Meeting Service Needs and Budget Challenges @ the Manitowoc Public Library

Manitowoc Public Library

Library facing major budget challenges.  (Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter, 11/6/2012)

Meeting service needs:

• Increase in summer hours
• 62% boost in Saturday circulations
• Part-time adult tutoring service coordinator
• Hiring of 2 part-time professional libraries
• Development of searchable local history index of people, places, and events
• Enhancement of children's programs, including early literacy
• Increasing and updating automated checkout equipment (express checkout)
• Automated materials handler

Budget Challenges

• Reduction of 4.25 staff positions since 2010
• Mayor recommends a $100,000 reduction in appropriation in 2013