Jan 17
Thank you for joining us at WiLSWorld Shorts on Friday, March 13th to learn about web accessibility with Ashley Dzick, Adjunct Professor, Humanities, Social Science, and Communications Department, Milwaukee School of Engineering. You can watch a recording of the webinar or view the slides – and let us know at if you have any questions!
Jan 7
Over the last several months, WiLS staff and board have been reevaluating our learning opportunities to better understand our members’ needs and to figure out better paths to meet them. Read more
Dec 19
This WiLSWorld Short has already occurred. You can watch the recording of the presentation here.
Dec 3
This Taco Tuesday has already happened but you can find the recordings here and register for upcoming Taco Tuesdays here. Read more
Oct 1
Join us for the next Taco Tuesday on December 3rd, 2019, from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm and hear vendor presentations from World Trade Press, Backstage Library Works, Primal Pictures, and EBSCO! Read more
Jul 18
This event has already occurred! You can watch the recording here.
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Jul 18
This event has already happened but you can visit all the recordings here!
Join us for the September 2019 Taco Tuesday on August 6th at 11:30 am to see short demonstrations from WiLS vendor partners on valuable products and services! This month we’ll feature the following vendors:
11:30-11:45 TrueSerials
11:45-12:00 FactCite
12:00-12:15 Tales2Go – Join Gwen Mak and Lysa Kenney to learn about how Tales2go, a subscription audio book service for K12 schools can help you add a cost-effective listening component to your students’ reading instruction. The service provides instant, unlimited and simultaneous access to over 9,100 high-interest audiobook titles from leading publishers to use on desktops, laptops and mobile devices in the classroom and beyond. Tales2go is used in a growing number of schools and districts across the U.S., including Los Angeles USD, Berkeley USD, and Heartland AEA.
12:15-12:30 PressbooksEDU – Is your institution supporting the creation or remixing of open educational resources (OER)? Learn about PressbooksEDU (https://pressbooks.com/educational-institutions/), an easy-to-use book formatting platform built with Open Educational Resources in mind that allows educators and faculty authors to easily create and remix open educational resources (OER) and open textbooks (without design staff), and enables universities to showcase the collection of OER and other publications produced by their institution.
The presentations will be recorded and shared as well.
Register to attend or read more about our Taco Tuesday programs.
Jul 18
This event has already happened! You can watch the recording of the whole thing or just the segments here.
Join us for the August 2019 Taco Tuesday on August 6th at 11:30 am to see short demonstrations from WiLS vendor partners on valuable products and services! This month we’ll feature the following vendors:
11:30-11:45: ProQuest’s Academic Video Online: ProQuest’s multidisciplinary video collection will allow you to never worry about overspending our video budget again. With one predictable subscription, get access to 67,000 streaming videos curated for the academic experience. From documentaries to training videos to Broadway performances, Academic Video Online has twice the content of any competitor – it’s far and away the industry’s most comprehensive multidisciplinary video solution. Your subscription includes access to an enhanced cinematic video interface, new virtual reality/360 video, and Build by Choice perpetual ownership credits.
11:45-12:00: AVP’s Aviary: Chris Lacinak will provide an overview of Aviary, a next-generation audiovisual streaming platform from AVP that offers publishers granular access controls to provide intended users with search, navigation, and playback across audio and video archives, collections, and files, pinpointing search results with playback exactly where a search term is found on the audio or video timeline. Aviary can be found at https://aviaryplatform.com/. Watch the explainer video in Aviary at https://weareavp.aviaryplatform.com/r/hm52f7jz70. Read more and watch videos about Aviary by reviewing the How to Aviary and 99 Problems blog series at https://blog.weareavp.com/.
12:00-12:30: Innovative Interfaces SkyRiver Bibliographic Utility: In this session, we will show you how SkyRiver provides high-quality MARC records that are easily accessed from Sierra or Polaris, with no limits on searches or downloads. You will see how SkyRiver can accommodate a variety of workflows – from single searches to batch searches, and how individual catalogers can personalize their own workstations and streamline their work with macro shortcuts.
The presentations will be recorded and shared as well.
Register to attend or read more about our Taco Tuesday programs.
Jun 25
This event has already occurred! Watch the slides, view the recording of the presentation, or check out a list of supporting materials.
This hour-long webinar will introduce participants to key concepts related to digital preservation work for libraries, archives, and cultural heritage institutions. Topics will include “why digital preservation?,” conducting an assessment of digital assets, and creating a digital preservation policy.
Webinar content will help prepare participants for conversations with their organizations’ key stakeholders such as administrators, IT personnel, and content creators. Participants will gain knowledge and confidence to navigate digital preservation discussions and advocate for their organization’s long-term digital asset management and preservation work. Join us for this free learning opportunity!
This webinar will be recorded and shared.
Emily Pfotenhauer
Program Manager
Recollection Wisconsin
Vicki Tobias
Program Coordinator
Curating Community Digital Collections
Jun 24
This event has already happened, but you can watch the recording or view the slides.
This month’s Potluck features Wisconsin users of Innovative Interface’s SkyRiver, a full-service bibliographic utility for cataloging. Join the discussion to learn about SkyRiver from those who are using and those who have considered using it.
Join the conversation and register to attend!
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