WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK 1985-1986


    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 patients compensation
panels 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.
 Technical Services: ELAINE SHARP, JULIE TESSMER.
 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 7881, Madison 53707; location: Room 310 East,
State Capitol.
 Telephone: (608) 266-1424 (office); (608) 266-1600 (reader services).
 Number of Employes: 6.00.
 Total Budget 1983-85: $679,100.
 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
libi'ary.
   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 photocopying facilities
are available at
a nominal cost. Through a circulation policy instituted in 1976, much of
the collection is now
available on an overnight or 5-day basis. The Wisconsin materials are generally
noncirculating.
Circulation is open to judges, attorneys, legislators and state agency personnel.
  Holdings: The State Law Library collection consists of approximately 135,000
bound
volumes, 3,500 reels of microfilm, and 80,000 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 territories.
  2. Legal and bar periodicals - 950 titles, of which 520 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.


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