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Subscribe to Newsletters from NFLS Here are Continuing Education opportunities from NEWI – for the months of June and July, 2024. Click the event titles to learn more and register. You are encouraged to register even if you cannot attend to receive links to recordings when available. Save the date! Upcoming webinars from Wisconsin Trustee Training Week: August 19 - August 23, 2024. Here’s a sample of what to expect this year:
Tech Days Wisconsin: September 17 - September 18, 2024. Here’s a sample of what to expect this year:
See the Wisconsin Libraries Professional Learning Calendar for conferences and other webinars from in-state. Upcoming webinars from around the web Visit the NEWI calendar of free webinars to find online continuing education opportunities you may attend from where you are. There’s a lot to choose from, so here’s a sample of topics that may be of interest to you:
Posted by Emily Rogers The State and System Inclusive Services group has been busy in 2024 exploring resources to help staff and patrons who may need additional support. The following is a list of recent resources and trainings shared within the IS group:
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Subscribe to Newsletters from NFLS As NFLS prepares to move its website to a new platform in the year 2025, this post replaces of many of the Additional marketing and communication tips, tools & resources links that have been provided on its Marketing and Communication resources webpage to date. At the top level, these resources categories include:
Continue below for links to these resources. . .
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Subscribe to Newsletters from NFLS Following are new continuing education opportunities from NEWI. Click the event title to learn more and register. You are encouraged to register even if you cannot attend to receive links to recordings when available. Spring Learning Webinar Series:
Indigenous Education Webinar: Developing and Establishing Indigenous Pedagogy Collections for the Library and Classroom – April 29 at 4:30pm The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) - American Indian Studies Program in partnership with CESA 12 is offering a unique opportunity to participate in a webinar to continue your journey of personal and professional development around First Nations Studies. Visit the event page to learn more. Register here. *NOTE: You must be present during the advertised date and time(s) to participate and watch the webinar. The webinars will NOT BE RECORDED. Additionally, participants do NOT have permission or authorization to record either via video or audio the contents of the session attending.* 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 March 2024 NFLS News for the latest news from a few of our member libraries, staff and trustees. Topics include:
Subscribe to the NFLS News $20,000 grant will help the library work with residents with disabilities to better access library facilities![]() Kewaunee Public Library has been selected as one of 310 libraries to participate in round two of Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities, an American Library Association (ALA) initiative that provides community engagement and accessibility resources to small and rural libraries to help them better serve people with disabilities. The competitive award comes with a $20,000 grant that will help the library improve accessibility to their building through improved automatic front doors and updates to their bathroom facilities. “We are so proud to be chosen for this amazing opportunity,” said Library Director Carol Petrina. “This grant will allow our library to better serve our residents with disabilities. It will make our building easier to access and ensure this population feels welcome and comfortable in our space.” As part of the grant, Kewaunee Public Library staff will take an online course in how to lead conversations, a skill vital to library work today. Staff will then host a community conversation with residents about what makes a building aging and disability friendly and use the grant funds to create a more welcoming building that is easier to access and use. In working with the Kewaunee County Aging-Friendly coalition, the library identified the connection between quality of life and the need for accessible spaces. If you are interested in getting involved or taking part in the conversation, please contact the Kewaunee Public Library at (920) 388-5015 or visit www.kewauneepubliclibrary.org for more information. Here are the headlines from the February 23, 2024 📢 Nic News Weekly:
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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 January 2024 NFLS News for the latest news from a few of our member libraries and others. Topics include:
Subscribe to the NFLS News Here are the headlines from the December 15, 2023 📢 Nic News Weekly:
Subscribe to Newsletters from NFLS Please read the following end-of-year update from NFLS Inclusive Services Representative Emily RogersAs your NFLS Inclusive Services rep, I wanted to share an end of year update with all of you from the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Action) Team. Wisconsin Libraries Talk about Race recently hosted a webinar titled Understanding and Challenging Implicit Bias in Decision Making. This training, conducted by Anne Phibbs from Strategic Diversity Initiatives, is archived on The IDEA’s website if you missed it. Knowing how busy things are at the end of the year, I wanted to share some highlights and resources from this talk that you can browse at your leisure. Unconscious or implicit bias is unintentional. It is the way we automatically react to situations and people without conscious thought. It shapes our judgements about how we conduct ourselves and how we treat others, often without us even knowing it. This can impact who we interview and hire, who we trust, who we see as competent, and who we affiliate with both inside and outside our libraries. It can also impact our collections, programming, services, and policies. You might be asking, if I’m not even aware of these biases, how do I combat them? Well to begin with, understand that we all have these blind spots. We need to do the work to challenge our own thinking. When making decisions, slow down and try to consider all angles of the issue. Be objective. Ask others who think differently than you for their views. Become aware of your biases. The resources below can help you understand and combat your own biases.
I hope you can join us for the next training, Moving from Allyship to Leadership, on January 11 at 10am. Register for Moving from Allyship to Leadership here. Emily Rogers NFLS Inclusive Services Rep Deputy Director, Brown County Library |
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