By Kris Leonhardt
WISCONSIN RAPIDS – After three years of planning, work on McMillan Memorial Library’s Learning Futures project is underway.
“We did a lot of looking at what other libraries were doing. We looked at what Mid-State had done in their long-range plan. We looked at what Incourage did in their planning process, which was really quite extensive,” recalled McMillan Library Director Andy Barnett.
“We looked at what the chamber listed as major needs. We looked at what United Way said were major needs, and we said, ‘Okay, what parts of those fit in with what we do – lifelong learning?’ I mean, we are not the schools; we are not Mid-State. But, there are definitely pieces of that that fit right into life-long learning; whether it’s for kids during the summer, extra-curricular activities.
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