Libraries in Wisconsin Institutions [electronic resource] : Status Report / Elizabeth B. Merriam.
The Wisconsin Library Association Round Table of Hospitals and Institutional Librarians became concerned about adequate funding of institutional libraries; the right of institutionalized persons to read and to have educational, legal, and recreational materials; and the development of staff librarie...
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| Language: | English |
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1973.
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| Summary: | The Wisconsin Library Association Round Table of Hospitals and Institutional Librarians became concerned about adequate funding of institutional libraries; the right of institutionalized persons to read and to have educational, legal, and recreational materials; and the development of staff libraries for treatment, rehabilitation, and research purposes. Seeing a need for first having a concrete data base, the librarians sent out questionnaires and collected them from institutions for the mentally ill and retarded; state penal facilities; and county, state, and V.A. hospitals. The results of the survey, to which 52 Wisconsin institutions responded, are gathered in a series of tables covering expenditures; institutional populations; funding, both institutional and by grants; salaries; collections; services; facilities; and staff libraries. From the survey grew a recommendation that the state create a position of coordinator of institutional libraries to help improve services, quality of staffing, and cooperation among institutional libraries. (LS) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED090944. |
| Physical Description: | 65 p. |