Major State Level Library Resources and Services in Wisconsin (1974)

Reference and Loan Library (four areas of responsibility

1. Interloan and reference backup service for public libraries and public library systems
2. Library services to state executive agencies and state institutions
3. Interloan backup service for schools
4. Direct mail service as a public library to Wisconsin residents without legal access to a local public library

State Historical Society of Wisconsin

• Research and service agency for Wisconsin historical materials
• Books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, and archives
• Major research collection of federal and state documents
• Publishes checklist of current state documents

State Law Library.  Largest legal research library for the State Supreme Court and the State Department of Justice

Legislative Reference Bureau

• Maintains bill-drafting service
• Collects and makes available reference information on public issues of concern to the Legislature
• Emphasis on current materials
• clippings
• relevant documents from other states and federal sources

Milwaukee Public Library

• Contractual backup resource to the Reference and Loan Library
• Serves as state's Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Constitutes the outstanding academic research collections in the state
• Memorial Library formally established as central interlibrary loan access office for Wisconsin academic libraries
• Serves as backup public library resource to the Reference and Loan Library for Wisconsin adults

Other statewide services

• WILS (Wisconsin Interlibrary Loan Services)
• CLIP (Cooperative Library Information Program)
• CCBC (Cooperative Children's Book Center)

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