Below are the headlines from the September 11, 2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• I Love My Librarian Award Nominations Open
• Now Hiring: Library Director, Little Chute Library
• Now Hiring: Library Director, Kimberly Public Library
• BadgerLink Updates
  • Back to School with BadgerLink Resources
  • Resources Highlight: Black Voices

​Below are the headlines from the September 4, 2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• September Webinars Listing from NEWI
• September 17 Drive Thru Job Fair Locations
• New CCBC Website with Enhanced Search Features
• Nominations Now Open for IMLS National Medal for Museum and Library Service
• Collaborative Summer Library Program Newsletter
• How to Ignore Email Conversations in Microsoft Outlook
• Wildlife In Need Center: Connecting Communities through Wildlife Education
• Circulation Assistant - Egg Harbor Library

Congratulations to the Menominee Public Library on being awarded a $149,889 Native American Library Services Enhancement Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services!

With this grant, the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin will create and self-publish a series of books to encourage fluency in and preserve the Menominee language. Library staff will work with a trained immersion teacher to create eight simple books, four picture books, and one book of short stories with phonetic pronunciation and English translation for juvenile readers. The book of short stories will consist of original content from the Menominee people, collected from two Kataes esehcekasiq (Let's Do Things Together) Family Program (KEFP) writer's workshops hosted by the library. The project will allow books to be purchased and made available to the library, families with infants attending the immersion rooms at the Menominee Tribal daycare, elementary children attending reservation schools, and families that participate in KEFP. (Source: NAE-246595-OLS-20)

Read more at: ​IMLS Invests $5.2 Million in Library Services for Tribal Communities, Native Hawaiians

Below are the headlines from the August 14, 2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• New InfoSoup Catalog Launches this Weekend
• Back to School Considerations for Wisconsin Public Libraries
• Continuing Education:
  • Virtual Training: TeachingBooks' Diversity Toolkit
  • Making It Stick: Creating an Engaged Organization with Thriving Libraries
  • 19 Suffrage Stories: Help Create & Edit Wikipedia Content
  • Register for Library Journal's Fall Day of Dialog
  • Job Center of WI for Job Seekers Webinar Recording

Below are the headlines from the August 7, 2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• #LookToLibraries in Times of Crisis
• Beanstack & DPI Wisconsin "Hour of Power" Webinar: August 12
• Publishers Extend Permissions for Read Alouds
• Egg Harbor Public Library Looking for Branch Manager
• Fall Outdoor Concerts at the Library with Christian Strutz
• Continuing Education:
  • RIPL Webinar August 26 - Libraries Build Pathways to Wellbeing
  • Become a CDO: Prepare Your Library for Health Insurance Enrollment
  • Strengthen Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Practice Through Self-Paced Learning
  • ARSL Conference Registration
  • WebJunction Course Catalog

Below are the headlines from the 7/17/2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• Register now for Trustee Training Week 2020
• Three Things You Can Do to Promote Anti-Racism Efforts In Your Library
• COVID-19-related Cybercrime: Microsoft Takes Legal Action
• Marketing Materials for the "New" InfoSoup Coming this August
• Transition Planned In-Person Adult Programs to a Virtual Environment
• Antiracist Collection Development & Programming for Middle School & High School Youth (InfoPeople Webinar)

In order to encourage reading and classroom read-aloud experiences, and to support schools and public libraries forced to close by the escalating COVID-19 outbreak, Penguin Random House is permitting teachers, librarians and booksellers to create and share story time and read-aloud videos and live events, according to the following guidelines which have been extended to August 31st, 2020. This Open License is not meant to grant permission for the posting of any pre-recorded audiobook product.
 
