by Christi Weinzierl | May 1, 2017 | Training
Free, online, continuing education events for this week from the Wyoming State Library’s 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 | Apr 28, 2017 | Training
The May 2017 Wyoming State Library training calendar is now available. Every training opportunity on this list is free and offered online. Topics include advocacy, planning, careers, children and teens, collection development, communication, databases, managing...
by Christi Weinzierl | Apr 28, 2017 | National Library News
The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, has officially announced the 2017 Teens Top Ten Nominees. This year’s list of nominees features 26 titles that were published between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2016:...
by Christi Weinzierl | Apr 27, 2017 | Wyoming Library News
The Wyoming State Historical Society, in partnership with the University of Wyoming Libraries, invites everyone, young and old, to participate in selecting “Wyoming’s Top Ten Most Significant Artifacts” for 2017. Submissions received from libraries, museums,...
by Christi Weinzierl | Apr 27, 2017 | Training
Tomorrow, April 28, the Wyoming State Library’s GoWYLD Database of the Month webinar will look at the In Context databases. Join Chris Van Burgh, WSL Database Instruction Librarian, at 11:15 a.m. MDT, for this informative tour of the eight In Context databases...
by Christi Weinzierl | Apr 26, 2017 | Past Conferences
Registration is now open on the Wyoming Library Association website for the 2017 conference to be held Aug. 10-11 at Sheridan College. School librarians can also register for Information Power, which will be held on Aug. 9 in Sheridan in conjunction with the WLA...
by Christi Weinzierl | Apr 26, 2017 | WLA
Representatives of the Wyoming Library Association (WLA) are traveling to Washington, D.C., in May to discuss key library issues with the state’s Congressional delegation as part of the American Library Association’s 43rd annual National Library Legislative Day on May...
by Christi Weinzierl | Apr 25, 2017 | WSL News
The WYLD Governing Board honored Brian Greene today for his many years of service to the WYLD Network. “The WYLD Governing Board appreciates Brian’s 16 years of leadership,” said Jamie Markus, Wyoming State Librarian. “His vision saw WYLD...
by Christi Weinzierl | Apr 25, 2017 | Schools
The Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) today announced the release of Wyoming’s draft Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) State Plan for a 45-day public comment period. After much work on the part of the library community, school libraries are included...
by Christi Weinzierl | Apr 25, 2017 | WSL News
Seed libraries might be trending, but at the Wyoming State Library we’re going for the greenhouse look with sheets of plastic throughout the stacks. Above, left to right, WSL staffers Robyn Mofield, Abby Beaver, Angie Wolff, and Travis Pollok are hard at work...
