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- 2022 SCLS Foundation Cornerstone Event
- Member/Staff News
- Trustee Training Week 2022
- What’s Next for Webb?
- Community Fundraising Success Stories
- Continuing Education Calendar
2022 SCLS Foundation Cornerstone Event
We would like to cordially invite you to this year’s Cornerstone Event. This year the SCLS Foundation’s premier fundraising celebration will be held at the Lone Girl Brewing Company in Waunakee on September 15, 2022 from 5:30 pm– 7:30 pm. We would like to thank First Business Bank and Summit Credit Union for their sponsorship of this event.
Through The Campaign to Enhance Public Libraries, the SCLS Foundation raises funds to support its 54 member libraries located across seven counties. With past support, the SCLS Foundation has been able to support the digitization of historical material for public use, acquire video equipment to record virtual programs that can be viewed over and over, and purchase downloadable books, magazines, and videos for everyone to relish.
Click here for more information about the event and how to donate. We hope to see you on September 15.
Exploring Natural Resources
The Rosemary Garfoot Public Library, Black Earth Public Library, and Mazomanie Free Library have partnered on an activity with The Gateway to The Driftless Organization to get area kids out and exploring the many natural resources in the Black Earth Creek watershed. Read more about in the The Star New.
Pictured: Catherine Baer, Rosemary Garfoot Children’s Librarian, Peter Antonie, Gateway to The Driftless Board Member, Bailey Anderson, Black Earth Library Director and Brian Cole, Mazomanie Free Library Director
The August issue of WSLL @ Your Service is now online.
In this issue: New and Updated Jury Instructions - In July we added new and updated instructions for the Criminal and Children's sets. Learn about the most recent supplement to the Criminal Jury Instructions, and new updates for the Children’s set in this issue. read more New Books - This month’s featured titles include new editions of Landmark Indian Law Cases and Newberg and Rubenstein on Class Actions. read more Tech Tip - As much as we all love our digital devices, there are situations when paper and pencil simply feel more appropriate or even easier than taking notes on a laptop. Smart notebooks are a good solution for people who prefer note-taking by hand but crave the organization and paper reduction offered by a digital device. read more Library News - Get updates about the library, and upcoming classes in this month’s column. read more August Snapshot - Badgers, Wisconsin's state animal, can be found throughout the Wisconsin State Capitol grounds. Far from underground, this warmly lit badger overlooks one of the entryways to the Capitol's four main chambers. read more
There is still time to register for Trustee Training Week 2022, August 22-26. Wisconsin Trustee Training Week was developed in 2014 with the goal of providing high-quality webinars to public library boards, friends and trustees in Wisconsin.
TTW 2022: Materials Challenges & Your Library From the Trustee Table
Monday, August 22, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Presenter: Becky Spratford
Regardless of whether or not your library has had a request for reconsideration of library materials, the increase in challenges is dramatic, and quite frankly, upsetting. Becky Spratford, an expert in serving leisure readers through the public library with over 20 years of experience as a locally elected library trustee, Reaching Across Illinois Library System board member, and Illinois Library Association Executive Board member, will walk you through everything you need to do to prepare for a request to ban titles at your library. From the steps you need to take right now, to how to properly handle a challenge from your seat at the trustee table, Becky will help you to put the emotions aside and protect intellectual freedom.
Register here!
TTW 2022: Here to Stay: Recruiting & Retaining Dedicated Library Workers
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Presenter: Lisa Shaw
The highly competitive job market makes it much harder for libraries to attract and keep library staff - including directors. While libraries might struggle to compete with other employers on wage scales, they can create a culture of inclusivity, inspiration, and belonging that appeals to creative and hard-working employees. This session will include practical tools for library boards like improving board-director relationships, reviewing job descriptions, and investigating options for improved salaries and benefits, and more to make your library a great place to work and help reduce staff turnover and shortages.
Register here!
TTW 2022: Effective & Efficient Meetings: Parliamentary Procedure
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Presenter: Nancy Sylvester
Planning great meetings and running them effectively and efficiently is crucial to a strong organization. This webinar will help make parliamentary procedure understandable and useful to you as well as focus on the tools to help you with the meetings you conduct and attend. After this webinar, the attendees will not only have a better understanding of parliamentary procedure but will have the knowledge and skills to help run an effective meeting.
Register here!
TTW 2022: Making Sense & Cents of a Library Building Project: the Library Trustee Role
Thursday, August 25, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Presenter: John Thompson
Public libraries around Wisconsin are building, expanding, and/or renovating their spaces. Your Library Director or Building Consultant is recommending to the board the need for additional library space. What is the role of the library board? How can the library board support the project?
John Thompson will share some tips and insights on the library board role, an overview of the process, some of the costs involved, and how potential choices might impact the project and library services.
Register here!
TTW 2022: From Stories to Action: How to Talk about Your Budget to Activate Support & Secure Funding
Friday, August 26, 2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Presenter: John Chrastka
The core of any library's strategic plan, management plan, or development plan is the organization's own mission, vision, and values system. But very often, the plans describe the “features” of the library, like hours, collections, staffing levels, and facilities rather than the expected or hoped for outcomes. And library leaders are ready to share powerful stories about how the library impacts users, but not often about their own work. Learn how to talk about your funding in a new way by talking about you, your staff and board, and why you do the work you do.
Register here!
What’s Next for Webb? Unraveling the Birth of Stars and Planetary Systems Webinar
August 30, 2022 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Mountain Time
The world got its first look at the astonishing images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in July. This first wave of full-color scientific images and spectra is just the beginning of Webb’s scientific operations. Join STAR Net at a free webinar as we invite Dr. Elena Sabbi from the Space Telescope Science Institute to share about her work using Webb to study the formation of stars and planets. Discover how Webb’s new observations will revolutionize our understanding of the processes that have shaped the solar system! Click here to register.
Community Fundraising Success Stories
Fourth of a Six-part Series
Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Time: 2:00 – 3:00pm
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PXbTwsO7Rj6B5BerOu-DoQ
Join us as three directors from Wisconsin public libraries share their local fundraising success stories. After attending this session, you'll have the inspiration and ideas you need to find a local base of supporters who are ready to get involved and become change agents for your library.
Presenters:
- Christy Ross, Library Director, Brandon Public Library
- Svetha Hetzler, Library Director, Sun Prairie Public Library
- Heidi Cox, Library Director, E.D. Locke Public Library, McFarland
The webinar will have closed-captioning, and will be recorded and archived on the websites of NEWI and SCLS. It supplies one continuing education contact hour for library directors needing certification.
This session is part four of a six-part webinar series of fundraising webinars provided by NEWI (Manitowoc-Calumet Library System, Nicolet Federated Library System, Outagamie Waupaca Library System, and Winnefox Library System) and South Central Library System.