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JUDICIAL BRANCH: SERVICE AGENCIES


  Organization: The director of state courts is appointed by , and serves
at the pleasure of, the
Supreme Court. At the direction of the chief justice, the director administers
the nonjudicial
business of the court system through the appointed chief judges and staff.
The director is a mem-
ber of the Judicial Council and the Wisconsin Council on Criminal Justice.
  Functions: The director of state courts keeps the chief justice and the
Supreme Court informed
of the status of judicial business in the state courts and assists in their
administration. The spe-
cific functions of the director, as set out by Supreme Court Rule, are: supervision
of state level
court personnel; development and supervision of the budget for the court
system; legislative
liaison and public information; development and maintenance of the court
information system;
judicial education; interdistrict assignment of active and reserve judges;
development and super-
vision of judicial planning and research; advisor to the Supreme Court on
matters relating to
improvements within the system; control over fiscal matters, space allocation
and equipment;
collection, compilation and utilization of judicial system statistics; supervision
of the Law Li-
brary and the Supreme Court clerk; administration of the medical mediation
panels system
under Chapter 655; and the performance of such other duties as the Supreme
Court may, from
time to time, direct.



                                  STATE LAW LIBRARY
 State Law Librarian: MARCIA J. KoSLOV.
 Reader Services (reference, circulation, government documents): DENNIS AUSTIN,
JANE COLWIN,
   CHERYL O'CONNOR, JANICE PENA.
 Technical Services: LAUREL BECKER, ELAINE SHARP, JULIE TESSMER.
 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 7881, Madison 53707; location: Room 310 East,
State Capitol,
   Madison.
 Telephone: (608) 266-1424 (office); (608) 266-1600 (reader services).
 Number of Employes: 7.00.
 Total Budget 1985-87: $1,078,100.
 Statutory Reference: Section 758.01; Supreme Court Rule 82.01.
   Organization: The State Law Library is administered by the Supreme Court,
which appoints
 the librarian and the library staff and promulgates and enforces rules governing
the use of the
 library.
   Functions: The library is a public library, but its main service is as
the legal resource center for
 the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Department of Justice, the Legislature,
the Office of the Gov-
 ernor and the various executive agencies, and members of the Wisconsin Bar.
    Reference and basic research services are provided and copying facilities
are available at a
 nominal cost. Legal and legal-related database searching is available. Through
a circulation
 policy instituted in 1976, much of the collection is now available on an
overnight or 5-day basis.
 Wisconsin materials are generally noncirculating. Circulation is open to
judges, attorneys, legis-
 lators and state agency personnel.
    Holdings: The State Law Library collection consists of approximately
135,000 bound
 volumes, 3,500 reels of microfilm, and 85,000 microfiche. The holdings include:
    1. Session laws and statutory codes, court reports, administrative rules,
legal indexes and
      digests for the federal government and the 50 states and U.S. territories.
    2. Legal and bar periodicals - 950 titles, of which 650 are current.
    3. Legal treatise and looseleaf collection, legal encyclopedias, and
general legal reference
      materials.
    4. Government documents collection, including U.S. Statutes at Large,
U.S. Code, Congres-
       sional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S.
Congressional bills,
       reports and hearings and various federal agency reports and administrative
decisions.
    5. Appeal papers including cases, briefs, and appendices for almost all
Wisconsin Supreme
       Court cases and for the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.