Advocacy
Campaign for Wisconsin Libraries
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
Economic Impact/Economic Development
Economic Contribution of Wisconsin Public Libraries to the Economy of Wisconsin, NorthStar Economics, Inc., 2008
Economic Impact Studies and Resources
Governor Announces Grow Wisconsin Initiative to Increase Jobs and Raise Incomes, Wisconsin Governor's Office, 2003
Making Cities Stronger: Public Library Contributions to Local Economic Development, The Urban Library Council, 2007
Worth Their Weight: An Assessment of the Evolving Field of Library Valuation, Americans for Libraries Council, 2007
http://www.actforlibraries.org/pdf/WorthTheirWeight.pdf
Governance
Pat Fisher, Ellen Miller, and James Connor, Effective Governance for Rural Libraries, WebJunction, 2007
Library/School Library Media Center Roles and Services
The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition: A report to OCLC membership, OCLC, 2004
2006 School Library Media Study: Student Learning Through Wisconsin School Library Media Centers, Department of Public Instruction
Cynthia Nikitin and Josh Jackson, Libraries that Matter, Project for Public Places, 2006
Kaplan, Allison G., Is Your School Librarian 'Highly Qualified?', Phi Delta Kappan, December 2007
Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public Leadership and Attitudes about Libraries in the 21st Century, Public Agenda, 2006
Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space, Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005
Mates, Barbara T., Information Access for People With Disabilities, Library Technology Reports, May/Jun2004, Vol. 40 Issue 3
Nina Sonenberg, Libraries for the Future: Innovation in Action, Libraries for the Future, 2005
Other Resources
School Libraries Work, Scholastic Research and Results, Scholastic Library Publishing, 2008
SLA and the Global Community: Gaining Worldwide Recognition, Information OutLook, v.12 No.2, February, 2008
Smith, Bruce, Statewide Library Delivery in Wisconsin: The Present and Future Landscape, South Central Library System, 2008
Reading
Talks Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks: hello open-source learning, TED Ideas worth spreading (Internet site)
To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence, National Endowment for the Arts, 2007
Resource Sharing
COLAND Biennial Report on the Condition and Progress of Wisconsin Libraries, 2006-2007, Department of Public Instruction, 2007
COLAND Biennial Progress Report 2006-07
COLAND Issues Paper on ILL and Resource Sharing in Wisconsin, February 23, 2008
Manifesto for Rethinking Resource Sharing, Rethinking Resource Sharing Policies Committee, 2007
State Superintendent's Report on Intertype Library Cooperation and Resource Sharing 2013-15, Department of Public Instruction, 2015
Wisconsin Interlibrary Loan Guidelines, Department of Public Instruction, 2016
State-level Library Service Websites
Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning
Delivery Services (South Central Library System Statewide)
Wisconsin Educational and Technology Media Association (WEMTA)
Wisconsin Health Science Library Association
Recollection Wisconsin (New Wisconsin Heritage Online)
Wisconsin Library Services (WiLS)
Technology
BadgerNet: Wisconsin's Statewide Telecommunications Network
Bocher, Robert, A Summary of the ALA Study on Library Bandwidth Issues, Department of Public Instruction, 2007
Information Behavior of the Researcher of the Future, UCL, 2008
Information Searches that Solve Problems, How people use the internet, libraries, and government agencies when they need help, PEW/Internet and American Life Project and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, December 30, 2007
Library Information and Technology Advisory Committee Issue Papers
These papers are available on the agenda and minutes page
- Information Literacy: Wisconsin's 21st Century Libraries
- BadgerLink
- Consumer-Driven Digital Products: Downloadable audio/video and the impact on libraries
- Virtual reference services
- Interlibrary Loan
Meeting the information needs of the American People: Past Actions and Future Initiatives, U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, March 2008.
Perceptions of Idaho's Digital natives on Public Libraries, Idaho Commission for Libraries, 2007
Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World: A Report to the Membership, OCLC, 2007