This is the mid-point report, written by Community Engagement Librarian Ellen Ward-Packard, for Lake Geneva Public Library’s 2023 Ideas to Action project, Leaves and Sheaves: Papermaking for Art and the Environment. This project is connecting books, history, recycling, and plant foraging with a hand papermaking project that encourages sustainable thinking and innovative adaptations of traditional… READ MORE
Category: Ideas to Action
Ideas to Action 2023 – Libraries for Everyone: Supervised Visitations @ Your Library
by Jamie Mercer, W.J. Niederkorn Library (Port Washington) In 2022 through the beginning of 2023, we were pleased to see an increase of people coming back to the library. With the increase, we observed that patrons were using the library as something more than a repository of books, we were really transforming into a public… READ MORE
Ideas to Action 2023: Biking Along the Ice Age Trail with the Hartland Public Library
In 2023, the WiLS Ideas to Action Fund awarded a grant to Hartland Public Library to develop a project that promotes the Ice Age Trail and the library’s evolving role as a community center that supports everyone and all kinds of activities that promote physical and mental health. Here is the mid-point report from the… READ MORE
The WiLS 2024 Ideas to Action Fund Application Period Is Open!
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… READ MORE
Ideas to Action 2023: Blooming with Books
Presented as part of the WiLS 2024 Membership Meeting, Kirsten Moffler-Daykin, Learning Commons Manager at Western Technical College in La Crosse, shared a mid-point update on her WiLS Ideas to Action-funded project, Blooming with Books: Cultivating a Community of Readers of All Ages. The project aims to address a profound need in language literacy, social… READ MORE