Wisconsin Statutes Cultural Institutions (Ch. 42 to 44) § 43.001. Legislative findings and declaration of policy

(a) The importance of free access to knowledge, information and diversity of ideas by all residents of this state;

(b) The critical role played by public, school, special and academic libraries in providing that access;

(c) The major educational, cultural and economic asset that is represented in the collective knowledge and information resources of the state's libraries;

(d) The importance of public libraries to the democratic process; and

(e) That the most effective use of library resources in this state can occur only through interlibrary cooperation among all types of libraries and the effective use of technology.