The annual Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference is full of great info, and you don't need to drive anywhere to attend it — participate from your desk, home, or on the go.

Fourteen one-hour sessions are scheduled over two days: Wednesday, January 23 and Thursday January 24, 2019. There are concurrent sessions in 4 tracks, plus opening and closing sessions:

• small and mighty — 3 sessions geared toward staff who work in small and rural libraries
• library leadership — 3 webinars on hiring, library-wide teams, and customer service
• youth services — 3 sessions geared toward those who work with children, tweens, and teens
• marketing — 3 webinars on signage, leveraging library resources, and the cycle of true marketing
• opening session— Pull Your Shelf Together: Community Organizing in Libraries
• closing session — Self Care: Preventing Burn Out

Attend as many sessions as you'd like; they'll all be recorded so you can watch any that you miss. Here's the schedule:

Wednesday, January 23
Pull Your Shelf Together: Community Organizing in Libraries (Opening Session)	9 - 10am	register
A Step-by-Step Guide to Library Hiring (Library Leadership)	10:30 - 11:30am	register
60 Teen Programs in 60 Minutes (Youth Services)	10:30 - 11:30am	register
Great Expectations: Customer Service and the Future of Libraries (Library Leadership)	1 - 2pm	register
What Makes a Great Children’s Librarian? (Youth Services)	1 - 2pm	register
Silos No More: Harness Library Wide Teams for Success	2:30 - 3:30pm	register
Let’s Talk About Race (Youth Services)	2:30 - 3:30pm	register
Thursday, January 24
What They Didn’t Teach in Library School: The Cycle of True Marketing (Marketing)	9 - 10am	register
WHY-brarian (Small and Mighty)	9 - 10am	register
How to Better Leverage Library Resources for Marketing Success (Marketing)	10:30 - 11:30am	register
Big Programs, Little Budget (Small and Mighty)	10:30 - 11:30am	register
Step Up Your Library Signage (Marketing)	12 - 1pm	register
Size Doesn't Matter: Transforming Big Ideas Into Small Library Environments (Small & Mighty)	12 - 1pm	register
Self Care: Preventing Burn Out	2 - 3pm	register

Contact hours for continuing education toward public librarian re-certification: 1 per webinar.  All sessions will be recorded, and will be available for viewing here soon after each session.

To participate: all you need for the visual is either...
• an internet-connected computer; you can run the system check ahead of time, or
• an iOS®, Android®, or Windows® mobile device; just download the free GoToWebinar app ahead of time
For the audio, either...
• headphones, earbuds, or speakers connected to your computer, or
• use a telephone or speakerphone to call in (long distance rates apply)

New to webinars?
• Read the How to Join guide or watch the 4-minute Attendee Quick Start video so you'll know what to expect.
• As soon as you register for a webinar, a confirmation email will be sent to you that contains a link to join the webinar at the appointed date and time.
• You'll receive an email reminder prior to each webinar, which will have a link which reads, "Click here to join" — this is the link you'll click to connect to a session.
• Before joining a webinar session, please turn off any other software or processes on your computer that would compete with your Internet bandwidth. (Programs like automatic updates, instant messaging, email, etc., if running during the webinar, may degrade the quality of the webinar's audio and video.)

The Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference is a state-wide virtual conference developed by the Nicolet Federated Library System and supported by 15 other library systems and the DPI in Wisconsin. Because of this collaboration, all sessions are available to you at no cost.