Below are the headlines from the latest 📣 Nic News Weekly newsletter.

• 2019 Library Improvement & Innovation Grant Purchase
• ALA Announces Free Facilitation Skills Training for Small & Rural Library Workers: Applications Due January 20, 2020
• Registration Open for Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference
• Important Update on the CSLP 2020 Artwork and Products
• Marinette County Libraries’ New Website
• PLA Awards & Grants Applications - DUE TODAY

The Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference is a state-wide web conference developed by the Nicolet Federated Library System and supported by 15 other library systems in Wisconsin since 2013.

This year, we welcome two new session tracks in Adult Services and Library Management. ​

WHERE: Stephenson Public Library - Marinette
WHEN: Thursday, December 5th, 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM (Doors open 9AM)

Topics will include the following:

• Compassionate Accountability: Dealing with Problem Behaviors in the Library
• Lunch and Learn: Breaking Down §43.30 Before the Police are Breaking Down Your Library Door!
  ​(RSVP is requested so we can get an accurate lunch count.)
• Purple Angel Program: Elderly and Dementia, Alzheimer's, Memory Care
• After 1:30, Marinette County Library staff will receive a walk-through of their new website and receive training on maintaining its pages in Weebly. Other libraries are welcome to attend/observe should they choose.

See detailed agenda below:

Below are the headlines from the latest 📣 Nic News Weekly newsletter.

• ​SAVE THE DATE: NFLS Regional Training December 5
  
• 2019 Library Improvement & Innovation Grant Purchase
• NFLS Website Updates
• Happy Thanksgiving!
• Super Search Training Materials Updated (BadgerLink)
• LearningExpress Library: New and Updated Content (Badgerlink)
• Library Census Equity Fund Mini-Grant: APPLICATIONS DUE TODAY (ALA)
• 3-Question Survey: Feb. Youth & Teen Services Workshop (NEWI)
• NFLS Librarians' Advisory Committee Meeting @ Gillett December 6th

Below are the headlines from the latest 📣 Nic News Weekly newsletter.

• 2019 Library Improvement & Innovation Grant Purchase
• NSLA Summer Learning Awards: Win $10,000!
• Census 2020 Webinar: Tuesday, December 3
• 2020 WAPL Conference Call for Proposals
• Jeff Quinn's SRP Library Magic Show
• ALA Accepting Applications for Library Census Equity Fund Mini-Grants (Apply by Nov 22)

At the WLA conference, DPI presented a session called Say Yes to Census 2020. In case you couldn’t make it, the session will be repeated as a state-wide webinar: Say Yes to Census 2020 Webinar (Tuesday, December 3, 1:30 PM).
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Get the lowdown on all the ways you can say YES to Census 2020. Census 2020 counts will potentially create changes to political representation and Federal funding and inform your local data. Good numbers are important and libraries can--and should--help! Whether you're in a school, public or academic library, there's information here for you on this timely topic. Presented by Cindy Fesemyer and Monica Treptow, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Below are the headlines from the latest 📣 Nic News Weekly newsletter.

• WLA Conference Keynote and Streamed Recordings
• MyVote WI - Offline Nov 14-16, 2019
• ALA Accepting Applications for Library Census Equity Fund Mini-Grants
• OverDrive Big Library Read Now Available
• Hiring: Maintenance Technician, Library (Sturgeon Bay)
• NEWI List of FREE WEBINARS