For the full announcement please visit https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/penguin-random-house-temporary-open-license/​

Below are the headlines from the 06/12/2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• Power Up 2021 Conference: Call for Proposals
• Diverse BookFinder's Free Online Collection Analysis Tool
• Palaces for the People / Libraries as Social Infrastructure Discussion: Part 5
• Advancing Equity & Inclusion in the Workplace Symposium
• LearningExpress Library: Virtual Training
• Civic Engagement During the Time of COVID19
• Whose Turn is it Anyway? Online Board Gaming and Libraries
• myLIBRO App Demo Recording
• Positioning the Library for a Post-Pandemic Sustainable Future
  

Below are the headlines from the 06/05/2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• Public Libraries Reopening Guide
• Compassionate Accountability: Dealing with Problem Behaviors in the Library
• CARL Training Registration
• NEWI Update: Webinars in June
• Customer Service Online Training, via Ryan Dowd
• Crossroads: REALM Project Updates, Phase 1
• Youth Services Programming Palooza Recording

Below is an outline of the June 3, 2020 Crossroads newsletter from WebJunction:

• REALM Project Updates: Test Plan and Preliminary Literature Review Released
• Recent Articles on WebJunction
  • Social Library Collection
  • Thinking Outside: Libraries and Placemaking in Pandemic Times
  • Library Storytimes during COVID-19 – Connecting with Families
• Upcoming Webinars
  • Libraries Prepare to Answer Civil Legal Questions in Times of Crisis (6/11/2020)
  • Getting Started with Virtual Storytimes (6/16/2020)
  • Whose Turn Is It, Anyway? Online Board Gaming and Libraries (7/28/2020)
• Additional Online Learning

The call for proposals is now open for Power Up! Power Up is a leadership conference for library youth services managers and staff, and will be held in Madison, Wisconsin on March 25-26, 2021. Proposals are due by August 3, 2020. Submission details and instructions are available at https://go.wisc.edu/power-up-21.

• ​Q&A with Ryan Dowd – 1pm on Thursday, June 4
• Compassionate Accountability: Dealing with Problem Behaviors in the Library – 10am on Thursday, June 11
• Getting Started with Virtual Storytimes – 1pm on Tuesday, June 16
• Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries Mini-Conference – 2 – 5pm on Wednesday, June 17
• 5 Languages of Workplace Appreciation – 1:30pm on Thursday, June 18
• Is Strategic Planning Dead? Preparing for the Future When Tomorrow is Uncertain – 12pm noon on Monday, June 22
• Preparing Your Organization for Your Retirement – 9am on Wednesday, June 24
• Library Services to Latinos & Spanish Speakers – 2pm on Wednesday, June 24

Missed a webinar? It might have been archived, so check NEWI’s list of webinar recordings you can watch for free, anytime.
 
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).

Below are the headlines from the 05/29/2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• Wisconsin Youth Services Program Palooza Webinar
• NFLS Sponsoring Pulitzer Prize Nominee Nigel Poor at WLA Fall Conference
• Census 2020 Activities Resume
• Beanstack Tips
• Compassionate Accountability: Dealing with Problem Behaviors in the Library
• Free Recorded Webinars from Information School, UW-Madison
• Unemployment Insurance Basics: Assisting Library Patrons (Webinar)
• Upcoming WebJunction Webinars
• REMINDER: WiLS Ideas to Action Fund Applications are Due Monday, June 1st

Below are the headlines from the 05/15/2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• Palaces for the People/Libraries as Social Infrastructure Discussion
• WiLS Ideas to Action Fund: Apply by June 1st
• IMLS CARES Act Grants Available: Apply by June 12th
• Virtual & Remote Programming Resources from YSS & ALSC

Below are the headlines from the 05/08/2020 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:

• Welcome, Kim Meyers!
• Grant Opportunities
• Crossroads: Libraries and COVID-19
• In Times of Crisis: Managing Key Relationships
• Latest Youth Services Blog Posts on Youth Services During COVID-19 (WLA)
• Modified CSLP Summer Library Program Materials
• Miss Wisconsin Summer Library Program
• Ben's Bubble Show

This newsletter contains the following headlines:

