Maintenance of Effort: There at the Creation

From the November-December 2001 issue of Channel

According to Mike Cross, Director, Public Library Development Team in the Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning, the maintenance of effort requirement for system membership for both municipalities and counties has been in the statutes since the beginning of Wisconsin library systems, i.e., since 1971.

John DeBacher, Public Library Administration Consultant, dug up the original 1971 law.