Library Video Collections: Another One Bites the Dust

Library giving away VHS tapes collection.  (Junean County Star-Times, 12/25/2012)

Excerpt: Chalk up another victim in the forced march of technology, which has left once commonplace items like the floppy disk and photographic film — and the library card catalog, for that matter — in the ditch.

 The Oshkosh Public Library first offered videocassettes for checkout in late 1984.

Waupun Public Library Patron Not in Pleasant Holiday Mood

Waupun man arrested for gun threat at library. (Fond du Lac Reporter, 12/22/2012)

Excerpt: Waupun Police Department officers responded to the Waupun Public Library for a man threatening to return to the library with a gun Friday afternoon. 

The 46-year-old man was found and arrested on Walker Street in Waupun and was taken to the Dodge County Jail on charges of threat to a department of commerce or department of workforce development employee, according to Waupun Police Deputy Chief Scott Louden.

2014 Anticipated Groundbreaking for New Cambridge Community Library

Cambridge Community Library

Decade-long Cambridge library effort closing in on goal. (Wisconsin State Journal, 12/25/2012)

Excerpt: The small existing library is squeezed into a second-floor wing of the village’s community center. The new facility would be connected to the center. At 6,800 square feet, it would be three times as big as the current library. 

In early December, the Cambridge Village Board signaled its intent to commit $400,000 to the project. The board of the neighboring town of Christiana recently voted to donate $54,000. 

The library group already has $612,000 in the bank, for a combined total of just over $1 million.