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June/July
2002
Volume XXXIX, Number 6
Hey Buddy, Can You Share a Dime?
When we think of libraries, the word that often comes to mind is lending. A better word might be sharing. Each of us has access to a wealth of information because our public library shares the material in its collection with us, making it possible for each of us to use materials that we probably wouldn’t be able to afford (or store) on our own.
Sharing also takes place between libraries – through interlibrary loan or shared online catalogs – opening the door to a virtually unlimited wealth of knowledge and entertainment.
Library systems, such as WVLS, facilitate another kind of sharing - sharing that patrons seldom see in action - but from which they benefit greatly. Who coordinates the transfer of all of that sharing between libraries? The library system. Who helps train the librarians, providing continuing education opportunities to make sure that your library is as up-to-date as possible? The library system.
The library system also shares special skills that an individual library may not have or be able to afford on its own. For example, one of our libraries wanted to start a library web site. A local web designer was able to create and maintain the site for them, but it was going to cost about $3,200 the first year! It seemed out of the question until they discovered that WVLS was able to share some space on the system web server and share the skills of the system web designer. Savings to the library the first year? More than $3,000!
To make such system/library sharing possible, Wisconsin provides funds to each of the state’s 17 library systems. Unfortunately, even though library systems' costs continue to increase, funding to the systems is dropping. This is especially troubling when you consider that $100 in 1992 is worth only about $80 today. Plus, the services that people expect from their libraries has increased rapidly during the past decade (think computers, Internet, CDs, DVDs).
Libraries and library systems do a great job of sharing resources; of making a dollar stretch.
But they’ve got to have the dollar to begin with.
(adapted from an article in Round About IFLS, July 2002)
State $$$ to Library Systems
1992............$10,756,700
1993............$11,072,200
1994............$11,538,200
1995............$11,772,200
1996............$11,772,200
1997............$11,772,200
1998............$12,863,800
1999............$13,249,800
2000............$13,249,800
2001............$14,749,800
2002............$14,749,800
2003............$14,196,683
T.B. Scott Library is Wisconsin's Library of the Year!
T.B. Scott Free Library, Merrill, has been selected by the Awards and Honors Committee of the Wisconsin Library Association as the Library of the Year for 2002! WLA has been presenting this award since 1955 and is conferred upon ‘any type of library, library system, or library network for distinguished achievement in service."
From its opening in 1891 the library has continued to "grow" its services and facilities to meet the changing needs of its users. Today it stands as a model library that other communities, regardless of size, can emulate. Outstanding outreach, a commitment to innovation and technology, and strong community ties are all hallmarks of this library. Merrill Mayor Douglas C. Williams states, "The community has let it be known that they are proud of the historic value of our library, proud of what we have accomplished to date, and proud to be able to provide a quality facility for our children’s future."
Programming and Partnerships
According to Norma Wehlitz, member of the T.B. Scott Library Board of Trustees, active member of the Friends of the Library, and trustee of the Wisconsin Valley Library Service, "It is the variety and vitality of the programming that makes T.B. Scott Library the heart of the community."
The staff has creatively and energetically developed in-house and outreach programs for people of all ages and has forged strong local networks as well. The library’s Youth Services Department offers programs for babies through teens, including weekly story times for infants and preschoolers; class visits for preschool, elementary and high school students; a summer library program which encourages children to continue reading and learning when school is not in session; and a Teen Advisory Board that provides input to the staff. Partnerships with Good Samaritan Health Center, the Merrill Historical Society, the Family Resource Center, public and parochial schools, area organizations and businesses have been particularly noteworthy. In addition, the library has been exemplary in involving and listening to the citizens of the community while planning for services and a building remodeling, and in utilizing volunteers to extend programs and services.
Sharing Resources
T.B. Scott Library is an excellent example of how even a relatively small library can show vision and leadership in the development of library services, both locally and regionally. The library is a member of WVLS, which provides regional services to libraries in seven north central Wisconsin counties. Despite the fact that T.B. Scott Library is not the largest library in the WVLS area, the board and staff opened up their Dynix computer database and equipment to other public libraries throughout WVLS in order to help create a shared automation system that is now used by 76% of the libraries. The willingness of the library to work closely with WVLS on V-Cat has resulted in far-reaching service and shared resources for people in the Merrill area as well as residents of eighteen other communities.
