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Online Training ‘At Your Leisure’
In addition to the live webinars in our training calendar, each month we try to pick some videos out there that you can watch “At Your Leisure.” We hope you enjoy these ones...
7 Tips for Making Your Principal Your Ally
By Doug Johnson Via the Blue Skunk Blog Librarians, you cannot afford to have an adversarial relationship with your principal. You cannot even afford a principal who is an...
Grants and Awards
ALA Trustee Citation DEADLINE: January 7, 2019 The ALA Trustee Citation, established in 1941 to recognize public library Trustees for distinguished service to library...
Making Library Budget Presentations
Reposted from the Vermont Department of Libraries December 2018 newsletter The American Library Association (ALA) offers a great article with tips on how to prepare for,...
People News
[su_row][su_column size="1/2" center="no" class=""] Tamsen Hert, Head of the Emmet D. Chisum Special Collections at the University of Wyoming, received a Topham and Susan...
Free Continuing Education Events for the Week of December 10
Free, online, continuing education events for the week of December 10 from the Wyoming State Library Training Calendar. Descriptions are below. You can subscribe and view...
Host a Fallen Warrior Kiosk at Your Library
From Wyoming Military Department Museums Wyoming has a proud legacy of service in our Armed Forces, sometimes that service comes at a great cost. Since the start of the...
Pearl Harbor Day Reading from the WSL
Moments before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, the United States was ‘suddenly and deliberately attacked.’ Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes and bombers launched a surprise...
Big Grant Opportunities for Small Libraries
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has launched a new special initiative, Accelerating Promising Practices for Small Libraries (APP), and is accepting grant...
One Month Left in Letters About Literature Contest
The deadline for the Letters About Literature student reading/writing contest is just a little over one month away on January 11. The Wyoming State Library invites students...
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