Yes or no: In-person public service at Wisconsin's largest public libraries

 

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Libraries listed in order by service area population as they appear in the Wisconsin Public Library Service Record.  (Other information gathered from library websites.)

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Memo to libraries:

Please take the guesswork out of whether or not you have reopened your doors.  

Follow the examples of Appleton Public Library

and Waukesha Public Library

and place the message front and center on your homepage.

Thank you.

The presssure is on in Madison.

Wisconsin State Journal, 3/7/2021

“Almost every other local business, nonprofits and retail stores in town have been open for months, but no libraries,” he [David Wallner] wrote Mickells, Rhodes-Conway and others on Feb. 27. “Several friends and I, including several of your constituents, rely on our libraries. We consider this a real sad dereliction of responsibility by our city government. If libraries are an essential city service, why aren’t they opened by now? Why can’t city staff and our elected leaders come up with a decent solution to this problem?”