Outreach
In 1898 the Merrill Traveling Library Association was formed to take library service to people who found it difficult to get to the library. The outreach program has evolved throughout the years as society has changed, but remains an important part of the library’s services. Last year the outreach coordinator and her volunteers made 520 deliveries, carrying almost 11,500 items to individual homes, the Merrill Senior Center, and nine group residences.
Building for the Future
Outstanding planning by the staff and community, a successful building referendum and $1.5 million in pledges resulted in a renovation and expansion of the original 1911 Carnegie library building completed just a year ago. Doubling the square footage of the building has allowed the library to add services. New features include complete handicapped accessibility, a storyhour room for young children, a special area for teens, a genealogy/local history room, small and large group meeting rooms, a place for assistive technology, additional computers, and space for collection growth. Community support was not a one-time thing. People consistently use the library and its many services, volunteer their time for a variety of library projects, and donate to the gift and endowment funds. Library Director Beatrice Lebal comments, "We love our community and they love us back!"
The Award
This award, along with other distinguished awards, will be presented in Middleton at the WLA conference Awards and Honors Banquet on Thursday, October 31st, from 7:00-9:00 p.m. T.B. Scott Library also received this honor in 1977, when it was recognized for being an "outstanding example of what a library can do and be in a small community."
(WLA media release)
Congratulations, T. B. Scott Library!
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Measuring a Library's Unmeasurable Value - There is more to measuring the value of library service than looking at numbers. The full impact of public library services on individuals and communities cannot be demonstrated by statistics alone. The library profession has been a little backward in using qualitative data as a recognized way of looking at the value of services. Social scientists have been doing it for more than 50 years, but librarians and their policy makers, have always tended simply to look at things you can put a number on. Bob Usherwood and his colleague Rebecca Linley developed such a method and carried out a social audit of two British libraries.
They took the approach that there is a lot of qualitative data which can be audited in the same way as financial auditors audit figures. This gives visibility to what the library is actually doing.
Usherwood and Linley took a stakeholder approach to their research, soliciting the view of three main groups: the politicians, the library professionals, and a range of library users and potential users. One-to-one interviews were conducted with the politicians and the professionals, and focus groups were run with users and nonusers. Using that method of triangulation, they created a picture of what the library was actually doing in terms of things like social cohesion and community identity – matters which can be seen as the social and caring aspects of a library service.
It was an approach that resulted in some striking findings. The final report demonstrated that the recognized and established functions of the public library, in terms of education , information, culture and leisure, remain important but, at the same time, it identified social and caring roles, showing that public libraries promote social cohesion and community identity by fostering connections between groups and communities.
One interesting result was the role of the library in keeping small shopping communities going, rather than (as you might expect) it being the other way around. In other words, in small towns people will go into town in order to go to the library and then visit the local shops, not vice versa. They also made some interesting observations of the value of small libraries. If you’re just measuring things like number of items in the collection or circulation levels, there’s a lot of pressure to close small libraries. But, if you put it in the wider social context, such as stopping old people from feeling isolated or providing small communities with an identity, and then add all those things up, you might well come to a different conclusion on whether you want to open or close a service point. Their key point is that qualitative data, rigorously gathered, is valid evidence of the value and impact of library service. The results of a social audit could prove to be a valuable marketing tool in the sense that it can provide many kinds of valid evidence of the value of a library to your funding sources - be they municipalities, politicians or boards of trustees.
The study is available in a book, New Measures for the New Library; A Social Audit of Public Libraries, published by the British Library Board. Copies and further information are available from Bob Usherwood, Centre for the Public Library in the Information Society, Dept. of Information Studies, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K. +44(0) 114 (This article was edited from "Measuring the Unmeasurable Value" by Jo Lyon in the December ‘98 issue of MLS. The full article can be found online at http://www.infotoday.com/mls/dec98/story.htm)
Wisconsin Library PR – check out the article by John Thompson, WLA PR Chair, in the May-June issue of Channel. The WLA PR Committee is developing a public relations "took kit" web site for Wisconsin library staff to help them promote libraries of all types…promotions, news releases, local contacts, sample of the month, website of the month…worth a look. www.wla.lib.wi.us Click on ‘WLA Public Relations.’
