Updated: 02/07/05
This site maintained by:
Rick Krumwiede
Terry Dawson
Documents related to specific agenda items are often distributed to SRLAAW members prior to a meeting, and additional documents are usually distributed at meetings. This page contains links to some of the documents that have been discussed or distributed at SRLAAW meetings.
February 7, 2005 Meeting Documents
System Size and Organization (PDF) - This a copy of the study conducted by UW-Madison SLIS on library system size and organization.
November 19, 2004 Meeting Documents
SRLAAW Interlibrary Loan Committee Final Report (PDF) - This SRLAAW Committee, chaired by Alan Engelbert, met throughout 2003 and 2004 to indentify ILL alternatives and the data necessary to evaluate them.
Draft Wisconsin Public Library Standards (4th edition) Checklists - DLTCL document in MS Word.
Draft Wisconsin Public Library Standards (4th edition) Spreadsheets - This Excel spreadsheet is based on 2003 statistics for the standards showing actual 30th (basic), 50th (moderate), 70th (enhanced), and 90th (excellent) percentiles. This spreadsheet has two worksheets--one for the standards by municipal population and another for the standards by library service population.
Administrative Essentials: A Handbook for Wisconsin Public Library Directors - October, 26, 2004. This DLTCL document (MS Word) is a partial draft that contains 10 out of a planned 26 sections.
WEMA Legislative Retreat Report (PDF)
August 22, 2003 Meeting Documents
LSTA Public Library System Study: a Committee Report (PDF) - On July 21, 2003 a committee was appointed to provide suggestions to DLTCL for the implementation of the LSTA Public Library System Study grant category. This report was submitted by the committee, which included David Polodna (Chair), Karen Krueger, Rick Krumwiede, and Jessica MacPhail.
April 23, 2003 Meeting Documents
Maintenance of Effort Statutory Relief Proposal (PDF) - David Weinhold and Sharon Winkle developed the following proposal in response to concerns about the effect of non-compliance with the maintenance of effort requirement for public library system membership.
February 28, 2003 Meeting Documents
Resolution for Free Public Library Services (Word) - The Wisconsin Library Association Board has adopted a resolution to affirm free public library service in Wisconsin. A draft of the WLA resolution was distributed at the SRLAAW meeting. Posted here is a version of the resolution in Microsoft Word that can be modified for use by any library, library system, or governing body.
December 4, 2002 Meeting Documents
System
Funding Advocacy Plan (PDF) - Adopted, December 4, 2002
Prepared by Mark Arend, Phyllis Davis, David Polodna, and Jim Zwadlo;
with suggestions from others who attended the WLA Advocacy Workshop, 11/21/2002.
January 28, 2002 Meeting Documents
Joint
Library Issues for Wisconsin Libraries (PDF) - January 15, 2002
Prepared by Wausheka County Federated Library System Director Tom Hennen,
this paper provides background information on joint library issues in
order to help communities determine the feasibility and desirability of
establishing a joint library.
Report
to System and Resource Library Administrator’s Association of Wisconsin
on Library Standards in Wisconsin (PDF) - January 22, 2002
This draft report was prepared by a SRLAAW standards committee consisting
of Joan Airoldi, Mark Merrifield, and Tom Hennen. An Excel spreadsheet
details the information by system, county, and library.
November 16, 2001 Meeting Documents
Dane
County Plan for Library Service (PDF) - April 6, 2000
The plan includes minimum standards for public libraries. The standards
have been adopted by the Dane County Board of Supervisors.
Waukesha
County Library Standards (PDF) - September 8, 2001
This document describes the standards that must be met in order for a
library to qualify for exemption from the county library tax. Of special
interest is a fifth standard, Library Services Effort Ratio, that can
be used instead of four numerical standards to qualify for exemption.
Walworth
County Library Plan (PDF) - June 2000
This county plan requires libraries to meet specific quantitative standards
included in the Wisconsin Public Library Standards, i.e., FTE staff
per 1000 service population, hours open to the public, collection size
for service population. In addition, libraries will be required to meet
any three of the remaining quantitative standards.
A
Few Ideas Conceived Over Breakfast (PDF) - October 2001
This paper summarizes some ideas for coping with the current political,
financial, and technological environment. The paper is the result some
brainstorming done by four system directors.
Summary
of County Library Tax Issues in Ozaukee County (PDF) - November 12,
2001
Two issues emerged during budget discussions in Ozaukee County that could
be of interest to others.
County
Shared Library Services Levy (PDF) - November 13, 2001
The Waukesha County Federated Library System proposes legislation that
"will provide counties a tool to account for Crossover Borrowing
as well as for other shared services such as full text databases, shared
automated circulation systems, or buildings, that are provided to all
residents of a county uniformly."
