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Black River Falls Public Library.
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Black River Falls Public Library.
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Jackson County is a member of the Winding Rivers Library System.Libraries dealing with funding change. (Jackson County
Chronicle, 12/7/2011)
Excerpt: Libraries in Jackson County are trimming their 2012 budgets after the state eliminated a provision requiring municipalities to fund libraries at the average of the prior three years.
The city of Black River Falls reduced its funding to the Black River Falls Public Library by $4,000 after the requirement was eliminated. The library received $141,000 from the city for its total $296,000 budget for 2011, and it will receive $137,000 from the city for 2012.
However, the village of Taylor maintained its funding level for Taylor Memorial Library, allocating the same $18,000 for 2012 as it did in 2011.
"Something's got to give.— It's got to be hours or materials or both," said Black River Falls Public Library Director Muriel Gunderson. "The (provision) allowed libraries to plan for the future and be able to predict what their budgets were from year to year — they remained stable if not better."
"Now the city can determine whatever they want to give us."Related post:Jackson County: A Half Century of Growth in Public Library Use. (1/12/2011)
Library patrons using more electronic materials. (Jackson County
Chronicle, 11/16/2011)
Excerpt: Black River Falls’ Marjorie Halverson purchased an electronic book reader two years ago when she was having back surgery so people wouldn’t have to bring her paper copies during her recovery.
Halverson’s device — an Amazon Kindle — now is filled with more than 100 books she purchased. But now the 65-year-old avid reader has been checking out electronic books for her device at the Black River Falls Public Library rather than paying for them.
“I think it’s wonderful because I definitely love using the library (and) this will make it so much easier,” she said. “If you can get them through the library, there’s no reason to buy them.”
Black River Falls Public Library’s Kindle users just recently became able to download books to their devices after the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium’s electronic book collection became compatible with the device.
The move is one of many that represent the library’s move to accommodate patrons who are becoming more interested in using electronic and digital materials.
