Index
- Adult Mental Health First Aid Training
- Library Legislative Day 2023
- WSLL @ Your Service
- STAR Net, California Science Center, and HHMI’s Blue Whale Program Survey
- National Library Service for the Blind and Disabled
- Gearbox Labs Grant Opportunity
- 2023 WAPL Call for Program Proposals
- Continuing Education Calendar
Adult Mental Health First Aid Training
Wednesday Feb 1 and Thursday Feb 2
1:00 – 4:00
Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training is intended for adults who wish to help people with emerging mental health disorders or experiencing a mental health crisis. The goal of MHFA training is to teach people to recognize the signs and symptoms of an emerging mental health disorder or mental health crisis. Participants also learn a 5-step action plan to engage and ultimately guide people to both professional and community resources that can help.
Attendees need to complete a self-paced online overview prior to attending the live online sessions. Information will be sent to registrants about a week prior to the live sessions. Part two of the training is two (2) three-hour live sessions and attendees are expected to attend both sessions. These will not be recorded.
Certified Mental Health First Aid instructors lead Part Two of the training. The 6-hour session takes the knowledge and skills learned in part one and applies them to crisis and non-crisis situations. Through a combination of lectures, activities, scenarios, and videos, participants learn to assess, approach, listen nonjudgmentally, give reassurance/information, encourage appropriate help, and encourage self-help to people showing signs/symptoms of a mental health disorder or mental health crisis. Participants who complete the class receive a 3-year certification as a Mental Health First Aider.
This program is presented in part by the Department of Public Instruction, with funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in the form of a Professional Learning Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant.
Library Legislative Day 2023
Online Registration closes January 13
Planning for the 2023 Library Legislative Day is underway. We are thrilled to again return to the State Capitol for this important & energizing event.
The day will start out with a morning session and continental breakfast at the Madison Public Library followed by appointments with state legislators in the State Capitol building.
State library aid items in the biennial state budget benefit all Wisconsin libraries. Our collections are interconnected. We share the same communities and constituents with our legislators. 2023 is a budget producing year and we need your help!
Significant funding gains for library services in the current state budget have enabled Wisconsin public librarians to support readers and leaders from toddlers to senior citizens. K-12 and academic librarians have assisted student needs from pre-K to university level, while our colleagues in specialty libraries supplied information to professionals in a wide variety of settings.
What we all have in common are success stories that need to be shared with our legislators! Please gather your stories of how the crucial state investment in library and information services makes a daily difference in the lives of the Wisconsin residents – and bring them to Madison on February 7 for Library Legislative Day!
The January 2023 issue of WSLL @ Your Service is now available online. In this issue, The Odd Law Examiner, Before you pull out your crystal ball, think ahead! Learn about the prohibition against fortune telling in the Wisconsin Statutes, and its history. Read more After Hours Subscriptions for 2023, It's time to renew your After Hours Service for 2023! The Wisconsin State Law Library offers After Hours access to the David T. Prosser Jr. State Law Library to any attorney licensed to practice in this state. New this year – renew your subscription and pay online! Read more 2022 in Review, Legal books update information in a variety of ways. At our libraries, many books are updated regularly with supplements, pocket parts, and updated pages. We also get several new editions and brand new books every year on a wide variety of topics. To start off 2023, we are showcasing some of the books we added to our collection over the last 12 months. Read more New Books, Our two featured new books this month are Courtroom criminal evidence (new edition, available online in Lexis Digital as well), and Banking law in the United States (new edition). Read more Tech Tip, Most readers of this newsletter are familiar with the online docket system for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. In addition to the default case search, wicourts.gov also provides a Filed Documents search option to find documents by keyword. Read more Library News, Our classes for early 2023 are now available for registration. Learn about our latest webinars and in-person classes, and check out our latest article in the State Bar of Wisconsin’s InsideTrack, in this issue. Read more January Snapshot, Streets and highways are not the only modes of transportation in need of plowing after snowstorms. Railroads must keep the tracks clear to ensure safe passage. The Canadian Pacific recently deployed this plow to clear snowdrifts off the track from Madison to Portage, a stretch known as the M&P Subdivision. Read more
STAR Net, California Science Center, and HHMI’s Blue Whale Program Survey
STAR Net is partnering with the California Science Center, HHMI, and others to bring the science of Blue Whales to libraries! We’re working on designing a new program for a library setting about blue whales and using the exploration of them as a connection to discovering local nature. We would like to gather input as to where the greatest needs are for library programming. Any feedback is welcome!