--Heather Eldred
Winter in the Summer. Staff from the three northern systems in Wisconsin met recently at the Winter Public Library to discuss ways in which systems might work collaboratively to improve service to their member libraries. Pictured from left to right are: Heather Eldred and Marla Sepnafski (Wisconsin Valley Library Service); Sandra Robbers (Indianhead Federated Library System; and Joan Airoldi and Linda Stobbe (Northern Waters Library Service).
Houston Public Library has received its most unique donation ever – a green cow! Moo-la $$$ the cow, donated by James Bashaw and family, is one of 300+ fiberglass art cows in CowParade Houston. Moo-la $$$, who spent her CowParade days luxuriating at the Houstonian, was created by a HPL staffer, and co-sponsored for the CowParade by Bashaw, president of the stock brokerage firm James E. Bashaw & Co. Bashaw, under the guise of "Moolamaster," made the winning bid during the online CowParade auction and presented the library with its first "in cow-ind" donation.
Moo-la $$$ is happy at her new home at the Houston Public Library where she can be found grazing in the lobby of the Central Library. She will soon be "on tour," visiting library branches throughout the city to promote the library and help with their fund-raising efforts. According to the Houston Public Library (TX) newsletter (Winter 2002) staff are very excited to have Moo-la $$$ help blaze the trail in making HPL a "World Class Library," and extended their thanks to the bovine-loving Bashaws for their moooovelous donation!
(edited from Library Administrator’s Digest, May 2002)
Editor’s Note: Having a fund-raising mascot like Moo-la $$$ sounds like a "moooognificent" idea for libraries in the dairy state!
Youth Need 40 Developmental Assets
Based on research conducted since 1958, Search Institute has identified 40 developmental assets that all young people need to grow up to be healthy, principled and caring adults. The more assets a young person has developed, the more likely they are to make positive choices. Conversely, the fewer assets a young person has developed, the more likely they are to become involved in risk-taking behaviors. It has been found nationwide that most students have fewer than half of these 40 assets.
It doesn’t require a lot of money or special training to build developmental assets. Here are six keys to guide asset-building action:
The list of 40 developmental assets as well as tips for focusing on each one is too long to include in its entirety here, but following are a few of them:
Asset #8 – Youth as Resources
Kids who have this asset believe they are given useful roles in the community. Parents who involve their children in family decision-making build this asset. You can build this asset at home by asking for input from all family members and taking their interests, talents and opinions seriously. Provide age-appropriate roles and chores that contribute to the family’s well-being and remind young people often that these tasks are important to the family as a whole. In the community, find a youth to create a website for your organization. Encourage the perception that young people are resources with skills, talents and abilities to be tapped, as opposed to problems that need to be controlled. Meet with a child’s school administrators to encourage use of student’s ideas. Encourage children to get involved in extra-curricular activities where they can plan and carry out something that is important to them. Check out websites like www.youthonboard.org, www.youthactionnet.org and www.yar.org for more ideas.
Asset #12 – School Boundaries
Kids have this asset when their schools set clear rules and consequences for student behavior. All schools must have a conduct code that is compiled and revised with student input. All students and their parents are required to read, understand and accept the consequences of non-conformance by signing the code at the beginning of the school year. It is important that parents support school boundaries to help children learn to accept externally imposed limitations as part of life. If student handbooks are out of date, boring, or too long, involve students in the revision process. Use a peer mediation program as one way to resolve boundary violations. Adequate adult supervision must be provided in lunchrooms, hallways, on the playground, and other areas where students gather. Expect all students to behave responsibly, and if they don’t, enforce consequences fairly and consistently. When possible, make school boundaries consistent throughout the community, from school to school. As a community, support school leaders, administrators, teachers and staff, and encourage them to create and enforce policies that establish clear consequences for out-of-bounds behavior and reinforce in-bounds behavior.
