Walker budget cuts target Wisconsin libraries Materials sharing, Braille service are threatened: “Under Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget, Wisconsin libraries would see their funding requests cut by more than $18.9 million in 2012 alone, threatening a wide variety of services, including those for job-seekers and the blind…Cuts to Wisconsin library budgets come in three areas. State aid to school libraries would be cut by $4.6 million. Funding to the state’s 17 public library systems — such as the South Central Library System, which serves Dane and six other counties — would be cut by $13.5 million, essentially ending materials sharing.”