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Below are the headlines from the 03/20/2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:
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Below are the headlines from the 03/13/2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:
Web accessibility is essential for people with disabilities and useful for all. The following video is provided by the W3C WAI to help us learn about the impact of accessibility and the benefits for everyone in a variety of situations. The video is also broken into shorter segments. Click the "Read More" link below to see these shorter videos.
Please see below the call for program proposals from the WLA Conference Program Committee: The WLA Programming Committee is now accepting proposals for the 2020 WLA annual conference! The conference will be held in Green Bay from October 27-30 at the KI Convention Center. The Conference already boasts a fantastic lineup of keynote speakers, including Sarah Vowell, Stephen Franck and Nigel Poor. Now we invite you to share your expertise and experiences with your colleagues this October. Go to the NEWI list of free webinars to find continuing education opportunities in which you can participate without leaving your library; 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 webinars offered this month; click on a title to register: The conference has been cancelled. Get more information at https://dalinc.org/wp/conference/. For those who have already submitted payment, you will receive a full refund via your payment method. If you have not received your refund by April 8, please contact Susan Ebertz, treasurer@dalinc.org. Linda Hofschire, the Director of the Colorado State Library’s Library Research Service and the mind behind the Research Institute for Public Libraries (RIPL), will be the morning keynote at the event. Please share this opportunity with anyone you know who may not have been able to attend RIPL this summer and anyone who would benefit from learning about data and discovery. Registration is only $55!
Please join us for Driftless Libraries LINC-Up: Telling Stories with Data: Making numbers meaningful https://dalinc.org/wp/conference/ Loras College, Dubuque, IA April 3, 2020 from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm Below are the headlines from the 02/28/2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:
Below are the headlines from the February 21, 2020 📢 Nic News Weekly:
Mark Ibach and Jamie Matczak, along with Kathy Dempsey, discuss how a library can create a marketing plan using "The Cycle of True Marketing." They introduce a template that will be finalized soon and available for use. Below are the headlines from the February 14, 2020 📢 Nic News Weekly:
Libraries Transform®: Harrison Ford video PSA, Olympians named NLW honorary chairs, and more2/13/2020  Following are the headings in the February 13, 2020 Libraries Transform newsletter:
Infographics can explain complex ideas and convey a lot of information in a simple way that is accessible to many audiences. Libraries deal with a lot of data. Our products and services are sometimes difficult to break down into steps. A good infographic will take facts and figures, difficult instructions, or confusing concepts and present them in a way that everyone can understand.
The Together We Read program is open to all OverDrive library partners in your country. The title will automatically be added to your digital collection at the start of the program(*). To borrow the Together We Read title, your users will simply log in to your digital collection and the eBook will be prominently displayed on your OverDrive-powered website and discoverable through the digital library catalog. *Participation in the Together We Read program is on an opt-out basis.
Go to the NEWI list of free webinars to find continuing education opportunities in which you can participate without leaving your library; 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 webinars offered this month:
 Follow-up message from WiLS: It was wonderful to have you at our 2020 Membership Meeting last week. Thank you so much for being part of the community and for your interest in what we are doing to support our members. The meeting recording and slides are available. Also, we are excited to share that the WiLS 2019 Annual Report has been published and you can find it here. Please let us know at information@wils.org if you have any questions. Thank you! -- WiLS General Information information@wils.org See below for WiLS learning opportunities in February and March 2020: Looking to grow, professionally, in the next few months? Check out these free and convenient (as in, right from the comforts of your own office!) WiLS webinars and presentations coming up in February and March. Also, we are excited to share that we're offering another Good WiLS Ambassador opportunity, this time for the "E"ffordability Summit at UW-Stout in Menomonie on March 17-18th! Summit registration is free but if you apply by February 14th, you could receive up to $250 from WiLS for travel and accommodations.
Check out more Upcoming Events that WiLS is hosting at
https://www.wils.org/wils-events/wilsevents/upcoming-events/. Check out the headlines from the 01/24/2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly.
An Introduction to Creating a Library Marketing Plan
Thursday, Feb. 13, 1 pm 1 contact hour Register Except for the shelves of books, today’s libraries would be mostly unrecognizable to the patrons of 30 years ago. One of the challenges for libraries is finding effective ways to promote what they do, and developing a comprehensive marketing plan is an excellent starting point. A marketing plan provides focus to a library’s marketing efforts and ensures that limited resources are used effectively and efficiently. It helps keep you and your staff focused on the big picture of what you do—your vision and mission—and saves you time promoting individual events or projects. The marketing plan is the guide that provides order to your messaging and efforts. A state-wide public library system marketing cohort has drafted a marketing plan template that any library of any size can model and adapt. Based on Kathy Dempsey's "Cycle of True Marketing," Jamie Matczak and Mark Ibach will walk through the marketing plan template that has been developed, answer questions, and seek feedback before the plan is officially presented to Wisconsin libraries. This webinar will share:
Below are the headlines from the latest 📣 Nic News Weekly newsletter.
Go to the NEWI list of free webinars to find continuing education opportunities in which you can participate without leaving your library; 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 webinars offered this month:
Missed a webinar? It might have been archived, so check NEWI’s list of webinar recordings you can watch for free, anytime. Bonus: the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference will take place online via GoToWebinar on Wed & Thu Jan. 22 and 23. Fourteen webinars will be offered in 4 tracks + opening and closing sessions:  WildWiscWinterWeb.com 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.
 The sad reality is that most PDFs found online are not very accessible to screen reader users. For many PDFs, screen reader users can only access the words in the document and not the structure (like headings or lists). In an online survey of over 1000 screen reader users, over 75 percent of people said PDF documents are likely to pose significant accessibility issues. By contrast, just over 30 percent said the same thing about Microsoft Word documents. Considering the large number of PDFs on websites, this is very troubling. The good news is that the process for creating accessible PDFs can be very straightforward. For example, it often only takes a couple minutes to turn a well-structured and accessible source file (like a Word document) into an equally accessible PDF. Source: https://www.macfound.org/pages/get-started/pdf/ NFLS member library staff: if you need further assistance making your documents or media more accessible, please contact Lori Baumgart.
It takes a specialized skill set to conduct a complete web accessibility evaluation, but there are several things anyone can do to evaluate a website. Below are 6 things you can do without a knowledge of HTML. Start by watching this 6-minute video demonstrating these evaluation steps. Then use the details below to try it yourself. Below are the headlines from the latest 📣 Nic News Weekly newsletter.
Go to the NEWI list of free webinars to find continuing education opportunities in which you can participate without leaving your library; 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 webinars offered this month:
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). Wednesday, November 20, 2019 | 1-2 p.m. Central
Learn how outcome data can be used to guide programming changes, strategic planning, communication, advocacy, or new funding requests. REGISTER NOW!
This webinar is open to everyone. PLA’s Project Outcome is a free online toolkit designed to help public libraries understand and share the impact of their programs and services by providing simple surveys and an easy-to-use process for measuring and analyzing outcomes. Learn more at www.projectoutcome.org. |
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