GET ME REWRITE: Marathon County Public Library Board votes to leave small libraries in the lurch

 

Wisconsin Depaertment of Public Instruction

(Marathon County highlight and arrows added)

WXPR, 1/29/2021

Right now, Marathon, Clark, Taylor, Lincoln, Langlade, Oneida, and Forest Counties make up the Wisconsin Valley Library Service. 

It’s one of 16 Library Service Districts in the state. 

Marathon County wants to join the South Central Library System [SCLS] which is headquartered in Madison and currently comprised of Wood, Portage, Adams, Sauk, Columbia, Dane and Green Counties. 

The basic idea behind different districts is that libraries within them can pool resources, share costs, and support one another more easily than a statewide system.

In 1996 Adams, Portage, and Wood counties seceded from the Wisconsin Valley Library Serivces and joined the South Central Library System.

So how does this move fit into the Public Library System Redesign implementation roadmap?