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
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WiLS 2023 Member Meeting: Breaking Barriers and Opening Doors
This meeting was held on Friday, February 24th. You can watch the recording on our YouTube channel. You can also view the slides. Libraries and cultural organizations are out there breaking down barriers every day, improving access to their spaces, programs, resources, staff, and professions! Even with limited resources and staff capacity, they are figuring… READ MORE
Save the Date! WiLS 2023 Member Meeting: Friday, February 24th at 10:00 am CT
Save the date for WiLS’ next Member Meeting on Friday, February 24th at 10:00 am CT! We hope you’ll join us to hear what our library and cultural organization members have been up to in the last year and get an update on WiLS work in 2022 and looking ahead. Registration will be open soon!… READ MORE
Resources for Banned Books Week
In 2021, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked 729 challenges to library materials and services, affecting 1,597 books primarily about Black or LGBTQIA+ folks. This is the highest number of attempted book bans since the ALA began compiling this data 20 years ago. And, between January 1st and August 31st of 2022, ALA documented… 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