Sharing a few announcements from UW-Madison iSchool:

• We are able to award six (6) certification course scholarships for this fall! Applications are due by 5pm Friday, August 2. Anyone needing to take a certification course this fall who is planning to apply for a scholarship could register and pay, and we would refund that money if the scholarships are awarded. Otherwise, they could wait to register until the week of August 12th, when we announce the winners (with the caveat that if they’re paying by check it may be better to get that done first and get a refund depending on how long their library’s process is likely to take). Scholarship information is here: https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/certification-scholarship.
• Fall 2019 class registration is now open! If you have any new directors who need to sign up for certification courses, now is the time to remind them to register. Registration information is here: https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education. This fall’s certification courses are:
  • Basic Public Library Administration: September 16 - December 8, 2019
  • Advanced Public Library Administration: September 9 - December 1, 2019
  • Public and Community Library Services: September 16 - December 8, 2019​

Eight scholarships of up to $350 each will be awarded to current or future library professionals who may face barriers to attending WiLSWorld. 

​People from underrepresented groups in librarianship are strongly encouraged to apply, as are library school students, folks that have to stay overnight to make the travel work, and new professionals. ​Apply by July 1, 2019.

A few announcements from UW-Madison iSchool CE:

Certification course scholarship applications are now open, and applications for fall courses are due by Friday, August 2. If you are a library director who is going to be taking director certification courses, please look at this. iSchool  especially strongly considers directors who are paying some or all of the registration costs out of their personal pocket, or who are working in libraries for which the cost of these courses is a substantial budgetary burden. iSchool will be awarding three scholarships for the fall courses. Application information is at https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/certification-scholarship/.
 
There are three certification courses coming up this fall. Registration will open in July:

• Basic Public Library Administration: September 16 – December 8, 2019
• Advanced Public Library Administration: September 9 – December 1, 2019
• Public and Community Library Services: September 16 – December 8, 2019

The call for proposals is now open for Lead the Way: Libraries at the Heart of Community Engagement. This conference will take place at the Pyle Center in Madison, WI from April 20-21, 2020. All selected proposals will receive one complimentary conference registration, which may be divided however the presenters of that session choose.

Summer classes are open for registration. There is a 10% early bird registration discount: https://ischool.wisc.edu/continuing-education/  
 
Please feel free to drop Meredith Lowe or Anna Palmer a line if you have any questions or comments.

Lead the Way: Libraries at the Heart of Community Engagement
April 20-21, 2020     |     Madison, WI

​Full details:  https://go.wisc.edu/ischool-engage

Call for Proposals: Lead the Way
Do you have ideas to share about engaging your community? If you have a passion for community engagement, consider submitting a program proposal. See the details below, and mark it on your calendar. Be on the lookout for more information to come, including PLD scholarships to help Wisconsin library workers to attend. 

Lead the Way: Libraries at the Heart of Community Engagement is an ideal venue to share your exciting projects and practices!  Librarians and staff from all types of libraries are invited to attend and present. ​The program committee will accept proposals until September 6, 2019.  Read more from the iSchool @ UW-Madison below.

NFLS is offering a 2019 $300 scholarship opportunity to its library members who wish to attend WLA's Leadership Development Institute Scheduled August 7-9, 2019 at the Madison Public Library.

Scholarship grant application forms are due May 15, 2019. 

Grant funds are to be used in the areas of Workforce Development, Lifelong Learning, and/or Technology. Collaboration with other libraries is encouraged, but not necessary.

This grant is a onetime only grant, available to NFLS member libraries.  Sustainability for any projects started with I&I grant funding should be considered and accounted for in the recipient library’s budget.
 
Upon completion of the grant project, recipients will be required to give a brief report to the NFLS Advisory Committee of Librarians and work with NFLS on a short publicity presentation. Grant application forms are due June 3, 2019.