National Library Service for the Blind and Disabled
Looking for resources to help your patrons with disabilities keep reading? Perhaps one of your voracious readers struggles to hold a physical book. Or a patron who usually beelines to the large-print section now finds that font size difficult. You might have noticed a student with dyslexia struggle to make the switch from story time to independent reading. In these and other scenarios, the National Library Service for the Blind and Disabled, or NLA for short, is your partner in sharing the transformational power of reading with those you serve.
NLS is a free library service through the Library of Congress that distributes accessible books, magazines, and music materials to individuals who are unable to read regular print materials because of a visual, physical, or reading disability. Patrons can access thousands of new and in-demand titles in audio and braille formats from BARD, NLS's mobile app, or by postage-free mailed cartridges played on a talking book machine. NLS has a network of libraries in every state to provide reader advisors and technical support at the local level.
What's more, as a public librarian, you can certify eligible patrons for service to get folks reading even faster. For more than 90 years, NLS has worked to provide patrons with access to reading materials regardless of age, economic circumstances, or technical expertise. We are proud to partner with our nation's librarians to share the gift of reading so that all may read!
Gearbox Labs Grant Opportunity
Our 501c3 organization based in Glendale, WI received a grant from the Vela Education Fund to bring engineering, electronics, and coding education workshops to the state with an emphasis on reaching homeschool students, libraries with an interest in expanding makerspace activities, and teachers. Our emphasis in to work with libraries outside of Milwaukee.
As background, in 2020, we piloted a similar 3 library program with the Monarch System in Sheboygan County at Random Lake, Plymouth, and Sheboygan libraries that reached 50 students – mostly girls and mostly homeschoolers that was well received. Our application to scale this effort state-wide was accepted by Vela Education Fund and we hope WPLC would help us reach these communities. Also, I am a MLIS graduate of UW-Milwaukee.
Our grant’s goals is to go to 7 communities around the state and teach homeschool students, train library staff and local teachers from February to July 2023.
There is no cost to the library. For hosting our workshops, we would provide 5 sets of our engineering, electronics, and coding books and kits to the library for check out and future use in its outreach efforts in the community. Participants in the workshops will receive a free book and kit from us. We would also like to offer the same workshop for educators in the area on an adjacent day – preferably at the library as well. Educators would also receive a free book and kit for attending the workshop.
We are looking for 7 host libraries around the state that would align with this opportunity and give us space to present two, one-day workshops. One day would be offered to homeschool students and library staff and the second would be for local educators and library staff. The libraries must be geographically dispersed around the state and have a room for us to present to up to 20 participants each day.
If interested, contact: Peter Haydock, [email protected] www.gearboxlabs.org
2023 WAPL Call for Program Proposal
Plans are underway for the 2023 WAPL conference, taking place April 26 - 28, 2023 at the Best Western Premier Waterfront Hotel and Convention Center in Oshkosh, WI. We are delighted to offer you the opportunity to share and showcase your knowledge with our attendees during a breakout session. Deadline for submitting a session proposal is midnight on January 20, 2023!
This year's conference theme is "Cardigan Revolution," which means:
- Boldly claiming (and being proud of) our roles as change agents, movers and shakers, community healers, resiliency builders
- Moving forward through futuristic thinking, strength, and strategy
- Feeling pride and fulfillment in our profession
- Re-energizing our colleagues, our communities, our boards, ourselves
We invite you (and your great ideas!) to be a part of making this event our best conference ever by submitting a session proposal that helps support this year's theme.
The conference will offer six concurrent breakout sessions in one-hour time slots (36 breakouts overall) during the following dates/times:
- Thursday April 27: 10:30 - 11:30 AM, 1:15 - 2:15 PM, 2:30 - 3:30 PM
- Friday April 28: 8:30 - 9:30 AM, 9:45 - 10:45 AM, 11 AM - Noon
If you are interested, we urge you to apply to be a part of shaping our educational offerings in 2023. Proposals will be accepted through midnight on January 20, 2023.
The programming committee will review all proposals and notify you of your selection status by January 27, 2023. Presenter agreements will be distributed by the WLA office. Our target date to have all agreements executed is February 3, 2023.
We look forward to hearing from you and to partnering on a successful 2023 WAPL Conference. Please send questions via email to [email protected].