LIBRARIES
43.001 Legislative findings and declaration of policy.
43.03 General duties of department.
43.05 General duties of the division.
43.07 Council on library and network development.
43.09 Certificates and standards.
43.11 County library planning committees.
43.15 Standards for public library systems.
43.16 Resource libraries.
43.17 Public library systems; general provisions.
43.18 Withdrawal, abolition and expulsion.
43.19 Federated public library systems.
43.21 Consolidated public library systems.
43.27 Distribution of materials from reference and loan collection to public library systems.
43.30 Public library records.
43.52 Municipal libraries.
43.54 Municipal library board composition.
43.57 Consolidated county libraries and county library services.
43.60 Library extension and interchange.
43.70 Common school fund.
43.001
43.001
Legislative findings and declaration of policy. 43.001(1)(a)
(a) The importance of free access to knowledge, information and diversity of ideas by all residents of this state;
43.001(1)(b)
(b) The critical role played by public, school, special and academic libraries in providing that access;
43.001(1)(c)
(c) The major educational, cultural and economic asset that is represented in the collective knowledge and information resources of the state's libraries;
43.001(1)(d)
(d) The importance of public libraries to the democratic process; and
43.001(1)(e)
(e) That the most effective use of library resources in this state can occur only through interlibrary cooperation among all types of libraries.
43.001(2)
(2) The legislature declares that it is the policy of this state to provide laws for the development and improvement of public libraries, school libraries and interlibrary cooperation among all types of libraries.
43.001 History
History: 1985 a. 177.
43.01
43.01
Definitions. In this chapter:
43.01(1)
(1) "Department" means the department of education.
Effective date note
NOTE: Sub. (1) is shown as amended eff. 1-1-96 by
1995 Wis. Act 27. The treatment by Act 27 was held unconstitutional and declared void by the Supreme Court in Thompson v. Craney, case no.
95-2168-OA. Prior to Act 27 it read:
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(1) "Department" means the department of public instruction.
43.01(2)
(2) "Division" means the division for libraries and community learning in the department.
43.01(3)
(3) "Municipality" means a city, village, town, tribal government or tribal association, or a school district that maintained and operated a public library facility prior to December 17, 1971.
43.01(4)
(4) "Network" means a formal arrangement between libraries or other informational service organizations whereby materials, information and services are exchanged and made available to potential users.
43.01(5)
(5) "Public library system" means a system established as either a federated public library system under
s. 43.19 or a consolidated public library system under
s. 43.21.
43.01(6)
(6) "Secretary" means the secretary of education.
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NOTE: Sub. (6) is shown as repealed and recreated eff. 1-1-96 by
1995 Wis. Act 27. The treatment by Act 27 was held unconstitutional and declared void by the Supreme Court in Thompson v. Craney, case no.
95-2168-OA. Prior to Act 27 it read:
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(6) "State superintendent" means the state superintendent of public instruction.
43.03
43.03
General duties of department. The department shall:
Effective date note
NOTE: Section 43.03 (intro.) is shown as amended eff. 1-1-96 by
1995 Wis. Act 27. The treatment by Act 27 was held unconstitutional and declared void by the Supreme Court in Thompson v. Craney, case no.
95-2168-OA. Prior to Act 27 it read:
Effective date text
43.03 General duties of state superintendent. The state superintendent shall:
43.03(1)
(1) Promote, assist and plan the organization, development and improvement of school library media services to provide the resources needed for teaching and learning in the schools.
43.03(2)
(2) Promote, assist, plan and coordinate the organization, development and improvement of public library services and public library systems to serve the needs of all citizens in the state.
43.03(3)(a)(a) Promote cooperation and resource sharing among public libraries, school libraries, other types of libraries and related agencies.
43.03(3)(b)
(b) Plan, coordinate, evaluate and set statewide priorities for the development of networks to enable library cooperation and resource sharing within this state and between this state and resource providers in other states.
43.03(3)(d)
(d) Submit to the council on library and network development a biennial report which describes the programs and policies carried out under
pars. (a) and
(b) in the preceding biennium and the programs and policies to be carried out under
pars. (a) and
(b) in the succeeding biennium.
43.03(4)
(4) Plan and coordinate the provision of library services to groups with special needs, including institutional residents, the physically and mentally handicapped, the socially and economically disadvantaged and racial and ethnic minorities.
