LIBT 1100 - Library Visits Executive Summary.

1. A Collection of Collections:
Big and Small We Love Them All!
By
Tamara Blomberg

2. Collection – 2497 Books + a few hundred videos
Budget – $600 + donations (annual)
Governing Body – The Library Subcommittee
Susan Freiboth Bob Marschke
Alise Swan Krista Blomberg
Dan Swan Tammie Blomberg
Staff - Volunteers
OGEMA BAPTIST CHURCH
OGEMA, WI

3. Ogema Baptist
Church Library
Working with an annual budget of
only $600, the OBC library relies on
donations from members of the
community for much of its
collection development.
Serving up to 400 people, the
church library has no paid staff, but
library volunteers do whatever they
can to help out.
Last year the library moved to this
larger, more comfortable room and
put its entire book collection online
and in a computer database. While
the patrons still check things in or
out the old fashioned, card &
stamp way, they can now search
the computer catalog to see what’s
available.

4. The OBC library has Non-fiction on the left.
One interesting fact – The entire NF section
has Dewey classification call numbers in the
200’s.
The back wall is the fiction collection. It
contains a variety of Inspirational
Fiction.

5. Located along the right wall
are the children’s, young
adult & video sections.

6. The Rib Lake Elementary School library serves about 200 students &
teachers from the school district. The children have a scheduled library
time each week to explore and learn their way around the library.
Collection – 9,346
Budget – Approximately $5133
Governing Body - Principal, Administrator and ultimately the District
School Board.
RIB LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
RIB LAKE, WI

7. Rib Lake Elementary
School Library
Budget Breakdown:
$15000 – Common School Fund
$ 400 - All other
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$15400 – Total for all 3 schools
$ 5133 – Total for Elementary
$2500 – Books
$ 824 – Magazine Subscriptions
$ 250 – Circ/Cat Plus Support
$ 265 – Accelerated Reader Tests
$ 93 – AR Tech Support
$ 133 - Office supplies
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$ 4065 – Year to Date

8. Staffing Information:
District Librarian: Annual Salary of $43,000 – This is a Full-time job, split between 3
schools and includes her position as the Elementary Art Teacher.
Library Aide: Paid Position 2 hours per day M-F (no income information available)
HS Student: 1.5 hours per day on M,W, F (unpaid, but receives High School credits)
Volunteers: 2 hours per day M-F with an additional hour on Tue. & Wed.

9. Left – Fiction is divided by AR level
and Author.
Bottom Left – Color Coded AR
Levels
Bottom Right – 4 of 5 AR
computers for students taking
tests.

10. The Rib Lake Public Library is a small community library. The village of Rib Lake
has a population of around 900 people, but the library also serves the
surrounding rural area.
Circulation : 35,000
Budget: $78,000
Governing Body: 5 Member Board of Directors
David Judell – Director (MLIS Librarian -Part-time position)
RIB LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY
RIB LAKE, WI

11. I’ve worked at the Rib Lake Library
as the Circulation Specialist for
almost 5 years. This actually made
the library visit harder to do, since I
already knew the answers to most
of the questions.
Rib Lake Public Library Board of Trustees
Ned Orthmann
Karen Rusch
Tammy Everson
Sara Robisch
Joan Anderson

12. The picture on the left shows the Wisconsin and local history section of the library. It
contains old newspapers dating back to the late 1800’s as well as local high school
yearbooks and county plat books. The picture on the right is the whole non-fiction
section.

13. Children’s Section &
Play Area
My favorite feature of the
children’s section is the mobile
hanging from the ceiling. A few
years ago, the summer library
theme was “Be Creative”. We
told the kids that we were going
to make a one-of-a-kind work of
art for the library. Each child got
one foam hand to decorate any
way they wanted. Then we took
all the hands and created this
mobile. It was only supposed to
stay up for a few months, but
everyone liked it so much that
we never took it down.

14. On the left is the adult fiction and DVD collections. To the back of the this picture is
the Young Adult area with 3 public access computers, but you can’t see it from this
view.
The right picture shows our OPAC which is located on the top of our old card catalog.
We’ll often have people open the drawers and starts searching while the computer
sits idle.

15. The Frances L. Simek Memorial Library is a small community library
serving a city of about 4,800 people and the surrounding area.
Circulation – 125,649 (2008)
Collection – 44,338 (2008)
Governing Body – 8 Member - Board of Directors
Ann Harris - Director
FRANCES L. SIMEK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
400 NORTH MAIN ST.
MEDFORD, WI 54451

16. • Staff:
Ann Harris- Director
Marlene Klemm - Youth Services
Jenny Rundquist - Technical
Services
Donna Klinner - Public Services
Cathy Shaw - Public Services
Marla Hemke - Public Services
Yvonne Dassow - Public Services
• Board of Directors:
Officers:
Dan Miller - President
Joanne Wolf - Vice President
Frank Kleczewski - Secretary
Members:
Joann Simek
Bruce Jochimsen
Joanne Wolf
Deb Berends
Cathy Miller-Temme

17. The Frances L. Simek Memorial Library
offers two different story hours each
week and a summer reading program
during the summer months. They are
located either in this children’s area or
in one of the public meeting rooms
depending on the attendance.
The Medford, WI library has an
active Friends of the Library group
that sponsors adult programming
periodically throughout the year.

18. The library was built due in
a large part to a donation
from Pep & Fran Simek
(the founders of
Tombstone Pizza). The
library was renamed the
Frances L. Simek Memorial
Library after the death of
Fran in 2010.
Periodicals Reference

19. Large Main Library –
Branches – 9 Total
Circulation- Main Library: 638,572 Total: 1,127,055 (2010)
Collection – Main Library: 189,844 Total: 353,911
Budget – $4,365,45
Governing Body – 7 Member Board of Directors
Staff – 6 FT Librarians, 5 FT Paraprofessionals, 5 PT staff
MARATHON COUNTY P. L.
300 NORTH FIRST ST.
WAUSAU, WI 54403

20. • The Marathon County Public Library
Board of Trustees is comprised of seven
members appointed by the Marathon
County Board of Supervisors: two
members of Marathon County Board of
Supervisors, a Superintendent of a
Marathon County school district, and
general public representatives.
• Current Members:
Tim Gierl (President)
Audrey Ascher (Vice President)
Gary Beastron
Ken Day
Alison Morrow
Katie Rosenburg
Scott Winch

21. The Marathon County Public Library is also the home of the Wisconsin
Valley Library Service offices. WVLS is the consortium that MCPL and about
30 other Central Wisconsin libraries belong to, including the Rib Lake Public
Library and the Frances L. Simek Memorial Library. The WVLS offices are
located on the lowest level of the building.
The first floor of the
Marathon County Public
Library was fairly busy the
day we visited. The staff was
friendly and patient with the
patrons at the desk.
The children’s section was
big and colorful. I was
disappointed by the lack of
“print” information on
programming. When I asked
about it, I was directed to
the website.

22. MCPL – 2nd Floor: The second
floor of the library had a
much quieter “studious”
atmosphere, yet was still
fairly busy. This is where the
Reference Desk, Periodicals &
Non-Fiction sections are
found.
There are public meeting
rooms used by MCPL and
WVLS to hold meetings and
workshops on the 3rd floor of
the building.
I visited the library with my teenage daughter. We were both disappointed by
the “TeenZone”. It’s a small area located next to the foreign language
collection and among the non-fiction & reference books. It’s decorated nicely,
but not in a very inviting location.