Asset #39 – Sense of Purpose
Kids who have this asset believe that their life has a purpose. The best way to help young people develop a sense of purpose is to show them that your life has meaning. Do things that matter to you, develop your talents, pursue your dreams! Have each member of your family make a list of five things he or she is passionate about. Ask younger children what they like doing more than anything else. Compare and discuss the lists – there will probably be a few surprises! Now, go out and explore passions together! Hang inspirational quotes that communicate family values on the refrigerator. Limit TV, computer and telephone time. Instead, encourage and provide opportunities for kids to use that time to explore and develop talents and interests.
For the complete list of 40 assets, contact Beth Sillars at the WVLS office (phone 715.261.7255; email sillars@wvls.lib.wi.us) or Debi McGregor, Community Initiatives Coordinator (phone 715.848.2927; email dmcgregor@unitedwaymc.org)
State Building Code Change Alert
Thanks to a relatively simple question posed by a member library, I learned about a resource for construction information that may be helpful if you are planning a new building or a remodeling project at your library, and a change on the horizon for the state building code.
So here’s the question: If a public library has two small (smaller than ADA requirements) bathrooms, can they be remodeled and combined into one large unisex bathroom that does meet ADA requirements? And here is the multiple-part answer: A library may create an accessible unisex bathroom that meets ADA and state building codes if: 1) this is a remodeling project, rather than a new building project; 2) the library currently only has one bath-room; or 3) the library currently doesn’t have any bathroom. However, if a library currently has a men’s and a women’s bathroom, they cannot remodel and go to one unisex bathroom. If new construction is involved, a library must have at least two bathrooms that are completely accessible, one for men and one for women.
The question came from the board of a small local library that was considering its space needs and thinking about projects that would enable them to remodel their space and meet the ADA guidelines. The answer came (due to some excellent detective work by Barb Huntington, DLTCL) from a building plan review at the Wisconsin Department of Commerce, Safety and Buildings Division. In the course of researching this question I learned that as of July 1, Wisconsin will be dropping its current building code and will be following the ICC (International Code Council) code, a single set of comprehensive and coordinated model construction codes which are being adopted by states across the nation. By working with a set of requirements consistent throughout the United States, architects, engineers, designers, and contractors can focus on higher quality construction and benefit from uniform code enforcement. (See http://www.intlcode.org/about/index.htm)
If you are considering making structural alterations at your library, make sure that any professional you engage for the project is aware of this July 1st change and is appropriately certified to work with the revised code. The Safety and Buildings Division home page has many useful links and contact information, including the locations of regional offices for the Division. If you click on "Site Structure," you can find a county by county listing of division staff. For further details, go to http://www.commerce.state.wi.us/SB/SB-HomePage.html
(edited from article in the June/July 2002 issue Whirlpools, newsletter of the Winding Rivers Library System)
2001 Library Statistics Now Available
The Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning’s (DLTCL’s) Public Library Development Team annually collects statistics from the state’s public libraries. The Excel files of the data collected for 2001 are now available and include over 125 data elements grouped by general categories such as circulation, collection, staffing, service population, income, and expenditures. These files also are grouped into four separate files defined as statistics at the state and system levels; statistics at the county level; statistics at the public library level; and statistics at the public library level by system and county. While 2001 represents the latest available data, Excel files of library statistics data going back to 1996 also are available. The older data files can be used for comparison purposes. The 1996-2001 statistics are available at http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dltcl/pld/lib_stat.html For more information, contact Al Zimmerman at 608.266.3939 or alan.Zimmerman@dpi.state.wi.us
Finding ordinances and codes for your own county, town or municipality is usually not too difficult a task. You probably have a print copy in your library, and they might be available on your city or county’s website, but what about those of neighboring counties, or cities across the state? Many are now on the web, but how can you locate them efficiently?
Try the Codes & Ordinances page on the WI State Law Library web site. The direct URL is http://wsll.state.wi.us/ordinances.html You’ll find a handy list of links, arranged alphabetically.