43.03(5)
(5) Accept, on behalf of the state, grants from the federal government or any federal agency or gifts or grants from any other source to be used for the purposes designated under this chapter.
43.03(6)
(6) Enter into an annual contract with the public library in a 1st class city for the provision of library services to physically handicapped persons, including the blind and visually handicapped, certified by competent authority as unable to read or use conventional printed materials as a result of physical limitations. For the purpose of this subsection, "competent authority" means any member of the medical or allied professions, and professional persons in the fields of public health, education, library service, rehabilitation, social work and public welfare.
43.03(7)
(7) Contract for service with libraries and other resource providers in and outside of this state to serve as resources of specialized library materials and information not available in the reference and loan library under
s. 43.05 (11).
43.03(8)
(8) Establish procedures necessary for the internal administrative operation of the division.
43.03(9)
(9) Develop and maintain a computer data base containing bibliographic and library holding information for all types of library materials owned by libraries throughout the state to serve as a resource sharing tool and assist libraries in developing computerized bibliographic data bases.
43.03(10)
(10) Disseminate information regarding appropriate continuing education activities available to librarians, library board members, library support staff and other related professionals.
43.05
43.05
General duties of the division. The division shall:
43.05(1)
(1) Coordinate and conduct continuing education programs for librarians of school library media programs, public libraries, public library systems and institutional library programs.
43.05(2)
(2) As it deems appropriate, assist libraries in the identification and recruitment of qualified personnel.
43.05(3)
(3) Provide professional and technical advisory, consulting and informational services to assist:
43.05(3)(a)
(a) School districts establishing, maintaining or expanding school library media programs and facilities;
43.05(3)(b)
(b) Public libraries, municipalities establishing, maintaining or expanding public libraries, counties establishing, maintaining or expanding public library services, public library systems and their governing bodies;
43.05(4)
(4) Collect library statistics and conduct studies and surveys of library needs throughout the state and report and publish the findings. The research shall be coordinated with statewide library planning.
43.05(5)
(5) Designate a librarian to serve as a coordinator of activities for state document depository libraries under
ss. 35.81 to
35.835 and to fulfill its responsibilities under
ss. 35.81 to
35.835.
43.05(6)
(6) Recommend and distribute standards for school library programs and facilities to school library media programs, standards for public libraries to public library governing bodies and standards for institutional library programs to governing bodies and administrators of institutional library programs and to heads of departments, as defined under
s. 15.01 (8), which administer institutional libraries.
43.05(8)
(8) Establish standards for and issue certificates to public librarians under
s. 43.09 (1).
43.05(9)
(9) Approve the establishment of public library systems under
s. 43.13.
43.05(10)
(10) Administer aids to public library systems under
s. 43.24.
43.05(11)
(11) Maintain a reference and loan library to supplement the collections of all types of libraries in this state by providing specialized materials not appropriately held and information sources not provided by local libraries or readily available from other area or state-level resource providers. The library shall provide specialized information services to state agency libraries and state employes, institution libraries, public library systems, public libraries, school libraries and other types of libraries according to policies developed by the division. Library and information services may include development of collections of specialized materials, interlibrary loan services, reference services, provision of data base search services and maintenance of a statewide data base of library materials. The library may contract with state agencies and libraries to provide library material cataloging and processing services.
43.05(12)
(12) Assist the council on library and network development in the preparation of the descriptive and statistical report to be prepared by the council under
s. 43.07 (5).
43.05(13)
(13) Carry out such other programs and policies as directed by the department.
Effective date note
NOTE: Sub. (13) is shown as amended eff. 1-1-96 by
1995 Wis. Act 27. The treatment by Act 27 was held unconstitutional and declared void by the Supreme Court in Thompson v. Craney, case no.
95-2168-OA. Prior to Act 27 it read:
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(13) Carry out such other programs and policies as directed by the state superintendent.
43.07
43.07
Council on library and network development. The department and the division shall seek the advice of and consult with the council on library and network development in performing their duties in regard to library service. The secretary or the administrator of the division shall attend every meeting of the council. The council may initiate consultations with the department and the division. The council shall:
Effective date note
NOTE: Section 43.07 (intro.) is shown as amended eff. 1-1-96 by
1995 Wis. Act 27. The treatment by Act 27 was held unconstitutional and declared void by the Supreme Court in Thompson v. Craney, case no.
95-2168-OA. Prior to Act 27 it read:
