Jan 6
Hats off to the St. Croix Falls Public Library and Elementary School Library for winning the Standing up for Rural Wisconsin Schools, Libraries, and Communities award! Tony Evers will present the award on January 31st in Madison to Youth Library Services Director Cole Zrostlik and St. Croix Falls Elementary Librarian Rita Platt. Read more
Dec 12
Read the summary from our regional meetings!
Earlier in the fall, libraries around the state got together for six regional meetings. We laughed, we cried, we talked about successes and challenges. Read more
Nov 20
Congratulations to Val Edwards, IMC Director at Monona Grove High School, who won the AASL newspaper naming contest. Read more
Nov 12
During World War II, the Kewaunee Shipbuilding and Engineering Company delivered 80 vessels to the United States government for wartime use. The Kewaunee Public Library has recently made available online nearly 300 photos Read more
Oct 22
Milwaukee Public Library will be debuting an Express Vending Library in the Westlawn area of Milwaukee, perhaps as early as next month.
Sep 20
The lower level of the Mulva Library at St. Norbert College has been transformed into the Mulva Studio. The space features collaborative and solitary spaces for study and reflection, state of the art technology including a TV studio suite, media:scape units, and a digital coffee table, and plenty of areas designed to inspire creativity.
Check out the article in the St. Norbert College Magazine or watch a video introduction featuring Kristen Vogel, library director.
Congratulations, Mulva Library!
Sep 13
Harness the collective knowledge of Wisconsin librarians by joining us for one of six regional community meetings hosted by WiLS and co-organized by WLA! Our topic this year is raising the visibility of the library in the community. Read more
Sep 13
The Marshall Community Library recently celebrated six months of providing postal services to their community! The first Village Post Office (VPO) in a library opened there in February 2013. Read more
Sep 10
The Wisconsin Historical Society is sponsoring a series of FREE webinars specifically tailored for public librarians. Interest in genealogy is growing, and these webinars will help librarians meet that growth with resources, research methods, services, and preparation.
The first two webinars focus on two of the most widely used genealogy websites, Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. Your patrons are likely to know these the best, so become more familiar with these complex websites by signing up for our webinars on September 16th and September 18th.
The webinar on September 24th will discuss the genealogy collections and services found at the Wisconsin Historical Society, one of the top 5 genealogy collections in the country. Lastly, for more information, websites, and resources to send you off, join us for the final webinar in the series on September 30th.
To sign up for any or all of these sessions, email asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.
All sessions are scheduled for 1:00-2:30pm and will be led by Lori Bessler, Reference Librarian and Outreach Coordinator for the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Library-Archives.
Sep 3
Wisconsin’s Rich Food Heritage
Friday, September 20, 2013
Steenbock Library at UW-Madison is celebrating Wisconsin’s wonderful food heritage with cookbooks, food tastings and a talk by a culinary historian Traci Nathans-Kelly. Food and eating satisfy more than nutrition; our culinary traditions reflect our culture and history. Cookbooks are shedding new light on women’s, local, and national history. Humble recipes hold hidden information about the lives of ordinary people as well as their churches, organizations and communities.
5:30–6:50 pm, Steenbock Library: Browse the 5,000-volume cookbook collection, watch cooking demos, sample foods, and learn about local food groups
7–8 pm, Ebling Symposium Center, Microbial Science Building: Hear Traci Nathans-Kelly present “Porcupine Meatballs: Finding History in Community Cookbooks”
Co-hosted by Steenbock Library with special guests Culinary History Enthusiasts of Wisconsin (CHEW), REAP Food Group, Food For Thought Festival, the GreenHouse Residential Learning Community, and Wisconsin Local Foods Journal.
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