Events Calendar

  • Thu 3/22/2012: Workshop: CCBC Best Books 2012
  • Wed 3/28/2012: WRLS Board Meeting 6:30pm
  • Thu 4/12/2012: NAC Meeting 10:00am
  • Thu 4/26/2012: Workshop:
  • Wed 5/23/2012: WRLS Board Meeting 6:30pm

My ALA Conference Experience

By Marcia Sarnowski

I had the opportunity to attend the ALA 2011 Annual Conference in June, held this year in New Orleans.  Over 20,000 people attended this amazing cavalcade representing the many facets of librarianship.  There were miles of exhibits and hundreds of programs.  Here is a sampling of the few that I attended, prepared

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The Wakanheza Project™ – Creating Welcoming Environments

By Marcia Sarnowski

Representatives from many Wisconsin public library systems gathered on May 4 at the Sun Prairie Public Library to learn about the The Wakanheza Project™, a prevention approach to addressing family violence that was developed in 2002 by the Saint Paul – Ramsey County Public Health and The Initiative for Peaceful Families

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Mad Men and a Librarian

by Rochelle Hartman, Information Services Manager, La Crosse Public Library

Even though Mad Men has been getting shut out at the various award shows this season, it’s still a winner at my house. For the uninitiated, Mad Men is a TV series on AMC, set in the 1960s at a fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency.

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