Youth Services Highlights at WLA Conference

There are a myriad of engaging programs coming up at the 2019 Wisconsin Library Association Conference--which will be held from October 8-11 at the Kalahari Conference Center in the Wisconsin Dells.  So many interesting and important topics from a diversity of presenters (including several from right here in IFLS-land)!   Here are just a few of the youth services highlights (there are MANY more):

• Author Miranda Paul will be the Youth Services Section luncheon speaker on Wednesday.  Her most recent book, Nine Months, received 4 starred reviews and the 2019 Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Award for Nonfiction.
• Author Chad Sell won the Burr/Worzolla Wisconsin Children's Book Award for his graphic novel Cardboard Kingdom, and he'll be at the conference delivering a presentation and also accepting his award.
• Many of you may have heard the This American Life segment The Room of Requirement.  If you haven't--go listen to it!  Wisconsin librarian Lydia Sigwarth's story is featured in this story, and she'll be giving a presentation.  And Lydia's got a debut picture book coming out in 2021.
• The Youth Services  Section is having a social--open to everyone--on Wednesday evening.  This is a great opportunity to hang out, make some recycled book art, and meet some new friends.  Youth services librarians are the friendliest, most welcoming bunch around--you know that!  
• Other sessions about working with families, playful STEAM programs, nutrition, effectively serving trans community members, programming for teens and tweens, and unpacking privilege, to name a few, will be fascinating for a wide range of youth services folks!

If you have always wanted to attend WLA  but have never managed to do so, I highly recommend it.  If finances are a barrier, check out the scholarship opportunity coming from IFLS by Monday at the latest!