For about two years, the Wisconsin library community has
been hard at work examining and re-thinking the way services are delivered to
public libraries around our state. The culmination of that work so far
can be found in the
PLSR
Workgroup Recommendation Reports. These are recommendations made by
workgroups that have been studying various aspects of system services about
ways to restructure and reorganize these services to provide excellent and
equitable service throughout the state.
Maybe you have been not paying very much attention to this whole project, but guess what? Now it is time to start paying attention! There are things in these recommendations that will make a difference for youth services librarians--what happens with systems in Wisconsin does affect what kinds of consulting and continuing education is offered, for one thing. Now is your chance to check it out and weigh in on what you think!
This is no small
task—there are over 300 pages of reading, here. Still, this
matters!
If you read the recommendations and
provide feedback (by May 1), the resulting product will be stronger.
Your
positive comments are as valuable as your constructive criticisms—the people
determining the next steps in the process will find both extremely useful as
they try to determine how to move forward. Even if you don't have time to read the
whole thing, read the sections that you care the most about, and then take the
time to respond so that the
Core
Recommendation Collaborators and the
Steering Committee are
working with as much information as possible for the next step.
Labels: feedback, library system services, PLSR