now, and it can be a little overwhelming. I’ll start with what we know. The Executive Order states that IMLS must be reduced to its “statutory functions.” It also requires that “non-statutory components and functions...
