We are pleased to announce that the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium Board approved the first-ever WPLC Strategic Plan at its February meeting. The plan includes a mission and vision statement and three strategic goals with measurable objectives to guide the consortium’s work over the next three years.
View the WPLC Strategic Plan Document.
Thanks to additional support from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI), the WPLC Data Dashboard access has been extended until June 30, 2025. If you are new the statewide public library data dashboard, the below email announcement shared in September 2024 gives a great overview and links to additional training materials.
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On December 12th Wisconsin's Digital Library (WDL) hit a record breaking 9 million checkouts! In 2023 the WDL had a total of 8.6 million checkouts. The demand for Wisconsin's Digital Library has continued to grow over the past several years, seeing approximately a 13% increase year over year in checkouts and at any given time, approximately 70% of the collection is continuously checked out.
Project managers were able to capture the rollover on the WDL's insights page and the screenshot is below!
