Below are the headlines from the 07/05/2019 - 📣 Nic News Weekly newsletter.

• How are you using your 2019 Youth Services Support Grant?
  
• July 11 Webinar: Hooray for Freedom! Part One: Privacy, Confidentiality, and Intellectual Freedom in the Library
  
• New Release ‘The Public’ Available July 2 with Swank License
  
• Facebook Adds 22 Free Training Modules to Facebook Blueprint
  
• Six WI Public Library Director Certification Course Scholarships
  
• 2019 Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame Nominations Requested
  
• Transparent Language Online: New Features
  

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​

Below are the headlines for the 06/14/2019 - 📣 Nic News Weekly newsletter.

• 2019 Library Improvement & Innovation Grants Awarded
• NEWI-Area Library Staff Named Members of 2019 Youth Services Institute Cohort
  
• WLA 2019 Awards: Now Accepting Applications
  
• Door County Library is Hiring
  
• WiLS Ideas to Action Fund: Applications Due Today
  

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.

Below are the headlines for 05/31/2019 - 📣 Nic News Weekly newsletter.

• Nic News Weekly is on the NFLS Website
  
• Are you planning a visit to a legislator's office while at ALA?
  
• Trustee Training Week: August 12–16, 2019
  
• Public Comment on WisDOT ADA Transition Plan
  
• 2019 WI Public Libraries CE Survey
  
• 2019 LIBRARY IMPROVEMENT AND INNOVATION GRANT
  

Below are the headlines for 05/24/2019 - 📣 Nic News Weekly newsletter.

• Things got a little wild at the NFLS office last week!
• WiLS Ideas to Action Fund: Submissions Due May 31
• Water Summit June 4-6, Door County
• iSchool CE Payment Policy Change
• Programming & Resource Ideas for Libraries
• 2019 LIBRARY IMPROVEMENT AND INNOVATION GRANT

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.