• Libraries and COVID-19: Town Hall Recap, Evolving Resources, New Research Project
• Community Engagement Award.  OCLC is accepting nominations through May 31 for the new OCLC Community Engagement Award, recognizing libraries who have created impact and extended the library's reach through a recent project. Read more in the recent Next blog post and nominate your library for one of three $5000 awards.
• More Buy-In = Better Marketing.  In a guest post by Kathy Dempsey, read about the 2020 PLA panel session, The Marketing Value Proposition: Why Buy-In Makes All the Difference. Panelists shared strategies for helping library staff to understand the value of marketing and to support that work, even when it's not part of their jobs.
• Library Storytimes during COVID-19 – a Different Kind of Connection.  In part one of a two-part series, Saroj Ghoting, early childhood literacy consultant, looks at ways to adjust storytimes for virtual engagement. While virtual interactions are not the same as meeting face-to-face, this is a time to explore what works well in an online environment, what we can capitalize on, and what we can learn for the future.
• Upcoming Webinars
  • ​MAY 27: Online Reference and the Open Web: Boosting Strategies and Sources
  • JUNE 11: Libraries Prepare to Answer Civil Legal Questions in Times of Crisis
  • JUNE 16: Getting Started with Virtual Storytimes
• Additional Online Learning​

Please check the NEWI list of free webinars to find online continuing education opportunities you can attend from where you are, whether at work or at home. Most sessions are 60 minutes long, and are provided – at no charge to you – by associations, agencies, companies, and library systems.
 
For webinars on COVID-19, click on a title to register:

• Being Still in an Emergency – 1pm on Tue, May 5
• Reopening Lives with the Library – 1pm on Wed, May 6
• Guidelines for Reopening Wisconsin Public Libraries <-click to join at time of webinar – 2pm on Thu, May 7
• Safety Tips for Reopening Your Library (Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, presenter) – 1pm on Tue, May 12
• Maximizing and Measuring Virtual Programs – 1pm on Wed, May 13
• Connections Summit Online Conference includes these sessions:
  • Preparing Your Library for a Post-Quarantine Environment – 10:15am on Tue, May 19
  • Preparing and Implementing Tools to Re-Open Post Quarantine – Noon on Tue, May 19
• In Times of Crisis: Managing Key Relationships – 2pm on Thu, May 21

CSLP put together a set of modified summer library program materials for service during the time of COVID-19.
 
Below you will find instructions for how to access the additional resources (PDF download from CSLP, or editable docs using CSLP login). Beneath the instructions, you will also find a letter from CSLP about these materials.

How to Access: Online access will be made available at https://www.cslpreads.org/. A PDF version will be located on the front page of the website for easy printing and download capabilities (a red rectangular button—the large PDF downloads as soon as you click it). For a more editable version CSLP members are encouraged to sign into their CSLP account and access content from the online manuals.

Once logged into the Online Manual:

1. Scroll down to the “Artwork and Program Files” section of the manual
2. On the righthand sidebar locate the “Summer 2020 Reimagined” category
   
3. Click on the checkbox to the immediate right of “Summer 2020 Reimagined” to bring up a list of all the files, or
4. Click on the “+” icon to the right to bring up the age group categories.

Originally scheduled as part of our in-person Teen/Tween Programming Workshop, Katherine Schoofs is taking this program virtual:
 
Going the Distance: Library Programs for Teens and Tweens
Friday, May 8 from 10 - 11 a.m. Central Time
 
Providing programs for teens & tweens during 2020 requires ingenuity, creativity, flexibility, and good-natured courage. You are invited to attend this webinar to learn about innovative programs that allow teens and tweens to safely connect with the library & each other during unheralded times. Get ready to rethink what you thought you knew about programming and prepare to absorb and share inspiration with your colleagues. Katherine Schoofs of the Aram Public Library in Delavan will guide us through uncharted waters and inspire us to think about traditional programming in very UNtraditional ways to support regularly scheduled programs and the upcoming 2020 Summer Library Program. So buckle up, buttercup -- we’re about to have a boatload of fun.   
 
Register here!