Here are the headlines from the September 8, 2023 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:
Subscribe to Newsletters from NFLS September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month and a great opportunity to remind members of our communities of the many benefits of holding a library card. Once again, OWLS and NFLS libraries will be receiving a generous supply of promotional stickers to help celebrate this time of the year. There are five new designs this year! Use this use this marketing toolkit to help you promote Library Card Sign-Up Month in your community. The marketing toolkit is filled with graphics and sample Facebook posts to help you get the word out. Each of the graphics has been set up as a customizable Canva template so that you can tailor it to your specific audience. Here are a few samples of what you will find: The stickers have just arrived at the OWLS and NFLS offices and we are busy sorting and getting these ready to send out a supply to each member library. The stickers will be mooooo-ving out to the libraries next week.
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. Click the event title to learn more and register. Featured webinarThere's an App for That?! Wisconsin Social Services Apps, August 9, 11am - 12pm This webinar will feature two apps and a mobile-optimized website to more easily find social services in Wisconsin that can address needs ranging from healthcare, childcare and housing, to judicare (legal needs) and driver's license restoration from wherever they have an internet connection. Here are the three services that will be covered:
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Please check the NEWI calendar of free webinars to find online continuing education opportunities you may attend from where you are. Most sessions are 60 minutes long and are provided – at no charge to you – by associations, agencies, companies, and library systems. There’s a lot to choose from, so here’s a sample of topics that may be of interest to you this summer. Click the event title to learn more and register. Webinars
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Subscribe to Newsletters from NFLS Please check the NEWI calendar of free webinars to find online continuing education opportunities you may attend from where you are. Most sessions are 60 minutes long and are provided – at no charge to you – by associations, agencies, companies, and library systems. There’s a lot to choose from, so here’s a sample of topics that may be of interest to you this month: Upcoming free webinars
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Here are a few free live and recorded webinars you might enjoy. Please check the NEWI list of free webinars to find online continuing education opportunities you may attend from where you are. Most sessions are 60 minutes long and are provided – at no charge to you – by associations, agencies, companies, and library systems. There’s a lot to choose from, so here is a sample of topics that may be of interest to you. Starting Wednesday, January 25: Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference 14 webinars in 2 days, all for free! Register here to watch live or receive the recordings to your inbox. Managing Stress & Building Resilience
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Working With What You’ve Got: Practical Tips for Improving Your Library’s Website was presented by Laura Solomon for the Southwest Wisconsin Library System on December 14, 2022.
Even when you don’t have full control over your library’s website, you can take some small, important steps to improving your users’ experience. Learn how to write better for the web, tweak navigation and graphics, and other important, small fixes to assist in creating a website that solves your user’s problems, not adds to them. Maybe you can’t rebuild from the ground up, but you can make things better! Here are the headlines from the September 23, 2022 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:
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Subscribe to Newsletters from NFLS Creating Accessible Content
Recorded August 10, 2022 This webinar from the Maine Department of Education’s Maine CITE Program walks participants through the steps of creating accessible content in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. Many of these tools and techniques carry over to other platforms, such as Google Docs. (It also does an excellent job explaining what digital accessibility is and gives tips that also apply to websites.) Here are the headlines from the July 15, 2022 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:
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