Index
- Spring Green Seeks Library Director
- New Titles Added to SCLS Professional Collection
- Digital Byte: Supporting & Representing Indigenous People in the Library
- Wisconsin Library Users Checked Our More Than Seven Million Ebooks and Audiobooks in 2021
- PLA 2022 Virtual Conference Registration is Now Open
- WAPL 2022 Call For Proposals
- Continuing Education Calendar
Spring Green Seeks Library Director
The Spring Green Community Library Board of Trustees is accepting applications for a charismatic, organized, and creative individual to foster our thriving community library into the future.
The Library Director position requires possession or willingness to work towards Wisconsin Grade 3 Public Library Certification and progressively responsible library experience. An MLS from an ALA – accredited University and previous experience as a public library director are preferred.
Under direction of the seven-member board of trustees, the library director develops, administers, supervises, and coordinates the work of the library staff. Daily operations include managerial oversight related to personnel, budget, collection development, building maintenance, and library services and operations in compliance with the policies established by the Board of Trustees and the regulations of the state of Wisconsin. For a full job description visit springgreenlibrary.org.
Home to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, American Players Theater, the House on the Rock, and Tower Hill State Park, the vibrant village of Spring Green is the crown jewel of the River Valley, a place where nature and art meet. Just 45 minutes from Madison, our quiet village boasts endless recreational and creative opportunities in Wisconsin’s beautiful Driftless Region. The busy community library belongs to South Central Library System where we maintain a collection of over 35,000 items and circulate over 80,000 items each year with an annual budget of $270,830. Located in the village center, the Spring Green Community Library serves the village, the River Valley School District, and its outlying communities with a passionate staff, active Friends of the Library group, and widespread community support.
The Library Director position is full time with a salary range of $40,000- $50,000 as well as an excellent benefits package.
The position will remain open till filled.
Please submit a cover letter and resume to Linda Thering at lthering@frontier.com
New Titles Added to SCLS Professional Collection
The following titles have been added to the SCLS Professional Collection, which is available to staff at member libraries.
The Six-Step Guide to Library Worker Engagement by Elaina Norlin
Library Services and Incarceration: Recognizing Barriers, Strengthening Access by Jeanie Austin
Library IT Management in Times of Crisis by Jason Bengtson
Metadata Application Profiles by Theodore Gerontakos and Benjamin Riesenberg
Profiles in Resilience: Books for Children & Teens that Center the Lived Experience of Generational Poverty by Christina H. Dorr
Compact Copyright: Quick Answers to Common Questions by Sara R. Benson
Libraries & Sustainability: Programs and Practices for Community Impact edited by Rene Tanner, Adrian K. Ho, Monika Antonelli and Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
The Disaster Planning Handbook for Libraries by Mary Grace Flaherty
Library Signage and Wayfinding Design: Communicating Effectively With Your Users by Mark Aaron Polger
32 Virtual, Augmented, & Mixed Reality Programs for Libraries edited by Ellyssa Kroski
Strategic Planning for Public Libraries by Joy L. Fuller
Digital Byte: Supporting & Representing Indigenous People in the Library
Angela Bodzislaw from Spooner Memorial Library and Laura Merchant from Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College Extension discuss representing and supporting indigenous people in the library. This presentation includes topics of Land Acknowledgement, addressing historical trauma, cultural responsiveness, evaluating collections, and partnering with Indigenous organizations. This 20 minute presentation can be found at https://youtu.be/40KVO0UxVvY.
Wisconsin Library Users Checked Our More Than Seven Million Ebooks and Audiobooks in 2021
Wisconsin – January 21, 2022 – In 2021, Wisconsin’s Digital Library, a collaboration of all 16 of the state’s public library systems, broke records by lending over 7.2 million digital books and audiobooks. Since its inception in 2016, Wisconsin’s Digital Library has seen steady and occasionally explosive usage growth, demonstrating the ongoing value of public libraries lending ebooks and digital audiobooks. Even as physical library buildings reopened and collections were once again accessible, usage of the library continued to climb.
To meet last year’s growing demand from patrons, Wisconsin’s Digital Library added more copies of popular titles and collections of always-available ebooks and digital magazines for readers who want to avoid the line and start reading right away.
Of the more than 115,000 titles in the collection, the following were the most popular in 2021.
The top 5 ebook titles borrowed through Wisconsin’s Digital Library in 2021:
- Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder
- The Four Winds: A Novel by Kristin Hannah
- Bridgerton Collection by Julia Quinn
- The Giver of Stars: A Novel by Jojo Moyes
- Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel by Celeste Ng
The top 5 digital audiobook titles borrowed through Wisconsin’s Digital Library in 2021:
- Cold Mourning: Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery Series, Book 1 by Brenda Chapman
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
Readers in Wisconsin just need a valid library card to access digital books from Wisconsin’s Digital Library, powered by OverDrive, using any major device, mobile or desktop.
PLA 2022 Virtual Conference Registration is Now Open
Can't make it to Portland? Join us online for the PLA 2022 Virtual Conference instead! The Virtual Conference schedule has been expanded to offer live programming across all three days of the in-person conference (March 23–25), including:
- Live-streams from Portland of Opening Session with Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Big Ideas Series, and Closing Session with Kal Penn*
- Top-rated programs featuring the latest in library services and trends
- Author interviews, a Virtual Conference happy hour, and more!
More information at VIRTUAL CONFERENCE (placonference.org)
WAPL 2022 Call For Proposals
The Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries (WAPL) Annual Conference Programming Committee seeks program proposals for the next in-person public library conference to be held May 11-13, 2022 at The Ingleside Hotel in Pewaukee, WI.
Have you ever told yourself, “That just isn’t possible?” With a theme of INFINITE POSSIBILITIES, the goal of this year’s WAPL conference is that attendees will leave empowered to explore possibilities beyond their library and community.
We hope to offer a broad range of content from all areas of the public library world, so we welcome all library and library system staff, as well as students, trustees, and those involved in friends and foundation groups to submit proposals.
Feedback suggests attendees are looking for programs on management, leadership, patron confidentiality, "boomer" awareness, patron apathy, technology, data-driven decision making, brand management and marketing, small library, genre and reader's advisory, and sessions for trustees and support staff. Other suggested topics include change management, grant writing, handling large donations, inclusivity, and dreaming big.
Special Interest Groups are encouraged to submit proposals and meeting/social requests.
Proposals for presentations, panels, workshops, demonstrations, participatory sessions, business meetings, and unit social events are welcome. Sessions will run 60 minutes in length with a maximum of four presenters - 45 minutes for the presentation and 15 minutes of Q&A.
The deadline for submission is February 25, 2022. All submitters will be notified of their acceptance status by March 11, 2022.
Please use this Program Proposal Form to submit your proposals.
Please contact the WAPL Programming Committee with questions:
Jackee Johnson, Northern Waters Library Service
Gina Rae, Northern Waters Library Service
Sarah Wargin, Northern Waters Library Service
We're looking forward to an excellent conference!