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
WiLS has embarked on the second year of our grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to advance the creation and preservation of digital collections in Wisconsin’s tribal archives, libraries, and museums. The three-year initiative, Curating Indigenous Digital Collections, funds a series of post-graduate fellowships to support knowledge preservation and language revitalization in… 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
This WiLSWorld Shorts was held on Friday, October 7th at 1:00 pm CT. You can watch the recording on our YouTube channel or view the slides. In this session, we welcome Elizabeth Tomev from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to discuss the importance of communicating positive library events, programs, staff milestones, and more. We… READ MORE
This month, we welcome these new members to the WiLS Board! We asked them to share a little bit about themselves: Sarah Miller, WiscNet, has eight years of experience inside a similar membership organization to WiLS and cares deeply about the vital role of libraries, cultural institutions, and their partners in making the world a better place. As the… READ MORE