Check out the headlines from the 01/24/2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly.

• Free Programming Resources for Earth Day
• Join the WLA Mentorship Program!
• 2020 Collection Development Grants: Coming Soon
• Now Hiring: Youth Services Manager for Brown County Library (Central Library)
  
• An Introduction to Creating a Library Marketing Plan
• Voices of Women in America: Survey Due January 31

Below are the headlines from the latest 📢 Nic News Weekly

• Youth Services Support Grants
• Collection Development Grants
• Supporting Child Care Providers & Maximizing Maker Efforts
• New Customer Service Online Training, via Ryan Dowd
• Continuing Education Funding
• Library Legislative Day: Registration Closes TODAY
• January 22-23: Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference

Tessa Michaelson Schmidt, from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, wrote a post for the Wisconsin Libraries for Everyone blog regarding two distinct national projects with resources to help us and our community:

• The Growing Providers Tool Kit includes lots of ideas and program models for how libraries can support child care. It also includes a Child Care Provider Resource Guide. 
• Opportunities and Vignettes for Library Makerspaces is a white paper informed by the participants of the National Forum on Research and Assessment in Library Makerspaces.

​Both projects have recently published the results, and Tessa feels the content is high-quality and valuable. Regardless of the size of your library or scope of service, she hopes you will consider these tools. ​

Below are the headlines from the latest 📣 Nic News Weekly newsletter.

• New Mileage Reimbursement Rate for 2020
• FREE Courses on Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Free webinars on teen outreach, guiding staff through change, programs for babies & more this month (NEWI)
• Website Accessibility Checks Anyone Can Do
• Are You Using Images Legally? Get FREE Sources Below!
• Time to Register for Library Legislative Day

See below for WiLS learning opportunities in January - February 2020:

Check out more Upcoming Events that WiLS is hosting at
​https://www.wils.org/wils-events/wilsevents/upcoming-events/.

Date and time:Tuesday, January 14, 2020 1:00 pm
Program: Booklist Webinars
Duration:1 hour

Join Booklist for this exciting Q and A with four of the five authors nominated for YALSA's 2020 William C. Morris Debut Award, an honor presented annually to first-time authors writing for teens.

Featuring conversations with Ben Philippe (The Field Guide to the North American Teenager), David Yoon (Frankly in Love), Katy Rose Pool (There Will Come a Darkness), and Nafiza Azad (The Candle and the Flame), this free, hour-long webinar will be moderated by Booklist Books for Youth editor—and Morris Award Committee consultant—Sarah Hunter and sponsored by HarperCollins Children’s Books, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Penguin Young Readers, and Scholastic.

​For more information about the Morris Award, visit http://www.ala.org/yalsa/morris-award.

Below are the headlines from the latest 📣 Nic News Weekly newsletter.

• 2019 Library Improvement & Innovation Grant Purchase
• Libraries Transform Communities: Engagement Grant
• WI Libraries Transforming Communities Info Webinar Recording
• 2020 Census Resources at @ WVLS
• Youth Services & SLP 2020 Workshop: Registration Open!
• Voices of Women in America: Survey Due January 31, 2020
• Attend Library Legislative Day on February 11, 2020
• The NFLS office will be closed Dec. 24-25 & Dec. 31 - Jan. 1. 
• Trying something new