WLA Honors YSS Members

Two members of YSS will be honored at the WLA Fall Conference in Middleton at the end of the month.

Alison Loewen, current YSS past chair, will be honored with the 2025 Demco Librarian of the Year Award! Alison has served on the YSS board for the past four years. She is being honored as an innovative collaborator and leader in early literacy within her community and beyond. You can read more about her accomplishments here.

Marge Loch-Wouters, longtime YSS member and recent YSS blog administrator, will be inducted into the Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame. She is being honored for her almost fifty years of work on behalf of youth librarians and youth in the state and nationally. You can read more about her accomplishments here. 

Both honors will be given at the WLA Awards and Honors banquet on Thursday evening October 30 at 6:30 pm at the Marriot West conference center. 

For those not attending the banquet, there will be a chance to join some of the honorees at an informal get-together starting at 8:45 pm following the banquet at the Marriott’s bar hosted by Jamie Matczak and Marge Loch-Wouters. We hope to see many youth folks there to celebrate!