WHAT WE DO

Saving members time and money by facilitating collaborative projects and delivering customized services.

Cooperative Purchasing

Save time and stretch your dollars by joining the more than 400 libraries that purchase products – from databases to furniture – through WiLS. Manage your subscriptions on your schedule with our one-stop easy-to-use portal and receive invoices customized to your needs.

Consulting Services

Bring in the experts! Whether you are looking to build your knowledge of your library through data, grow your understanding of your community through thoughtful engagement, or develop a new process to improve the work you do, we’ll get you the answers you need.

Collaboration Support

WiLS finely-honed skills in project and financial management, governance and meeting support, communication, and research can activate nearly any team of collaborators on a wide variety of projects, from single-task workgroups to statewide consortia.

Digital Projects

From planning to scanning, cataloging to preservation, WiLS staff members have the expertise to help you launch and tend your digital collections. We can provide training, education, consultation, or a combination of all three, customized to your needs.

Event Management

WiLS allows you to focus on your community by taking off your plate meeting coordination, timeline administration, agenda-setting, venue coordination, communication, financial management, and other tasks that go into project and event management.

Give Back to Members

WiLS provides opportunities for learning, collaboration, and action in order to grow and strengthen all parts of our ecosystem through our Ideas to Action Fund, WiLSWorld Shorts free webinar series, and pro bono work that gives back to the community.