The Wisconsin Public Library Consortium (WPLC) was formed in 2001.
Information about board and committee meetings, policies, and decision-making.
Charge All official business of the WPLC is conducted by the WPLC Board. The WPLC Board meets no less than quarterly. The Board consists of one voting representative from each of the WPLC Partners. Please address concerns to your representative. 2025 Members Wisconsin Valley: Marla Sepnafski Bridges: Mellanie Mercier IFLS: Katelyn Dubiel Kenosha: Kristi Helmkamp…
BUDGET The WPLC Budget runs through a January – December fiscal year. The Board prepares and reviews the budget in the spring of each year for the following year. They approve the following year’s budget annually at their meeting in June. BYLAWS WPLC Bylaws are reviewed and updated by a subcommittee of the Board every…
Charge A Budget Committee convenes every other year to develop the upcoming two year’s budgets for WPLC. The group is a committee of the Board and presents a budget to the Board in early May. The Board determines the operating expenditures for the following years and utilizes the recommendations of the Digital Library Steering Committee…
Charge This group is formed every other year to evaluate the composition of Wisconsin’s Digital Library collection purchased by the digital buying pool with particular attention on known concerns and potential additions to the collection. Specifically, the committee will: Solicit feedback from the community regarding the collection. Create recommendations related to the collection. Review and…
Charge The WPLC Communications Committee is composed of one WPLC Board member, representatives from the Digital Library and Technology Steering Committees, a Library Director, a Public Library Marketing Cohort representative, and a DPI representative. The Committee meets quarterly and is charged with: Increasing member library awareness of and engagement with the services the WPLC supports….
Charge The WPLC Delivery Workgroup makes budget and policy recommendations related to statewide intersystem delivery service to the WPLC Board for formal approval. The Workgroup makes all decisions relating to the day-to-day operations of delivery including: Coordinating communication and oversight of daily statewide service between systems, both within different regions and statewide Continuous service improvement…
Charge The Digital Archives Backup Collaboration Workgroup will provide project expertise and make recommendations to the Technology Steering Committee on project budget needs and governance structure for the digital archives backup collaboration project. The digital archives backup and storage platform will safely store archival copies of digitized materials and metadata from public libraries from any…
Charge The WPLC Digital Library Marketing Committee, under direction of the WPLC Board, maintains and provides content for the social media presence for Wisconsin’s Digital Library, sharing information about OverDrive and any other products that may be added to the library, including collection updates, genre- or audience-level title highlights, new or interesting curations, outages or…
Charge The Digital Library Steering Committee is comprised of one or more representatives from each public library system with a total of no more than twenty five members. The Digital Library Steering Committee makes budget and policy recommendations related to Wisconsin’s Digital Library to the WPLC Board for formal approval, makes all decisions relating to…
