The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium is more than just OverDrive

Guest post from the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium

What do you think of when you think of the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC)? If you said “OverDrive,” you aren’t alone. WPLC and the Wisconsin Digital Library are almost synonymous for many.

But did you know that WPLC does more than just coordinate the OverDrive collection?

WPLC also…

• Funds author and writer resources from BiblioBoard: Pressbooks, SELF-e, the Wisconsin Author Project, and the BiblioBoard Library.
• Coordinates and funds the annual hosting cost for the historical newspapers found in the Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers.
• Funds a portion of the costs for Recollection Wisconsin so that any public library can host their historical digital collections on the Recollection Wisconsin platform without any annual costs.
• Funds one-time and experimental projects, such as the user/non-user research project, which developed educational resources around research for Wisconsin public libraries.

If you’re in a public library that belongs to a public library system, then your library is a member of WPLC. You have a representative on the WPLC Board and Digital Library Steering Committee. If you have any questions about WPLC, please feel free to reach out to them directly or to the project managers at wplc-info@wils.org.

Want to read more about WPLC? Check out the website, the brochure, or join the WPLC mailing list.