by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 21, 2017 | WSL News
The Wyoming State Library will be closed Thursday, November 23, for the Thanksgiving holiday. We will be open our normal hours on Friday, November 24. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are four populated places named after the holiday’s traditional main...
by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 20, 2017 | WSL News
Find a wrap-up of the latest in Wyoming library news in the November 2017 Outrider newsletter from the Wyoming State Library. Subscribe today, and we’ll send the Outrider straight to your email inbox each month. Have news you’d like included? Contact Susan Mark, WSL...
by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 20, 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. Tuesday, Nov 21...
by Christi Weinzierl | Nov 17, 2017 | Articles and Information
Assistive technology (AT) is any item, piece of equipment, software program, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities. Many apps fall under this category. Wyoming Assistive Technology...
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...
