You Are A Lobbyist

February 22nd is "Library Legislative Day" down in Madison. Librarians, library professionals and library supporters from all over Wisconsin will be meeting with legislators and making the case that libraries are a worthwhile funding priority when decisions have to be made with public money.

If you use the library and believe in the public library as an institution, contact your state representative(s) some time this month and ask them to keep public libraries thriving as best they can. Let them know that libraries generate wealth in many ways, and not just from the continuous business they do with private employers in the state of Wisconsin and elsewhere. Let your legislators know that libraries provide a raw material--information--which is the ore from which intellect, progress, invention and success are mined, in turn. Tell them that in an economy such as this one, the library is more important than ever.

And tell them the Chippewa Falls Public Library and the Indianhead Federated Library System sent you.