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Year in Review and What's Ahead: 2024 Library Services Team
As 2024 ends, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s Library Services Team is grateful for a year of opportunities to support libraries statewide through impactful initiatives, workshops, and resources.
Call for Applicants: BadgerLink Advisory Group
Applications are now being accepted for the BadgerLink Advisory Group. The DPI's Library Services Team is seeking ten new members to serve a two-year term beginning in the spring of 2025. The deadline for submission is December 13, 2024, and the review and selection of applications will be finalized by January 17, 2025.
CCBC Starred Review Days
Guest post by the Cooperative Children's Book Center
This fall, the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) will be holding CCBC Starred Review Days November 18-22. During the week, the CCBC sets up all of the Copyright 2024 books they have received to-date, which received a starred review in one more professional journals, in the CCBC conference room for easy hands-on book examination.
Starred Review Days Schedule:
Celebrating National Library Card Sign-up Month
The Library Card Services Team is celebrating National Library Card Sign-up Month throughout September. 
Assistant State Superintendent for the Division for Libraries and Technology Dr. Darrell Williams will be visiting several public and school libraries across the state encouraging citizens to sign-up for a new card or renew their expired library cards.
2024 Play Make Learn Keynote Speakers and Conference Schedule Available
Play Make Learn is honored to be hosting keynote speakers Dr. Aaron Trammell (July 18th) and Dr. Rilla Khaled (July 19th). They will be offering presentations covering a number of different STEAM, gaming, and playful-learning based topics. More info below; you won't want to miss it!
Love of Literacy and Learning: Celebrating School Library Month
Literature, poetry, coding, robotics, and solar eclipses are just some of the learning topics covered across school libraries in Wisconsin. During School Library Month, DPI’s Assistant State Superintendent for the Division for Libraries and Technology Dr. Darrell Williams traveled approximately 1500 miles in April to visit school and public libraries across the state to celebrate and honor our library media specialists who are helping our young people with a love of literacy and learning.
Connecting Wisconsin Libraries - TeachingBooks
Connecting Wisconsin Libraries is a networking group of school and public libraries that meets quarterly to facilitate collaboration with Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) stakeholders and Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association (WEMTA) stakeholders, and to foster collaboration between school and public libraries on a statewide level.
Happy National Library Week
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's Library Services Team is celebrating our state's library staff, volunteers, and supporters during National Library Week, April 7-13.