Public Services Recognition
In the spirit of Public Services Recognition week, we’d like to thank the many people who use our library. You keep us very busy!
We’d also like to take this opportunity to thank all our staff for a job well done. In addition to the people you see every day when you visit the library, there are many more employees that keep library service running smoothly. Our staff select, order, purchase, catalog, label, deliver, and repair the 1.1 million items in our collection, and we work with libraries throughout the South Central Wisconsin area and beyond to share our materials for your benefit. Other staff keep the sidewalks clean, the bathrooms working, the carpet vacuumed, the books shelved, and the holds filled. Still more staff take programs and resources out into the community, working with other city agencies, nonprofit groups, neighborhood associations, local businesses, and funding sources to share library resources with those learning to read, looking for jobs, or wanting to learn more about practically any subject.
And if a library visit isn’t exciting enough, there’s always the Public Services Recognition event on Wednesday, May 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Join Mayor Dave Cieslewicz at noon on the steps of City Hall, or stop by the first block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. near the Capitol to meet representatives from the Police Department, Fire Department, Metro Transit, and the Streets Department, and some of their equipment.
Public Service Recognition week is a time to help every citizen become more aware of the ways, both direct and indirect, that public services improve the quality of their lives. It is also a chance to highlight our accomplishments, to raise awareness of the good work City employees do every day, and to express appreciation for those efforts. The week offers an opportunity to celebrate the importance of contributions made by Madison’s public servants.
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Geoff Shields of WMTV (NBC 15) and Al Zobel, Kevin Harlan and Steve Zimmerman of WKOW TV (ABC 27) are all part of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Digital TV (DTV) Speakers Bureau, a nationwide public education campaign which aims to ensure that all television viewers will be prepared for the February 2009 transition. Over the next year and a half, the Speakers Bureau will reach about one million people directly at over 8,000 engagements across the country. As part of this consumer education initiative, the WMTV and WKOW TV representatives will present information about the DTV transition to the Madison community at different branches of the Madison Public Library and to other groups across Wisconsin. The DTV Transition programs are scheduled: