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Category: Learning Opportunities

Ask Us Anything! A WiLS Ideas to Action Fund Q&A Session

WiLS Ideas to Action Fund Logo, a lightbulb, and words, "Bringing Your Ideas to Life."
March 20, 2026 WiLS staff

This event was held on April 23, 2026. Watch the recording on our YouTube channel! The WiLS Ideas to Action Fund helps turn bold ideas into real impact, offering grants of up to $5,000 for projects that support innovation, collaboration, and shared learning across member organizations. Now is the perfect time to start planning your proposal!… READ MORE

Posted in Ideas to Action, Ideas to Action 2026, Learning Opportunities, Membership, Services & Projects, Things You'll Like!, WiLS Events

WiLSWorld Shorts: Navigating “Unkind Times” with Immigrant K-12 Literature

WiLSWorld Shorts Navigating "Unkind Times" with Immigrant K-12 Literature, two children read to one another, Friday, April 17th, 1:00pm CT
March 13, 2026 WiLS staff

This webinar was held on Friday, April 17th. You can watch the recording on our YouTube channel or view the slides. “We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street on… READ MORE

Posted in Learning Opportunities, Things You'll Like!, WiLS Events, WiLSWorld Shorts

WiLS 2026 Membership Meeting: Caring for Our Communities

WiLS 2026 Member Meeting on Friday, February 27th at 10:00 am CT Featuring libraries working to care for their communities
January 22, 2026 WiLS staff

This meeting was held on February 27th, 2026, at 10:00 am online. You can watch the recording on the WiLS YouTube channel or view the slides. Every day, we see how our members care for their communities. Whether in conversations, at conferences, in local news, or in Ideas to Action proposals, we hear how libraries… READ MORE

Posted in Learning Opportunities, Member News, Services & Projects, Things You'll Like!, WiLS Events

Free Webinar for WiLS Members: Understanding Mis-information, Dis-information, and AI Content

December 11, 2025 WiLS staff

Discounted registration for this learning opportunity is closed. Keep your eyes on the WiLS blog for new continuing education for members from UW-Madison iSchool! Individuals can still register at the full price for each webinar until the Tuesday before each event.  In today’s information landscape, identifying mis-information and dis-information has become an increasingly difficult challenge…. READ MORE

Posted in Learning Opportunities, Membership, Technology, Things You'll Like!

WiLSWorld Shorts: Take It Outside! Creative Library Programming in Outdoor Spaces

December 2, 2025 WiLS staff

This edition of WiLSWorld Shorts was held on January 23rd, 2026. Feel free to watch the recording on our YouTube channel or view the slides! It might be cold outside now, but we’re dreaming of sunshine, story time under the trees, programs on the patio, and chalk art on the sidewalk!  Join us on Friday,… READ MORE

Posted in Learning Opportunities, Member News, Things You'll Like!, WiLS Events, WiLSWorld Shorts
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