by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 16, 2017 | WSL News
In September, the Uinta County Library held a hugely successful Paw Patrol program, teaming up with the local police and fire departments. Attendees numbered 393 at the main library in Evanston and more than 100 people at each of the two branches. As it turned out,...
by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 16, 2017 | Schools
By Doug Johnson Blue Skunk Blog At a recent meeting, a school library professor expressed her concern to me about the profession’s enthusiasm for putting makerspaces into school libraries. While she personally saw the value of the kinds of learning opportunities...
by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 15, 2017 | WLA
Pencil it in now, and make plans to attend: the 2018 Wyoming Library Association Legislative Reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. on February 22, 2018 at the Wyoming State Library, 2800 Central Ave. in Cheyenne. Library directors, employees, trustees, and volunteers...
by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 15, 2017 | Articles and Information
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has made a Teen Literacies Toolkit available as an online PDF. In this toolkit, they use the “fake news” phenomenon as an approach to addressing multiple literacies. The kit re-examines and discusses...
by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 14, 2017 | Wyoming Library News
Submitted by Valerie Maginnis Teton County Library Director Literacy begins at birth in Teton County, Wyoming. Thanks to generous funding from the Teton County Library Foundation and the Friends of the Library, Teton County Library is the first Family Place Library...
