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Elm Grove is a village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 6,524 at the 2020 census . Elm Grove was named as America's best suburb by Business Insider in October 2014.
The system was established under Wisconsin Statute 43.15 by action of the Waukesha County Board of Supervisors in January 1981 as the Waukesha County Federated Library System. [1] The system transitioned to a two-county system on January 1, 2016, when Jefferson County joined and the name was changed to Bridges Library System. [ 2 ]
The Portage County Public Library (PCPL) consists of four branch locations primarily serving the population of Portage County in central Wisconsin. The Main branch public library is located in downtown Stevens Point, WI. The other branches are located in Plover, Almond, and Rosholt. The PCPL is a member of the South Central Library System (SCLS ...
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South Central Library System counties (in red) The South Central Library System (SCLS) is a consortium of 53 public libraries in 7 Wisconsin counties: Adams, Columbia, Dane, Green, Portage, Sauk, and Wood. The mission of the South Central Library System is " to help its member libraries provide the best possible service to the public." [1]
The first library in Wausau was formed in 1871 by the Pine Knot Literary Society, a men's literary club. [5] The club had more than 700 books, some purchased and others donated by club members. [5] The library was kept in the offices of the Wisconsin River Pilot newspaper.
The T.B. Scott Free Library is a member of the Wisconsin Valley Library Service (WVLS), a library system made up of 26 public libraries and 212 non-public libraries across seven counties in north-central Wisconsin. In 2017, the library's circulation was 46% to city residents and 47% to county residents. [5] The library has won the Library of ...
The group rented space for its library in a number of locations over the years and expanded into sponsoring a lecture series with such important speakers as Horace Mann, Horace Greeley and Ralph Waldo Emerson. [2] In 1878, the city-sponsored library began when the state legislature authorized Milwaukee to establish a public library.