Keep up-to-date with the Wisconsin Schools Digital Library Consortium (WSDLC)

WiLS is happy to be a partner and the project manager for the WSDLC.  For those of you new to the project, the intent of the WSDLC is to develop a shared collection of ebooks and other materials that will be available to all participating districts and schools in the state.  The expectation is that the collection will maximize the effectiveness of expenditures on digital library materials and addresses the inequity across districts through a shared digital collection. There will be three distinct collections: one for K-4, one for 5-8, and one for 9-12. The plan is to have the collections available for use by Fall 2017.

Our expectation is that the cost to participate for a school or district will be between $1 and $2 per student.  Common School Funds will be able to be used to fund participation in the collection.

We’re looking for tentative commitments and other feedback:

–If you’re tentatively ready to commit to the project, complete our tentative commitment form.

–If you’d like to provide us some feedback, including letting us know what information you need to commit, complete this brief survey.

We’d also encourage you to join the Google Community and watch the project website  to keep updated with all of the information about the consortium.  We also expect to have a session at the WEMTA Conference about the consortium.  We’ll post more details to the website as we have them.

For questions, please contact Sara Gold, or Stef Morrill at