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Rick Krumwiede
Terry Dawson
An Invitation to the Library Community
We want to invite Wisconsin Public Librarians and Trustees to participate in a process which has the potential to bring about significant long term improvement to public library service in Wisconsin.
The document posted on this site is based on facilitated discussions conducted at a retreat held in March 2000 in Wausau. The retreat participants were public library system and resource library administrators. The presidents of the Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries and the Wisconsin Library Association as well as the chair of WLA's Library Development and Legislation Committee also participated. Staff of the Division for Libraries, Technology and Community Learning helped facilitate the discussions.
Using this document as background reading your library system will be holding discussion(s) this summer to obtain information from you and other librarians and trustees about how, for the next ten or twenty years, the state should be involved in providing services to public libraries and what the nature of those services should be. Results of these discussions will be compiled, reported out, and become the basis for a program at the Wisconsin Library Association Conference this fall.
Note! This process is being conducted as a project of the System and Resource Library Administrators Association of Wisconsin in the interest of generating ideas for how we may improve public library service in Wisconsin. The results of this undertaking will be used to influence the future of public library service, including library legislation. But there are no guarantees of implementation of any of the results of this process.
That said, we strongly encourage you to participate in this process. Public library service in Wisconsin is good, even very good in some places. With your help we can make it even better.
Milton Mitchell,
Chair, SRLAAW
Barbara Kelly, President, WLA
Calvin Potter, Administrator, DLTCL
June 5, 2000
