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Nic News Weekly: July 29, 2022

7/29/2022

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Here are the headlines from the July 29, 2022 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:  
  • Welcome, Katie! 
  • WLA Awards & Honors Committee announces acceptance of nominations for Library of the Year, Librarian of the Year, and more 
  • Sexual Harassment: How to respond to a customer's inappropriate comments 
  • Making neighborhood GAMES and outdoor STORIES with community history, monuments, and art 
  • Save the date for NFLS Staff Development Day on September 23 
 
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State Library Association Seeks Nominations for Annual Awards & Honors

7/25/2022

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The Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) is seeking nominations for its annual awards and honors, including:
  • WLA Library of the Year: Presented to any type of Wisconsin library, library system or library network for distinguished achievement in service.
  • WLA/Demco Librarian of the Year: Sponsored by Demco® , this award recognizes a librarian's outstanding leadership and accomplishment in library service.
  • Trustee of the Year: Conferred upon an outstanding Wisconsin library trustee.
  • Programming Innovation Award: Presented in recognition of programming leadership in providing innovative and excellent library programming in Wisconsin libraries.
  • Citation of Merit: Conferred upon Wisconsin citizens who are neither librarians nor library trustees, who have made outstanding contributions to quality library services.
  • Muriel Fuller Award: Named in honor of notable librarian, educator, and long-time library advocate Muriel Fuller (1912-1978), this award is conferred upon a library professional or paraprofessional in recognition of outstanding accomplishments which have significantly improved and benefited library services.
  • Special Service Award: Presented to a group of people or an individual for noteworthy achievement as evidenced by substantial activities and exceptional service to the library profession. The Wisconsin recipient or recipients shall have influence and reputation beyond the local community.

Nominations are due September 15, 2022. More detailed award criteria and online nomination forms are available at www.wisconsinlibraries.org/awards-honors.


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Bay Beach Visits Gillett Public Libary

7/25/2022

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Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary visited Gillett Public Library on Tuesday, July 19th with its “Birds of Prey” program.

Families learned about the importance of birds of prey in our ecosystem and what common characteristics birds of prey exhibit. A falcon, hawk, and Great Horned Owl were the animal ambassadors for the Sanctuary’s program.

Gillett Library’s next visitor program will be “Unsinkable Ships” presented by The Children’s Museum of Green Bay on Monday, August 8th from 10:30-11:30.

​Visit www.gilpubliclibrary.org for more upcoming events.
Bay Beach Wildlife employee with leather glove holding hawk for an outdoor audience
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Welcome, Katie!

7/25/2022

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Katie (Kathryn) Essermann is the new director of the Lakes Country Public Library in Lakewood, WI.

Katie has worked in the library setting for several years: four years in a school and two in a public library. She is thrilled to be the Director of the Lakes Country Library; especially because her passion for librarianship was discovered there, as she was its intern for two back-to-back summers in high school. She is also a dog mom to an 
amazing corgi, Pudgy.

Katie has come full circle from intern to Director and is ready to serve her community and help build up the Lakes Country Public Library.

Welcome, Katie!

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Nic News Weekly: July 22, 2022

7/22/2022

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Here are the headlines from the July 22, 2022 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:  
  • Join the next Small Public Library Strategic Planning Cohort 
  • Continuing education highlights from WebJunction 
  • Family Engagement statewide collaboration call with WECCP 

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NFLS News – July 2022

7/19/2022

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The NFLS News is a bi-monthly newsletter highlighting all the great things the member libraries of the Nicolet Federated Library System are doing throughout our communities. 
 
Read the July 2022 NFLS News for the latest news from a few of our member libraries. Topics include: 
  • Stephenson Public Library welcomes special summer story time guests 
  • Earthaven Museum Visits Gillett 
  • Oconto Falls Community Library brings the zoo to Oconto Falls 
  • Register for Wisconsin Trustee Training Week 
  • NFLS Trustee Spotlight: Penny Habeck 

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NFLS News - July 2022
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Nic News Weekly: July 15, 2022

7/15/2022

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Here are the headlines from the July 15, 2022 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:  
  • BadgerLink Resource Guide for Public Libraries 
  • Be a Canva Master! 
  • New & improved courses available on DigitalLearn.org ​
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Oconto Falls Community Library brings the zoo to Oconto Falls

7/14/2022

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a pavillion full of people listen to a presentation by a New Zoo staff member
The Oconto Falls Community Library brought the NEW Zoo & Adventure Park's Zoomobile to the West Side Beach in Oconto Falls for an "edZOOcational" program on June 24, 2022.

Attendees also got to touch a real live bearded dragon at the end. As you can see in the picture below (left), it was very popular, with a long line to see it up close. According to one of the kids in attendance, "The bearded dragon felt just like touching a shark.” Although in a follow-up question he admitted to never having touched a shark.

