Connecting your library Library workers at all levels look to their library cooperative as a primary source of support and guidance. Cooperative staff are seen as a trusted advisors; sometimes the cooperative director is known as the “librarian’s librarian.”
Based in Albion, Michigan, the Woodlands Library Cooperative serves 50 public libraries located across thirteen counties in Southern Lower Michigan.
Governed by a nine-member appointed board , Woodlands facilitates the provision of electronic and physical resource sharing, continuing education and training for library workers and library boards. We ensure our member libraries are represented through our strategic partnerships, collaborations with colleagues on the regional, state, and national level. Woodlands advocates for libraries of all types, leads strategic planning and more for public libraries, the people that work in them, and the nearly 826,00