The guest speaker for the WSDLC Annual Membership Meeting on March 18th will be 2021 NSK Neustadt Laureate and a New York Times bestselling author, Cynthia Leitich Smith. Ms. Smith is also the author-curator of Heartdrum, a Native-focused imprint at HarperCollins Children’s Books, and serves as the Katherine Paterson Inaugural Endowed Chair on the faculty ofContinue Reading Introducing The WSDLC Annual Membership Meeting Guest Speaker: Cynthia Leitich Smith

Good Afternoon Everyone, We have lots of information to share with WSDLC members: We received 74 titles in (mostly) ebook format along with some audiobooks from OverDrive as a way to say thank you to WSDLC members for your patience during the extremely busy period from March 2020 through December 2020. I’ve attached a listContinue Reading New Books, A Message Regarding Budgeting for 21-22 and WEMTA

Good Morning, We are pleased to welcome 3 new members to the WSDLC Board: Sarah Wendorf from Waunakee Community School District representing CESA 2 Emily Zorea from Ithaca School District representing CESA 3 Stephanie Judge from Sauk Prairie School District representing CESA 5 Each representative will serve a 3 yr term.  The full list ofContinue Reading New WSDLC Board Members and an FAQ “My student checked out too many titles and is locked out”

We hope you can join Connie Bowman of OverDrive on Tuesday, December 15th at 3:30-4:30 pm for an overview of how an Advantage account for your district can get more books to your students with fewer holds. In addition, if you have teachers asking you for multiple copies of a title for classroom use, youContinue Reading Advantage Account Webinar

The WSDLC Board is a key part of making the WSDLC the success it is.  Nominations are now open for 4 seats on the WSDLC board from individuals in schools or districts in the following CESA areas: CESA 2, CESA 3, CESA 5, CESA 12. The board term is two years. The nominations period will run through the end of the day onContinue Reading We Need You: WSDLC Board Nominations

Good Morning, Thank you to everyone who attended one of the Back To School webinars with OverDrive this week. We are sharing a link to the recording from Tuesday’s webinar here: https://overdrive.zoom.us/rec/share/KWSaiNtAPx92BQT7tQRG2QVy3FG5GwDCYbjZc5qjdbB9mxKRtcAEDmgMqutzgD-t.e3FCSTZEa4h_7HDr Passcode: YuS4BV2& This recording will live on the WSDLC website (in both the section on Getting Started with OverDrive and on OverDrive Advantage), which isContinue Reading Recording of the Back To School Webinar: Marketplace and Sora

Good Morning, OverDrive has donated a new collection of simultaneous/unlimited use titles – the Community Read: Own Voices & Diversity Books for Students collection – which includes over 50 titles from Lerner Publishing Group and Triangle Interactive. These free, unlimited use titles will be available through August 31, 2021 Please see the linked list below for individualContinue Reading Free Simultaneous Use Diverse Titles for Students Available Now