The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC) was formed in 2001.
News, updates, and stories from across the consortium.
The WPLC Board celebrated the consortium’s one-year anniversary of its strategic plan at their February meeting. Notable activities and highlights from Year 1 of the strategic plan include: The adoption of a Mission, Vision, and a set of Value statements to help guide how the WPLC does its work. A new WPLC website was created…
The WPLC’s first Wisconsin Reads, a brand new statewide digital book club, begins today, January 15th and continues through March 14th! The chosen title is “Still True” by Maggie Ginsberg , winner of the 2023 WLA Literary Award for Fiction (among other awards!) and the title is available to anyone who wants it as an…
As 2025 comes to a close, the WPLC Board is pleased to share a newly adopted set of Value statements that will help guide the consortium’s work going forward. Check out the Values below and find them any time on the WPLC website . Integrity and Ethics: We are guided by the ethics and standards…
Have you taken a look at Wisconsin’s Digital Library Insight Dashboard lately? The dashboard gives a snapshot of current checkouts and holds for the current day, month, and year! A link to the dashboard was available on the WDL site , but due to OverDrive linking restrictions, the dashboard is no longer available there. However,…
In this installment of the “Did You Know?” series from WPLC, we want to spotlight some information that library staff might be able to use with patrons who have questions related to long wait times, especially in Wisconsin’s Digital Library/Libby. “Why is the wait time so long for the book I want to read?” “Why…
With over 350,000 copies of digital audio, ebooks and magazines and 9 million checkouts in 2024, it’s no exaggeration that Wisconsin’s Digital Library gets its read on! Wisconsin’s Digital Library is unique relative to other national shared digital collections in that the selection process is decentralized and shared by Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC) member librarians. …
The next major release of Libby will introduce a new feature called Content Controls. Content Controls allow users to configure what library content appears in Libby, for themselves or for their family, based on the intended audience for each book, audiobook, and magazine in the library collection. This feature is optional. When content controls are in effect,…
Today, we’re turning the spotlight on Digital Library Shelf Talkers. You may have seen these short reviews/recommendations appear on various digital library title records. Shelf talkers are a great way to do some proactive readers’ advisory and help draw attention to titles that might fly under the radar or be checked out less often. Note:…
In case you missed it, this year OverDrive launched “ Check Out Your Library ,” a multi-year campaign designed to celebrate and promote all that libraries have to offer – even beyond digital materials – and to help new and current patrons discover a new program, service, or resource at their local library. If you…
