Academic libraries

Nov 20

New Direct Discount Opportunities for WiLS Members

WiLS is pleased to share that we have partnered with CESA Purchasing and Minitex to expand the options for direct discount opportunities for WiLS members! As a result, you can save money on furniture, paper, printing, scanners, and much more.

WiLS has teamed up with CESA Purchasing to extend their vendor agreements, with companies such as Quill, to educational institutions in the state, including most K12, public, and academic libraries. Read more about CESA Purchasing, see a list of their vendor partners, and find ordering information.

Our close partners across the border at Minitex have also graciously extended their library product catalog to all WiLS members. Read more about our Minitex partnership, see a list of vendors in their catalog, and get details on how to order.

Sep 25

Wisconsin Libraries Celebrate Banned Book Week

It’s time to celebrate the work libraries all over the world do to protect free speech, make information available to their communities, and continue the fight against censorship during Banned Books Week! We love to see and share the ways that Wisconsin libraries are contributing. Here are just a few highlights:

Carroll University’s Todd Wehr Memorial Library staff is showing off their favorite banned books
Mount Horeb Public Library is snapping photos of patrons (and former library directors!) caught reading banned books
UW-La Crosse’s Murphy Library’s local news caught on tape how the library is celebrating the week
Dane County Library Service is hosting Take It Off the Shelf! featuring Forward Theater Company actors reflecting on banned books.
Marian University has a banned books display and is hosting a panel, including Cardinal Meyer Library Director Kathryn Johnston, to discuss censorship. There will also be banned book trivia!

How are you celebrating? Let us know!

Aug 11

Mendeley Institutional Edition Webinar, August 20: Bring Your Library to the Center of the Research Community

If you want to make your library the center of research collaboration, join Swets’ webinar to learn how Mendeley Institutional Edition (MIE) is your ticket into the heart of the social research community. Students and researchers throughout the world are avidly sharing, collaborating, publishing and accessing a wealth of information and with MIE, you’re granted real-time insight into content usage to help you stay informed on research activity, content trend analysis, altmetrics and so much more. Register here for Wednesday, August 20th – 12:00 – 12:30 PM CST.

Jun 24

New and Updated Ebook Collections from Gale

GALE is pleased to announce that four of the new Academic eBook Collections featuring some of our new Springer and Elsevier monographs and other publishers’ content are now complete.

May 14

Finals @ Your Library

As graduation nears, academic libraries around the state have done a bunch of interesting things to keep their students focused and sane, in addition to providing extra staffing and staying open late. Here are some highlights: Read more

Apr 7

OCLC Learning Opportunity: Tailoring Assessment Strategies for Your Library

OCLC’s Collective Insight series offers this opportunity to learn to define the practice of assessment, explore what drives a successful assessment program, and identify practical tools and techniques that may be tailored to use in reaching the specific assessment goals of your library. Join OCLC and the Boston Library Consortium on April 22nd from 830-12:00 ET for this free webinar.

Feb 6

Get the New Issue of NextSpace

The newest issue of NextSpace has arrived. Learn the next trend affecting libraries and the next step that will help libraries create value and shape their future in Issue 22 – What keeps you up at night? (And what are you doing about it?)

Feb 5

Coming in March 2014: WorldCat Discovery Services

In March 2014, OCLC will release WorldCat Discovery Services, a new suite of cloud-based applications that brings FirstSearch® and WorldCat® Local services together, making it possible for more than 18,000 FirstSearch libraries to offer a richer discovery experience for users.

Jan 23

New digital collection: History of UW-Stout

A new digital collection from the University of Wisconsin-Stout Archives looks at more than a century of vocational education in northwest Wisconsin. Read more

Jan 21

Calling all Interlibrary Loan Staff!

Register today for the 2014 ILL Meeting brought to you by Resources for Libraries and Lifelong Learning & WiLS!

Posts from the ‘Academic libraries’ Category

New Direct Discount Opportunities for WiLS Members

Wisconsin Libraries Celebrate Banned Book Week

Mendeley Institutional Edition Webinar, August 20: Bring Your Library to the Center of the Research Community

New and Updated Ebook Collections from Gale

Finals @ Your Library

OCLC Learning Opportunity: Tailoring Assessment Strategies for Your Library

Get the New Issue of NextSpace

Coming in March 2014: WorldCat Discovery Services

New digital collection: History of UW-Stout

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