Events Calendar

  • Wed 5/23/2012: WRLS Board Meeting 6:30pm
  • Thu 5/24/2012: Workshop
  • Thu 6/14/2012: NAC Meeting 10:00am
  • Wed 7/25/2012: WRLS Board Meeting
  • Thu 8/9/2012: NAC Meeting 10:00am

What’s on Badgerlink? (Part 5)

by Megan M. Isely, La Crosse Public Library Archives

HeritageQuest Online

While Ancestry is the “big kahuna” of online genealogy resources in terms of name recognition and resources, Ancestry does not have everything and there are other fish in the genealogical sea. HeritageQuest Online, provided by library vendor ProQuest, provides several databases that the library

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Children’s Literature That Represents Muslims Presented at UW-La Crosse

By Marcia Sarnowski

Dr. Seemi Aziz, an assistant professor of reading and literacy education in the Oklahoma State University College of Education, addressed a group of education students, faculty and staff, librarians, and community members at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s Murphy Library, on Monday, April 16.

Dr. Aziz, a native of Pakistan who has

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Resource Sharing and Popular Material

By Charles Clemence

If you’ve been around WRLS for a while you know that I’ve long been interested in the relationship between borrowing material and buying it. All things being equal, it’s always better to buy an item then to borrow it. In these days of shared automation and easy ILL, this is perhaps less

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