WiLS 2020 Annual Membership Meeting
Thanks for joining us for WiLS 2020 Membership Meeting! The meeting recording and slides are available. Please let us know at if you have any questions.
Jan 21
Jan 17
WiLSWorld Shorts: Getting Started with Web Accessibility
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 15
Bloomsbury Architectural Resources + Fashion Central Special
Bloomsbury Architectural Resources
Bloomsbury Digital Resources is highlighting their architecture resources in January. In particular, we’ll be talking about Bloomsbury Architecture Library and eBooks available on Bloomsbury Collections.
Bloomsbury Architecture Library is a new digital platform created for the study of architecture, urbanism, and interior design across world cultures and throughout history, offering access to a carefully curated collection of fully searchable text and image content.
Bloomsbury Collections delivers instant access to quality research and provides libraries with a flexible way to build eBook collections across the humanities and social sciences. It contains over 6,000 titles, including many architecture titles both standalone and in sub-collections.
Bloomsbury Fashion Central
Bloomsbury is also offering limited-time special pricing on Bloomsbury Fashion Central, their hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress. They’re offering discounts for WiLS members that are even better than our usual deal with them.
WiLS is able to offer great discounts on these and all Bloomsbury Digital Resources products. As always, reach out to Jeff Brunner () for trials, pricing or more information.
Jan 14
Infobase offers 20+20 for 2020!
To celebrate the new year, Infobase is offering up to a 40% discount for WiLS Academic members. Subscribe now and you can take 20% off the list price on any product. You’ll also get an additional 20% off (for 40% total) on your second product. Contact Hayley Bloch () or Jeff Brunner () for quotes, trials and more information!
Jan 14
Going to ALA Midwinter? Share with us and win!
If you’re attending the ALA Midwinter conference this month, keep an eye out for new or innovative library products that WiLS should know about. We’re always on the lookout for what’s new in the library world for possible inclusion in our cooperative purchasing service. But no one from WiLS will be at this year’s conference. So, we’re looking to you to share anything cool or innovative you see from the vendors there. Sharing with us will enter you into a drawing for a $10.00 Visa gift card!
Entering couldn’t be easier. If you learn about a new database, eBook platform, streaming service or anything that you think WiLS should know about, snap a picture of it! Then, send the photo to and you’ll be entered into the drawing. Later in November, we’ll select a winner from all of the entries.
Not only do you stand to win $10.00, but you’ll be helping to boost the signal on something new and exciting for WiLS members. It might even lead to a new consortium purchase!
Jan 13
New Year’s Resolutions at WiLS CooP
Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash
Statistics tell us that most New Year’s resolutions are abandoned within two weeks of the new year. Today is the 13th day of the new year, so now is the time to offer your patrons some help in keeping theirs! Every month in 2020, WiLS will be highlighting resources that fit a theme.
In January , we are highlighting the theme of New Year’s Resolutions. We’ve hand-picked some resources from our vendor partners that we think fit in with this theme. Learn all about these great products before and don’t hesitate to contact us at with any questions or feedback! Read more
Jan 10
IGI Global Webinar for WiLS Members
On Thursday January 16th IGI Global ran a special webinar for WiLS members highlighting IGI Global’s journal content offerings for academic libraries. WiLS is considering IGI Global for inclusion among our vendor partners and putting their resources in front of members for feedback is an important part of that process. So, please check out to the webinar recording and learn about what they can offer!
Jan 7
WiLS Learning Opportunities and 2020 Events
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
WiLSWorld Shorts: The Importance and Impact of Diverse Children’s Books
This WiLSWorld Short has already occurred. You can watch the recording of the presentation here.
Dec 9
The First Meeting of the IMLS APP Community Memory Cohort
This fall, WiLS began a cooperative agreement with the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to mentor a cohort of ten small, rural, and tribal libraries around the country working on community memory projects. Read more
