“It was a great experience to have and one to learn from. It’s bittersweet to be ending!” – Camrin Sullivan, Lakeview Community Library, Random Lake, WI (Cohort 2) By Ellen Brooks At the end of 2022, we shared a blog post reporting on some of the outcomes from the IMLS Accelerating Promising Practices Community Memory… READ MORE
by Ellen Brooks, Community Memory & Digital Archives Consultant The work that WiLS began in 2019 as a mentor organization for small and rural libraries undertaking community memory projects around the country is drawing to a close. Over the past 3 years, WiLS staff Vicki Tobias, Kristen Whitson, and Emily Pfotenhauer, along with expert consultant… READ MORE
Over the past three years, WiLS has served as a mentor organization for two cohorts of small and rural libraries undertaking community memory projects, thanks to the Accelerating Promising Practices funding opportunity from IMLS. (For more information on the program, check out our previous blog posts here and here.) The second cohort began their work… READ MORE
In Fall 2019, WiLS began a cooperative agreement with the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to mentor a cohort of ten small, rural, and tribal libraries around the country awarded grants for community memory projects. This summer, as they head into the home stretch of their grants, cohort members have shared short presentations… READ MORE
by Ellen Brooks, Community Memory & Digital Archives Consultant In September of 2020, a second cohort of small, rural, and tribal libraries from around the country embarked on community memory projects thanks to the Accelerating Promising Practices funding opportunity from IMLS. Once again, WiLS is serving as a mentor organization. From September 2020 through August 2022, Emily… READ MORE