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footnotes
Volume 25, Number 5
May 2016
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Academy Talk to Feature Water Resources
The Mead Public Library Foundation will host a guest speaker from the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters on Tuesday, May 17, in the library's Rocca Meeting Room from 7 to 8:30 p.m. A reception will be held in The Loft on the third floor beginning at 6 p.m.
Every day we draw upon the waters of Wisconsin for our sustenance and housekeeping, in our work and our play, as a source of health, prosperity, and inspiration. Flowing through our remote wild lands, our farms and forests, our small towns and suburbs, as well as our cities, water connects us. Wisconsin has a long tradition of careful stewardship of our waters, but we find ourselves facing long-standing challenges and emerging threats to our water resources and aquatic ecosystems. The state of our waters reflects our sense of shared responsibility for their health.  Curt Meine, Senior Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Foundation, will lead us in a critical discussion of how we are to sustain the waters that sustain us.
Fifteen years ago the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters convened a wide range of water users, scientists, managers, advocates, and policy-makers from across Wisconsin to examine the state of our waters and to recommend actions for improved long-term water stewardship. The Wisconsin Academy's Waters of Wisconsin initiative continues to bring people of varied interests together to focus, not just on the many discrete water issues we must deal with, but with the "big picture" of water in Wisconsin. How can we address our serious water issues before they become crises? How can we align our responses to the reality of the way water works in our landscapes? How can we do so in a time of diminished governmental resources? What emerging needs and opportunities do we have in our efforts to replenish and restore our waters? What can we do in our communities to be effective water stewards? The answers to these and other questions depend on a combination of scientific understanding, coordinated policies, ethical considerations, and practical actions. Even as we wrestle with our immediate water concerns in Wisconsin and beyond, Meine argues that, to sustain our Wisconsin waters for future generations and for all that depends upon them, we can and must develop a comprehensive approach to water stewardship.
Free to the public with advance registration recommended, this special talk is presented by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters in partnership with Mead Public Library with support from Wisconsin Public Radio. Reception: Please join us for some light refreshment and discussion from 6 to 7p.m. prior to Curt Meine's talk. The reception will be in The Loft on the 3rd floor of Mead Public Library. The lecture and discussion will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Rocca Meeting Room on the 1st floor of the library.
If you have any questions or want to modify your registration, please contact Aaron Fai at afai@wisconsinacademy.org or 608-263-1692 ext. 14. (water photo credit: Curt Meine)
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Hands-on Fun & Learning at Sheboygan Connects
Mead Library held its second Sheboygan Connects event on April 16 with lots of hands-on fun and learning. Thank you to the Mead Public Library Foundation and the Friends of Mead Public Library for funding the event!
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Wii Gaming Drop-in for grades 2-6.
Read to "Faith," the Therapy Dog 
"Make It @ Mead" drop-in, supplies provided.
The Book to Art Club