Library Trustees

Trustee Training Materials

•Trustee Training Overview
    --Part 1: General Strategy for Orienting New Trustees
    --Part 2: Sample Outline for New Trustee Orientation
    --Part 3: Materials 

•Top Ten Action List for Trustees

•Basic Resources for Public Library Trustees

•Library Acronyms

•Wisconsin Library Law: Chapter 43, Outline

•Wisconsin Library Law: Chapter 43, Summaries of Sections

•“Non-Local Borrowing” and Wisconsin State Law

•Places to Advertise Library Positions

•SCLS Fact Sheet: What does SCLS Provide to Its Member Libraries?

General Resources

• Trustee Update

•Wisconsin Library Trustee Resource Page (from DPI)

•"Trustee Trouble" (from Wyoming State Library)

[Note: "Trustee Trouble" is specific to Wyoming, and a county library system; however much of the information is applicable to Wisconsin.  It is also available also available on DVD in the SCLS Professional Collection, or contact Mark Ibach to make you a copy.]

•Wisconsin Library Association membership
[Note: SCLS will pay for WLA membership for SCLS member public library trustees.  Contact Heidi Moe for more information.]

Other SCLS topics of interest

•System Celebration

•Library Law

Page created 05/04.
Page updated 11/08.