All the kids in attendance were given a safari animal craft to take home with them.

The library counted 176 in the audience - of which 129 were kids/teens.

The Zoomobile program and safari animal take-home craft were funded by a Youth Services Support Grant from the Nicolet Federated Library System.

attendees line up to touch a bearded dragon
The Zoomobile is wrapped in green
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Earthaven Museum Visits Gillett

7/11/2022

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adults and children explore tables full of fossils
mother & child explore fossils together
presenter holds rock full of fossils for onlookers
Earthaven Museum visited Gillett Public Library on June 17 with a myriad of fossils of coral and sea life collected from Oconto and Door Counties.

Michael Riesch explained to kids and their parents the process of fossilization and how Wisconsin has changed over millions of years. He brought numerous specimens of trilobites, clams, and coral.

Attendees were invited to inspect and examine the ancient artifacts. Every child left the library with a little fossil to call their own at the end of the program.
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Holy Cow! Stephenson Public Library welcomes special guests at Summer Story Time

7/1/2022

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Holy cow! The Stephenson Public Library in Marinette had special guests at a recent Summer Story Time, Scar and Delilah.

Scar, a 4-year-old cow, and Delilah, a 2-week-old calf, were at the library courtesy of Troy Olsen of Wojciehowski Bros Dairy Farm. In addition to catering to Scar's sweet tooth with bananas and granola bars, the kids got a chance to bottle feed Delilah.

​The Stephenson Public Library is one of seven branches of the Marinette County Consolidated Public Library Service. Visit the library's calendar of events to see what its branches have going on all year long.

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A child feeds milk from a bottle to a calf while others wait in line for their turn.
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A child feeds milk from a bottle to a calf.
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Click this image for more details about the library's June 21, 2022 story time on its Facebook post.
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July webinars (curated by NEWI)

7/1/2022

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Check the NEWI list of free webinars to find online continuing education opportunities you may attend from where you are. Most sessions are 60 minutes long and are provided at no charge to you by associations, agencies, companies, and library systems. Here’s a sample of topics that may be of interest to you. Click the "+" next to each category to view webinars, then click titles to register.
Managing stress & building resilience:
  • 5 Skills to Help You Feel Unstuck - Noon on Wednesday, July 13
  • Emotional Skills: Beyond Brené Brown's Atlas of the Heart - 6pm on Thursday, July 14
  • Mental Health Wellness: How Employers Should Evolve with Employee Expectations - 2pm on Thursday, July 21
  • The Overcomer in You - 3pm on Thursday, July 21
  • Wellness and Resilience Strategies - 9am on Friday, July 22
  • The Relationship Between Personal Stress and Community Resilience - 11am on Tuesday, July 26
Diversity, equity, and inclusion:
  • More than Lip Service: Making Diversity, Equity and Inclusion a Reality at Your Org - 1pm on Wednesday, July 6
  • Compliant Hiring Best Practices: Removing Bias and Discrimination - 2pm on Wednesday, July 6
  • There’s a Week for That: Exploring Federal Government Resources for Diverse Weekly Celebrations - 1pm on Thursday, July 14
  • Why Are We Still Having Hard Conversations? - 10am on Wednesday, July 20
  • Believing the Unseen: Invisible Disabilities - Noon on Wednesday, July 27
  • Managing Implicit Bias in Your Library – 1pm on Thursday, July 28
A sample of webinars on other topics:
  • Weed ‘Em and Reap: Getting Your Collection from Awful to Awesome - 2pm on Thursday, July 14
  • Cheat Sheets Made Easy: Creating Job Aids for Employee Training - 3pm on Wednesday, July 20
  • The Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table Guide to Addressing Comic Book Bans, Censorship, and Challenges - 1pm on Thursday, July 21
  • 5 Signs of a Toxic Work Environment and How to Fix It - 3pm on Monday, July 25
  • The Post-Pandemic Library: Managing Issues Now That They are Our Daily Routine - 1pm on Wednesday, July 27
  • Empower Your Library Against Book Bans - 3pm on Thursday, July 28
Special event this month:
  • Where Intellectual Freedom and Social Justice Meet: A Call to Action, a Freedom to Read Foundation symposium - 11am-3pm on July 12 and 13

NEWI is a continuing education (CE) partnership of library systems located in North Eastern Wisconsin.  The NEWI website aims to be a central source of CE info for staff working at libraries in four library systems: Manitowoc‐Calumet Library System (MCLS), Nicolet Federated Library System (NFLS), Outagamie Waupaca Library System (OWLS), and Winnefox Library System (WLS).
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Nic News Weekly: July 1, 2022

7/1/2022

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Here are the headlines from the July 1, 2022 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:  
  • NFLS office closed on July 4th 
  • $250 WLA scholarship for staff of small libraries
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