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Dwight Foster Public Library
The Dwight Foster Public Library is located in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, in the United States. Established in 1892, it serves the 12,368 Fort Atkinson residents, as well as residents from surrounding communities. The total service population was 19,095 in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://dpi.wi.gov/pld/pdf/10publib.pdf )〕 The library serves as the resource library for Jefferson County〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://jeffersoncountylibraryservice.wordpress.com )〕 and is a member of the Mid-Wisconsin Federated Library System (MWFLS) and is in the SHARE consortium, which shares materials with 42 other public and school libraries throughout Dodge, Jefferson, Racine, Walworth and Washington counties in southeastern Wisconsin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mwfls.org )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.sharelibraries.info/index.htm )〕
== Early history ==
In Fort Atkinson, two local women's clubs were endeavoring to establish a free public library for their city. One was the Tuesday Club, founded in 1881, by sixteen members. It was a women's study club that met weekly, at which time a member would present a topic for discussion such as a book review, or a paper on Italy, France, England or other countries. As there was no library in Fort Atkinson, books for study were procured from the State Historical Library in Madison. Finding what a necessity a library was, after some years of this inconvenience, they were determined to have one in Fort Atkinson. They began discussing the possibility of establishing a library with city leaders.
The subject of the possibility of establishing a local public library and reading room was also discussed at a meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union on November 4, 1889. On March 10, 1890, the twenty-one ladies present pledged to raise $100 in 1890 to help fund a new library. At the W.C.T.U. meeting on December 7, 1891, Mrs. W. H. Rogers, president of the society, acted as chairman and appointed a committee to petition the city council to ask the voters to appropriate $500 for a free public library.
On January 4, 1892, the city voted to authorize an expenditure of $500 for library purposes, but later the city council discovered they could not release the funds because there was no money left in the city treasury. In frustration, on January 12, 1892, at a meeting of the W.C.T.U., a committee of ladies was appointed to raise the $500. The W.C.TU. donated $100 and in a few months the $500 was promised on paper. By May 21, 1892, they had raised $80 by putting on cost suppers, $20 by donations and $400 by pledges that they collected. On May 25, 1892. The city agreed to donate the money for equipment and maintenance and the city's public library was officially born.
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