WiLS member Carthage College will be hosting a screening of the highly-acclaimed film ‘Neither Wolf Nor Dog’ at 7:30 PM on Thursday, May 9th. Witness one of the most authentic films highlighting the modern experiences of Indigenous Americans. Featuring the late Chief David Bald Eagle, a Lakota soldier and actor, who had this to say about the film before his passing: “It’s the only film I’ve been in about my people that told the truth.”
You can learn more about the film and the screening on Carthage’s website: https://www.carthage.edu/live/news/24366#
Thanks to those who attended the WiLS 2018 Membership Meeting on Tuesday, February 13th and a heartfelt thank you to our inspiring and thought-provoking speakers:
Jessica MacPhail, Director, Racine Public Library
Lisa Viezbicke, Director, Beloit College Library
Tasha Saecker, Assistant Director, Appleton Public Library
Raina Bloom, Public Services Librarian, College Library, UW-Madison
For our members who missed the webinar today or would like to revisit the material, you can watch the recording or just view the slides. If you would like to see how people responded to our prompts about barriers and overcoming them, you can see those as well:
In a recent article in College & Research Libraries News, Alverno College librarian Dolores Skowronek described a new pilot project being undertaken by the library. A recent survey indicated that 62% of Alverno seniors had gone without a textbook due to cost. The library wanted to try to help students with textbook affordability.
As Skowronek points out, “offering Open Educational Resources (OER) and other textbook alternatives would be ideal, however, advocating for campus-wide acceptance and implementation of OER can be a lengthy and time-consuming process.” So, in order to offer immediate relief from the financial burden of expensive textbooks, Alverno librarians chose to offer a physical textbook collection.
We think this is a great idea worth sharing. While WiLS is strongly in favor of OER initiatives, we recognize that there can be obstacles to implementation. Skowronek’s article details their process in building this collection as a step in the right direction towards helping students with this urgent need. It’s also yet another great example of just how important the campus library is!
WiLS member, Fox Valley Technical College, was recently profiled by vendor partner Infobase. Librarian Val Magno was interviewed for the piece in which she shared all sorts of information about their library and how they work with and for their patrons. Check out Val’s excellent interview today!
And if you’re interested in learning more about Infobase resources, don’t hesitate to contact Jeff Brunner ().
The Fight for Libraries! has moved to the United States Senate. On April 26th, two “Dear Appropriator” letters began circulating in the Senate, one seeking $186.6 million for Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and the other $27 million for the Innovative Approaches to Libraries (IAL) program for FY 2018. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Susan Collins (R-ME) are again championing funds for LSTA, while Senators Reed, Grassley (R-IA) and Stabenow (D-MI) are leading the fight for IAL. Read more
Thanks to the work of the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC), the Wisconsin Historical Society, WiLS, and the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, 85,000 pages of pre-2005 newspapers from 12 communities around the state have been added to Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers! Funding from the WPLC as well as Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds awarded to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) made this project possible. Read more
After three years of collaborative planning and development, Wisconsin’s libraries, archives, historical societies, and museums are joining their peers around the country in providing free online access to their digital collections through DPLA. Nearly 400,000 records representing photographs, books, maps, artifacts and other historical and cultural resources from 186 collections are now part of DPLA. School children, genealogists, and scholars will be able to find unique materials from Wisconsin and about Wisconsin through DPLA’s website.
We are grateful for the work of Recollection Wisconsin’s core partners: Marquette University, Milwaukee Public Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WiLS, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, and the Wisconsin Historical Society. These Governing Partners each make ongoing in-kind commitments of staff time, expertise, technology infrastructure, and other resources to support the program.
Collaboration is one of our favorite things at WiLS. In fact, it is one of our organizational values. We believe that facilitating the sharing of information and ideas makes our members and us better able to serve others. LibGuides are one of the most popular resources we offer through WiLS and they are also a resource we get asked the most for assistance about. In the interest of collaboration and information sharing, we are pleased to offer examples of WiLS member LibGuides.
We would love to share your favorite LibGuide too! Please send a link to .
Thank you so very much to our members for sharing your time with us, and to those in the community who presented on what they are being inspired by:
Jean Anderson, South Central Library System
Melody Clark, WiLS
Meghan Dowell, Beloit College
Catherine Lavallee-Welch, UW-La Crosse
Kristin Vogel, St. Norbert College
For those that weren’t able to attend, or would like to revisit the meeting, check out the slides. We asked some questions of the meeting attendees, and while the polls are now closed, we will have all the responses available soon.
Wisconsin is one of the newest additions to the Digital Public Library of America’s growing roster of partners. The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA,http://dp.la) brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives and museums and makes them freely available to the world. Since launching in April 2013, DPLA has aggregated over 11 million items from hundreds of institutions across the United States. These items come from a national network of Content Hubs – large digital collections from institutions such as the Smithsonian and the National Archives, and Service Hubs – state or regional collaboratives that bring together digital collections from multiple partners.
Wisconsin’s first contribution to DPLA is slated to go live in early 2016. It will consist of nearly 400,000 records representing photographs, books, maps, artifacts and other historical resources from more than 200 libraries, archives and museums. Many of these materials document the histories of communities across the state, including thousands of resources digitized by the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center in partnership with dozens of public libraries. Other materials to be made available through DPLA in early 2016 encompass major research collections held by Wisconsin institutions, such as the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Freedom Summer Project and the American Geographical Society Library collections at UW-Milwaukee.
“Partnering with DPLA will not only provide significant exposure for our digital collections, but will enable transformative uses of our cultural heritage materials,” said Ann Hanlon, Head of Digital Collections and Initiatives at UW-Milwaukee and Chair of the Recollection Wisconsin Governing Board. “We are grateful for the leadership and coordination that WiLS has provided to enable Wisconsin to partner in this ambitious and groundbreaking effort.”
To read more about the Service Hub planning process, governance and implementation timeline, visithttp://recollectionwisconsin.org/dpla. For more information, please contact Recollection Wisconsin Program Manager Emily Pfotenhauer at .
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