Library Requests Your Input

The Racine Public Library is continually striving to create services that reflect its community's needs. One area of improvement currently being considered is the usability of the library's website. In an effort to learn more about what you, as a library user, would like to see in an effective and user-friendly website, the library will be collecting feedback via an online and paper survey.

The Racine Public Library Website survey may be accessed at www.racinelibrary.info or at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6XMMFY2. Paper copies are also available at any public service desk at the Racine Public Library, 75 Seventh St., and at the Mobile Library. The survey will be available through May 31, 2010.

Other questions and suggestions may be sent to melissa.donaldson@racinelibrary.info.

Help Us Create a Better Website!

In an ongoing effort to create a web site that reflects the services that help make the library great, we're asking our users to complete this short survey to better learn about what you want and need from our website.

Please take a few minutes to visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6XMMFY2 and complete our survey. We will use the feedback from this survey to determine the changes necessary for improving the site.

We hope you will take the time to carefully consider your answers to the following questions. Please take this survey only once. Send other questions and suggestions to melissa.donaldson@racinelibrary.info.

Proposed Changes in Library Hours

Your input is requested! The Racine Public Library is considering a change in the hours open per week, by reallocating resources, to provide more consistent hours. The new schedule would be more efficient without increasing costs.

The proposal would increase hours on Thursday evenings, (9am to 8pm), Fridays (11am to 4pm), and Saturdays (11am to 4pm); decrease hours Monday-Wednesday (9am to 8pm); and change hours on Sundays (1pm to 4pm). The current hours are:

Monday-Wednesday, 9am-9pm

Thursday, 9am-5:30pm

Friday, 1-5:30pm

Saturday, 1-5pm

Sundays (October-April), 2-5pm

The proposed hours are:

Monday-Thursday, 9am-8pm

Fridays and Saturdays, 11am-4pm

Sundays, October-May, 1-4pm (closing the Sunday before and after Christmas; open during May until the week before Memorial Day)

The Board of Trustees is seeking public input before making a decision on the proposed schedule at their August 21, 2008 meeting. Please fill out the survey on the library’s website (www.racinelibrary.info), or call Jessica MacPhail, Library Director, with your comments (262.636.9252).

Library Visioning Process for Wisconsin

Visioning Questions

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It has been ten years since Wisconsin government sponsored a statewide conference on the future of library services. Given the advances in technology, changing demographics and service needs of Wisconsin's citizens it is time to engage the library community and citizenry in envisioning a new and exciting future for Wisconsin's libraries and information networks. Toward this aim, Superintendent Burmaster and COLAND are sponsoring a Strategic Visioning Summit & Year of the Library's Future as a focus for 2008.

The Summit will take place in the spring of 2008 and will make recommendations to the Superintendent in time for the 2009/11 budget planning process. Recommendations from the Summit should be submitted to the Superintendent in May 2008.

As part of this process, the planning committee is asking members of the Wisconsin library community (and interested others) to consider and respond to some questions. You are encouraged to respond to as many questions as you wish. Your responses are anonymous and will be used to help define the agenda for the Summit. Thanks for your time and your ideas!

Here are the questions; please use the link at the bottom to respond. Thank you!

1. How will the library of the future contribute to the quality of life in our communities?

2. How will the library of the future contribute to the health of our democracy?

3. How will the library of the future contribute to the educational, economic and workforce development of the future?

4. How will the library of the future contribute to the preservation of the heritage and cultures of our communities?

5. How do we design library services and infrastructure to effectively serve everyone in the community?

6. How do we leverage and maximize the investment in education and library services through cooperation/collaboration?

7. What else would like to tell us?

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