Thank you for accepting appointment to your community's library board. As a public library trustee you help guide the public library in your community--an institution essential to both individual and community well-being. For generations, public libraries have provided free access to the knowledge, information and diversity of ideas essential to a democratic society.
Your public library can provide so many wonderful services and resources: from storytimes for preschoolers to instruction in use of the Internet for senior citizens, from summer reading programs for children of all ages to special resources needed by the local business community. As a library board member, you can help ensure that your library provides needed services to everyone in your community. As a volunteer citizen board member, you have direct knowledge of the particular needs of your community and a unique ability to advocate for necessary library services.
We hope that this handbook will assist you with your important responsibilities. Again, thank you for serving as a library trustee--your service is essential to your community and your community's future.
Elizabeth Burmaster
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Trustee Essentials: A Handbook for Wisconsin Public Library Trustees was prepared by the DLTCL with the assistance of the Trustee Handbook Revision Task Force. Copyright 2002 Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Duplication and distribution for not-for-profit purposes permitted with this copyright notice. This publication is also available at http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/handbook.html.
January 2, 2002
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