by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 17, 2017 | Wyoming Library News
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF), America’s largest wildlife conservation and education organization, has announced that Laramie County Library System has successfully created a Certified Wildlife Habitat through NWF’s Garden for Wildlife Program. In...
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...
by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 14, 2017 | WSL News
WSL Librarians Thomas Ivie and Brian Greene recently visited the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins. The prison regularly goes through accreditation through the American Correctional Association, and as part of the accreditation, they need access to a credentialed...
by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 13, 2017 | Grants and Awards
Ezra Jack Keats Mini-Grants DEADLINE: March 31, 2018 The Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, which fosters children’s love of reading and creative expression in our diverse culture, offers mini-grants to provide creative, innovative programs that support or extend the...
by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 13, 2017 | Calendar
Free, online, continuing education events for this week from the Wyoming State Library Training Calendar. You can subscribe and view the events in your calendar software, or you can find all the events at library.wyo.gov/services/training/calendar.
by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 9, 2017 | National Library News
From the American Library Association Access to current and reliable health information is imperative for the well-being of all Americans, and public libraries are frequently a go-to resource as people navigate complex issues of health care, insurance, aging and more....