If you know of any web-based Wisconsin local codes or ordinances that are not listed on that page, please send the URL to Amy Crowder, Web Resources Librarian/Cataloger, WI State Law Library amy.crowder@courts.state.wi.us
--Connie Von Der Heide, Wisconsin State Law Library
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Check This Out!
New E-Books Now Available!
Did you know that there are now approximately 9,000 electronic books available for your patrons to check out? This "virtual library" is available as a result of WVLS' membership in the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium. Following is a sample of titles recently added to the collection:
ATTENTION: If you need a refresher course on accessing and searching the e-book collection (Netlibrary), please contact the WVLS office at 715.261-7250. We’d be glad to help!
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Daily e-book and e-book clubs are popular: E-book publisher Chapter-A-Day is trying to get people to read by offering free reads that are emailed each day...To finish the book a reader must purchase the ending...So far the service has nearly 100,000 subscribers… Chapter-A-Day also has developed book clubs for schools, businesses and libraries throughout the U.S…At a similar company, Classic-Novels is making thousands of classics available to readers in serialized, daily e-mails and has recently started to publish contemporary writings.
Library heavyweights getting into e-book distribution: Baker & Taylor has thrown its hat into the e-book distribution ring and will be focusing on selling to libraries… They already have the backing of several major publishers…Their service, called eContent Distribution, is conjectured to go head-to-head with OCLC’s Netlibrary.
E-Book promotion and delivery could be wireless, instant: A joint test project of Simon & Schuster, Via-com and Streetbeam involves a setup of kiosks distributed around an area that can beam chapters or selections or entire texts of e-books to your handheld reader…The first application will be for book promotion.
(edited from Library Futures Quarterly, Summer 2002)
Government-Produced Web Sites for Kids / Educators
Portals
Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids: http://bensguide.gpo.gov
Maintained as a service of the Government Printing Office, it serves as the educational component of GPO Access. The site provides learning tools for K-12 students, teachers and parents and serves as a locator service for government web sites developed for kids.FirstGov for Kids: http://www.kids.gov
An interagency project that is maintained by the Federal Consumer Information Center. It provides links to Federal kids’ sites along with some of the best kids’ sites from other organizations all grouped by subject.
Web Sites
: Library of Congress http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgiAmerica’s Library
AstroCappella: Astronomy and music http://www.astrocappella.com
CIA’s Homepage for Kids: http://www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids/index.html
Explorers’ Club: From the Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/kids
FBI for Kids: http://www.fbi.gov/kids
Girl Power: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services http://www.girlpower.gov
Imagine the Universe: From NASA’s High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov
Money Central Station: U.S. Treasury http://www.bep.treas.gov/kids/start.html
NASA Kids: Info from NASA http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov
Patent and Trademark Office: http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids
Starchild: For young astronomers http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
USGS The Learning Web: Science info from the U.S. Geological survey http://www.usgs.gov/education
Wisconsin Kids Page: http://www.wisconsin.gov/state/core/kids_page.html
Resources for Educators
: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.orgArtsEdge
AskERIC: http://www.askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons
FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence): http://www.ed.gov/free/what.html
The Gateway to Educational Materials: http://thegateway.org
Virtual Public Library: http://www.vpl-imc.org
In order to view some of the government sites for kids, you may need the following programs installed on your computer. Most of the sites offer links to where the software may be downloaded.
1. Shockwave & Flash Players: available at the
Macromedia site http://www.macromedia.com
2. Adobe Acrobat: displays and prints pdf files, available at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
3. RealPlayer, RealAudio, RealVideo: to play audio and video is available at http://www.real.com
(Collected by Nancy Mulhern, Wisconsin Historical Society Library)
The Booklist Center http://home.attbi.com/~dwtaylor1/index.htm
The web’s largest selection of booklists
currently holding 253 lists in 62 categories including fantasy, biography,
finance, banned books, children’s literature, etc.
