Outreach Services - schools, teachers, businessess, handicapped, assisted living, nursing homes
- Fall River High School - deposit collections
Teachers and Homeschoolers
Resources
- Homeschooling in Wisconsin
- FISH Home Education Network: Wisconsin Requirements for Homeschoolers
- Wisconsin Parents Association
- Colleges That Admit Homeschoolers
- Resources for Learning from the American Museum of Natural History
Teacher Collection
Need materials for your lesson plans? Contact Susan Watters for details about teacher collections. By working together we can help your students succeed. Service is limited to Columbus and Fall River schools.
Tours
Shedule tours 2 weeks in advance. It's important to call the library to make sure your visit does not conflict with another group visit, events, meetings or library programs.
Library cards for students are issued in accordance with our Circulation Policy.
If you have any questions or would like to schedule a visit, call the Children's Department at (920) 623-5926.
Businesses
Check out the meeting room policy and others by going to policies. Meeting space form to send in by e-mail.
If you have a waiting room BookPage, a publication full of book reviews, is mailed to your buisness at no charge to you to put out for your customers once a month.
Coming soon is our new Books for Businesses program! Look for the announcement.
For more information contact Peggy Kindschi, Library Director (623-5910).
Business Databases
- Business Databases from EBSCOhost (BadgerLink—searches Business Source Premier, GreenFILE, Military & Government Collection, Newspaper Source Plus and Regional Business News)
- netLibrary
- ReferenceUSA (discontinued)
Entrepreneur.com
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Fee based document delivery.
Handicapped accessibility @ your library
- Handicapped parking in front of the entry and also across the street in the city parking lot
- Handicapped accessible facility
- Magnifying glasses
- ZOOM TEXT, large print keyboard and track ball available
Mail Service for the blind, deaf, reading disabled, visually and/or physically handicapped
Please call 623-5910 for an application or call to talk to Patti England.
Who is eligible for mail service?
- Blind: Visual acuity of 20/20 or less in the better eye with correcting glasses or the widest diameter of visual field subtending an angular distance no greater than 20 degrees.
- Moderate hearing impairment: Some difficulty hearing and understanding speech.
- Physical Handicap: Unable to hold a book or turn pages as a result of physical limitations. Examples include: without arms or the use of arms; impaired or weakened muscle and nerve control; limitations resulting from strokes, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, polio, arthritis, or similar conditions; and individuals who are homebound due to illness or injury.
- Profound hearing impairment: Cannot hear or understand speech.
- Reading disability: Organic dysfunction of sufficient severity to prevent reading printed materials in a normal manner.
- Visual handicap: Lacks visual acuity to read standard printed materials without special aids or devices other than regular glasses.