Wisconsin Public Library Revenue by Source: Federal, State, County, Municipal (2007-2012)

A follow-up to this post based on data published by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Why We Absolutely Need To Care More About Library Funding.  (Huffington Post, 5/8/2014)

It would seem, then, that our challenge is to make libraries more visible to the powerful, to our communities' "influentials".  The bottom line is libraries and the institutions associated with them are predictable and convenient targets for anyone taking an axe to a government budget. While the services they provide are vital, they're relatively invisible to the powerful.

Total revenue declined by 1% from 2011 to 2012.

Source: Wisconsin Public Library Service Data