Do you have a project that needs a boost? Are you dreaming up a service you’d like to develop but don’t have funding? Through the Ideas to Action Fund, WiLS provides grants of up to $5,000 so libraries and cultural organizations can bring their project ideas to life. The program aims to encourage partnerships and collaborations among… READ MORE
Category: Ideas to Action
Ideas to Action: Supporting & Celebrating a Multilingual Campus Community
The Lakeshore Technical College Library, like many Wisconsin libraries, has traditionally been a monolingual space, operating exclusively in English. However, we recognize that our students, staff, and community members represent an increasingly diverse range of linguistic identities. Now, thanks to the WiLS Ideas to Action Fund, we are able to address this gap by creating… READ MORE
Ideas to Action: Walking in Community
In September of 2022, Dr. Kelli Hughes Jones, Reference Librarian at Waukesha County Technical College, was awarded an Ideas to Action Fund grant to develop the project, Walking in Community: A Place of Our Own. At our annual Member Meeting in February 2023, Dr. Hughes Jones delivered a video update on the project and the… READ MORE
Meet the Ideas to Action 2022 Awardees
2022 marks the fifth anniversary of WiLS’ Ideas to Action Fund. This opportunity, offered annually by the WiLS Board, supports innovative and collaborative work in order to inspire the creation of new processes, methods, or resources that can be used by other WiLS member libraries and cultural organizations. This year, we received 33 outstanding proposals… READ MORE
Ideas to Action: Chilton Public Library Bridges the Technology Divide
By Rebbecca Barry, Assistant Director at Chilton Public Library “Do you really think that you will have a calculator with you everywhere you go?” Turns out that I now carry a mini-computer with me in my pocket. Not a digital native, I was raised to recognize the growing technological age. As we moved from electric… READ MORE