Category: Continuing Education

‘Lead from where you are’: 2024 Power Up conference inspires attendees

On March 21 and 22, a group of over 150 youth services library professionals from around the country convened in Madison for the highly anticipated 2024 Power Up: A Leadership Conference for Youth Services Managers and Staff. About a third of the attendees came from within the state of Wisconsin, while the rest made the …

Student Q&A: Gabriella Schaffer, Library & Information Studies

Graduate students often attend conferences, but Gabriella Schaffer MAx’24 helped plan one.  The iSchool’s Continuing Education team organizes Power Up: A Conference for Youth Services Managers & Staff on a recurring basis, and graduate students can directly contribute, as Schaffer did, by serving as student representatives on the conference’s programming committee. At Power Up, youth …