page_title: Marathon County Public Library
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Marathon County Public Library / Overview
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of Marathon County Library. The post card is not available to the public anymore. This is the only representation of the building from this time period.
context_page_description: The Marathon County Public Library is a consolidated county library with nine locations in Marathon County, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Its headquarters are in Wausau. The library has its origins in the Wausau Free Public Library, which was founded in April 1907 and later became the site of the consolidated library system.
context_section_description: The Marathon County Public Library system headquarters, sometimes called simply the "Wausau library," is located at 300 North First Street in Wausau. MCPL has branches in Athens, Edgar, Hatley, Marathon, Mosinee, Rothschild, Spencer, and Stratford. As of 2012, it served a population of 134,735, with more than 75,000 active library card-holders in Marathon County alone. Its collection contains 313,008 books, 29,703 audio and video materials, 607 magazine and newspaper titles in print, access to thousands of magazines and newspapers electronically, and 247 art prints.
  The Marathon County Public Library operates in cooperation with the Wisconsin Valley Library Service (WVLS), a state library system of 26 public libraries and 212 non-public libraries.
caption: Wausau Free Public Library upon opening in 1907[2]
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