(Neat New Stuff I Found This Week: http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html, Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2002)
The Giant Gum Bubble Web Page http://www.dimensional.com/~bkelly/bgpage/
Everything a gum chewer needs to know about
blowing gum bubbles, from best brands, correct temperature, to proper technique
can be found at this site. If you have a favorite bubble picture try submitting
it to the photo gallery hall of fame. There are links to other sites featuring
bubble gum which add to the fun
(Copyright 2002 Librarian’s Index to the Internet, http://lii.org, 7/11/02)
Grant Writing Guides
http://www.npguides.org/
Need grant funds? This site offers a Grant
Writing Guide designed to help you win grant funds for your organization.
Resources include sample grant applications, funding proposals, and budgets.
This guide is designed to assist established, experienced private and public
non-profit organizations and entities. It will not assist individuals,
for-profit businesses, or start-up organizations.
(Education Forum, July 19-22, 2002)
August 12-16 - "ABCs of Working with Children" - J. Friedrick Center, Madison - 8:30-4:30 - $498 - contact Linda Mundt at LEMundt@facstaff.wisc.edu for details.
August 15 - WVLS Executive Committee meeting - Marathon County Public Library - 9:30.
August 22 - Wisconsin Public Library Consortium Steering Committee meeting - Marathon County Public Library - 1:00.
September -
LIBRARY CARD SIGN-UP MONTH
For tips on how to plan for and promote the event, visit the ALA/Public Information Office web page at: http://www.ala.org/librarycard/index.html
September 17 - The New WISCAT & WISCAT ILL Software - a WVLS workshop - Marathon County Public Library - 9:00 a.m. For details, see flyer below.
September 21 - WVLS Board of Trustees meeting - Marathon County Public Library - 9:30.
September 21-28 BANNED BOOKS WEEK. For info from ALA go to http://www.ala.org/bbooks/
October 10-12 - Wisconsin Book Festival, Madison.
October 12 - "Children's Literature Conference" - Marquette University, Milwaukee - $100 - for details, contact Carol Stachewicz at carol.stachewicz@marquette.edu
October 13-19 - DISCOVER WISCONSIN WRITERS WEEK.
October 17 - WVLS Executive Committee meeting - Marathon County Public Library - 3:30.
October 29-November 1 - "Libraries. A Basic Freedom"- WLA Annual Conference, Middleton.
November 17 - The second Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets opens today!
November 18-24 CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK. The theme is "Book Time" and programming fodder may be found at http://www.cbcbooks.org/html/book_week.html
ATTENTION: WESSLER SCHOLARSHIPS are available to cover some/all costs associated with attendance at reference and/or interlibrary loan continuing education events. If interested in becoming a Wessler Scholar, contact the WVLS office (715/261-7250) for more information. The application form and more information are available at http://wvls.lib.wi.us/About/wessler.htm
Sponsored by Wisconsin Valley Library Service
Learn the New WISCAT &
WISCAT ILL Software
Tuesday, September 17, 2002
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Marathon Co.
Public Library's Wausau Room
300 1st Street, Wausau, WI
This workshop is especially important to those libraries in the WVLS area who have not yet participated in a WISCAT training session provided by Reference and Loan Library staff. The Reference and Loan Library has stipulated that libraries must attend a training session before being authorized to participate in WISCAT interlibrary loan activities - either as a borrower or as a lender. Training over the phone will not be available.
9:00 a.m. Coffee and Conversation
9:30 a.m. Searching the New WISCAT - Terry Wilcox, interlibrary loan guru at the Reference and Loan Library, will teach workshop attendees how to:
- search the new WISCAT
- create interlibrary loan requests
- use the new WISCAT interlibrary loan module to manage requests
Noon LUNCH - Enjoy the eateries in downtown Wausau; or, for $6.00, feast on the catered lunch provided by WVLS.
1:00 p.m. WVLS WISCAT User Group Discussion - Question & Answer Session / Review ILL Protocols
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Please respond by Tuesday, September 10th to Marla
Sepnafski at WVLS, 300 1st Street, Wausau, WI 54403
phone: 715.261.7252 / fax: 715.261.7259
Please note: No cows were injured in the making of this web page.
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| EDITOR: Marla Sepnafski Phone: 715/261-7252 FAX: 715/261-7259 |
Contributions are welcome!
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