Save Wed & Thu Jan. 22 and 23, 2020 for the annual Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference.
Topics include Making the Most of the Space You Have; Help Your Patrons Cut the Cable Cord; Programming With Purpose; Social Media Trends 2020; Managing a Multigenerational Library Staff; and Displays On a Dime.
There are 14 concurrent sessions in 4 tracks — small & mighty, tech trends, adult services, and library management — plus opening and closing sessions.
Upcoming Events
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Sep 9, 12:00am
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Aug 11, 9:30am
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Aug 14, 10:00am
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Aug 25, 9:30am
What's New for Member Libraries
What's New in WALS

Salutations!
Today’s Topic: How to get rid of all those Lost Item Alerts, or What to do when you get the “Item not found in Catalog” popup.
When a patron doesn’t return an item, after 30 days it becomes LOST and the patron is Billed for the item. For 18-22 months, the item stays in LOST Limbo and remains in the database and on the patron’s record as LOST bill. 3-4 times/yr I run a report that moves these items and bills from LOST Limbo to UI Purgatory. This process removes the item from the database (so they don’t show in the catalog or WF), and removes the LOST bill, and replaces it with a UI-ITEM bill. It also writes the item’s info to the patron record in the Lost Items Note field. Why do you care? ...Read more...
What's New in General
Our READ poster project is moving along well. We have posters completed for Assembly Representatives Ballweg, Hintz, and Thiesfeldt and Senators Gudex and Olsen. Several more sessions are scheduled for the next couple of weeks and we're waiting to hear back from several offices. You can expect pictures to start to arrive in the next couple of weeks.
