Guest post by Shannon Nichola Stoner, Gillett Public Library Director
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Here are the headlines from the December 29, 2022 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:
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Guest post by Sarah Sugden, Director, Brown County Library
On October 5, 2022, Brown County Library (BCL) partnered with Achieve Brown County (ABC) and almost 40 supporting organizations to host a Reading Success Summit. Nearly 200 attendees, including business leaders, elected officials, education professionals, healthcare providers, youth advocates, and community members, gathered to learn and convene around a reading proficiency crisis in Brown County.
County Executive Troy Streckenbach shared opening remarks highlighting the impact of reading proficiency rates on the County’s economic success and workforce competitiveness. Jane Danowit, M.D., Bellin Health, and Cory Mathieu, Ph.D., UWGB, presented information on early brain development as well as the foundations of literacy. ABC’s Evidence Based Decision Making Manager, Christian Roovers, provided county reading proficiency data and a summary of community listening sessions held over the past six months. Sharing the keynote presentation was Scott Hall, Senior Vice President of Civic & Community Issues for the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. Hall spoke on building tomorrow’s workforce through kindergarten readiness and early intervention. Enhancing these presentations were three videos created for the Summit by award-winning filmmaker Khrome.
Library cardholders can check out a daily admission pass from the Farnsworth Public LibraryBetween Tuesday, November 1, 2022 and March 1, 2023, library card holders can check out a daily admission pass from the Farnsworth Public Library and 19 other participating libraries throughout Wisconsin. The passes will be valid for free admission for one vehicle at any state park, forest or recreation area where admission is required. Check Out Wisconsin's State Parks At Your Library is a collaborative effort between the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries, and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Nicolet Federated Library System and Southwest Wisconsin Library System underwrote the day passes cost.
Here are the headlines from the October 21, 2022 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:
Subscribe to Newsletters from NFLS With the Nicolet Federated Library System (NFLS) continuing education funds (and a bit more help from the Friends of Shawano County Libraries, Inc.), Shawano County Library was able to send three of its staff members to the Association of Rural and Small Libraries (ARSL) conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from September 14-17, 2022. Those that attended were Paige Crawford, Cataloging Librarian; Cathy Pescinski, Teen Librarian; and Kristie Hauer, Director (shown from left to right). Kewaunee Public Library held its Petting Zoo on August 11. The library collaborated with its local FFA students, who brought their animals, and the FFA brought the pens. They featured area 4-H State Fair Champion rabbit hoppers, just back from showing at the State Fair. The library also collaborated with an area veterinarian clinic that has kittens available for adoption. The weather was beautiful this year and the library had an amazing turnout. (photos by Carol Petrina, Kewaunee Public Library) Here are the headlines from the August 26, 2022 - 📢 Nic News Weekly:
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The Oconto Falls Community Library brought the NEW Zoo & Adventure Park's Zoomobile to the West Side Beach in Oconto Falls for an "edZOOcational" program on June 24, 2022. Attendees also got to touch a real live bearded dragon at the end. As you can see in the picture below (left), it was very popular, with a long line to see it up close. According to one of the kids in attendance, "The bearded dragon felt just like touching a shark.” Although in a follow-up question he admitted to never having touched a shark. All the kids in attendance were given a safari animal craft to take home with them. The library counted 176 in the audience - of which 129 were kids/teens. The Zoomobile program and safari animal take-home craft were funded by a Youth Services Support Grant from the Nicolet Federated Library System. Earthaven Museum visited Gillett Public Library on June 17 with a myriad of fossils of coral and sea life collected from Oconto and Door Counties.
Michael Riesch explained to kids and their parents the process of fossilization and how Wisconsin has changed over millions of years. He brought numerous specimens of trilobites, clams, and coral. Attendees were invited to inspect and examine the ancient artifacts. Every child left the library with a little fossil to call their own at the end of the program. |
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