Media Inquiries: 
To learn more about key issues, events, promotions, and general information at libraries in Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, Pierce, Polk, Price, Rusk, and St. Croix counties, contact Kathy O'Leary, IFLS Public Relations, at 715-839-5082, ext. 18 or oleary@ifls.lib.wi.us.
To discuss key issues facing America’s libraries and librarians and to talk to an American Library Association (ALA) spokesperson, contact Macey Morales, Manager of Media Relations, at 312-280-4393, or mmorales@ala.org.
News Releases
Press Kits
Kids! @ your library® (ALA)
Kids! @ your library® is a new national effort to raise awareness of all the free resources available for children and families and encourage all parents to ring their school-age children to their public libraries. Numerous studies show that access to books and magazines is directly related to higher reading achievement.
Public Library Funding and Technology Access Study Press Kit (ALA)
The "Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2006-2007," is a three-year project that builds on the longest-running and largest study of Internet connectivity in public libraries. The study assess public access to computers, the Internet and Internet-related services in U.S. public libraries, as well as the impact of library funding changes on connectivity, technology deployment and sustainability.
The project is made possible by a generous donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the American Library Association.