Illinois Professional Development for Serving People with Disabilities

In recognition of the anniversary of ADA25, the RAILS (Illinois) library system has partnered with ADA25Chicago to offer professional development and learning opportunities to librarians and library staff about serving people with disabilities. 

Click here for the post on the SNAILS blog. 

Children's Performer Directory to End

Announced in 2014, the Wisconsin Children's Performer Directory is closed. The DPI Public Library Development team no longer has budget or staff resources to support the Directory, which has also come to pose some liability issues for the agency.

The last day to access the Directory will be Monday, August 31, 2015. To capture a personal copy of the Directory before it is deleted, users might consider printing some or all of the webpages, or copying and pasting the webpage content into a document.

To see how to save or capture the pages, see the blog post on WI Libraries for Everyone. 

In the future, NFLS will be maintaining a regional listing of performers only. 

Supercharged Storytimes

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Division for Libraries and Technology is one of five state library agencies recently selected by OCLC to participate in a second pilot program called Supercharged Storytimes in the fall of 2015. 

Check out the blog post on WI Libraries for Everyone to learn more.