Index
- Around the System
- New Flyways Mini-Grant for Libraries
- Lead The Way 2025 Call For Proposals
- Digital Safety and Privacy for Librarians
- Ready for Reentry Webinar
- Continuing Education Calendar
Around the System
Changes Coming to Online Update
Starting July 2024, Online Update will be changing its publishing cycle from every other week to once a month. Editions of Online Update will be available mid-month. We encourage you to share exciting events happening at your library for the Around the System section. Send in a picture and a brief description of the event. The due date for inclusion will be the 10th of the month.
SCLS Foundation “Superhero” Nominations Due July 17.
Library staff/volunteer nominations for the SCLS Foundation Superhero Awards are due to Amanda Wakeman ([email protected]) by July 17. This is a great way to honor your staff and volunteers that go above and beyond. The 2024 SCLS Foundation Cornerstone will be held on October 3, 2024 at the Waunakee Public Library. More information about the SCLS Foundation Cornerstone event will be available soon.
Seven Years of Summer Lunches
Rio Community Library’s hosting of Summer Lunch on the Lawn is in its 7th year. This year’s community partners include
- The Rio P.T.O.
- Hometown Pharmacy
- Gaskets
- Rio Area Library Friends (RALF)
- Living Gospel Church
- Bonnet Prairie Church/Redeemer Lutheran Church
- Bedrock Church
Lunches are served 3 days a week. Rio Community Library has noticed an increase in participants this year and are expecting to provide 1000 lunches this summer.
New Flyways Mini-Grant for Libraries
SciStarter and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios invite libraries from around the US to host citizen science-related events around the Flyways documentary this Fall. Flyways explores a global conservation effort led by bird experts and citizen scientists working to understand and protect these migratory shorebirds.
Apply by July 1, 2024 to receive $800 to host an event or program featuring the film Flyways and related SciStarter citizen science resources this Fall.
Lead The Way 2025 Call For Proposals
Call for proposals is now open! Share strategies for building community partnerships, strategic planning, programs to engage the community, funding opportunities, and more! Sessions for the conference will be one hour. Priority will be given to sessions that include interactive elements and audience participation. Every selected session will receive one complimentary conference registration.
The deadline to submit session proposals and roundtable applications is September 2, 2024.
Submit Your Idea Today 2025 Lead The Way: Libraries At The Heart Of Community Engagement – The Information School – UW–Madison (wisc.edu)
Digital Safety and Privacy for Librarians
July 10 @ 1:00 p.m.
Join Melody Karle for this webinar on digital safety and privacy from a librarian's perspective.
How do we help patrons in this area and what guidance should and can we offer them in protecting themselves online? What are the best tools and resources? What privacy and digital safety issues might we be overlooking in our own library?
Melody will also discuss how AI and social media complicate these already challenging issues.
If you're interested but not able to attend the live webinar, go ahead and register. We'll send a recording to all registrants after the fact.
August 13 @ 1:00 p.m.
Individuals reentering the community from jail or prison may come to your library facing many unique challenges that impact their ability to make a smooth and effective transition into society. Learn about online resources and programs you can point to that can help them navigate the reentry journey in areas that impact them the most: housing, employment, education, healthcare and legal barriers. Helping them access these tools is an initial step in helping these individuals rebuild their lives.
During this webinar, participants will become familiar with these resources:
- Reentry Ready Resources
Presenters: Ronda Davis, Todd Wenzel, and Jonathon Ferguson (UW-Extension)
UW-Extension developed a site that provides a Reentry Action Plan and links to resources for assistance in housing, Identification, work, legal questions, tax and voting, income and benefits, expenses, healthcare and insurance, and more. - Legal Tune-up Tool
Presenter: Erica Nelson (Lift Wisconsin)
Free legal assistance can be just a click away to help people who face civil legal barriers to economic prosperity for them and their families. Common areas include consumer debt help, child support, suspended driver’s license, and more. - Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
Presenter: Cawley Hubner (Wisconsin Department of Corrections)
WRAP focuses on goal planning and wellness to address the needs of participants by providing support for mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness while incarcerated and in reentry. It is also useful to help people working in corrections to cope with the stresses and challenges as they support people on their reentry journey.
This webinar is provided with support from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s Library Workforce Connection, Wisconsin Public Library Systems, and the Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin.