The South Branch Library, a publicly funded and managed library and an affiliate library under the La Crosse Public Library, serves more than fifty thousand residents in La Crosse, a city on the Mississippi River, in western Wisconsin. The library circulates almost 19,000 items for the year 2020, which contributes to the overall collection and services of the La Crosse Public Library, which maintains almost 190,000 volumes and circulates more than one million items per year.