MERCER, Wis. -- A  mountain village lights up the Mercer Public Library for the holidays. Light shines warmly from small buildings, a skier glides down a hill and skaters circle a frozen pond in the busy Northwoods village.

Sandy Leidenheimer loaned the village to the library, where Friend of the Library Judy Bugni does the decorating. Pat Pape, Judy Ivey and Renie Lawrence helped set up the decorations. Bugni, who volunteers at the library on Saturdays and when staff are on vacation, asked Leidenheimer to leave the village up through the winter.

As word of the village has spread through town, the decorations have drawn people to the library, according to Bugni.

"Some people have stopped over that have never been in the library," she said Monday. "When they walk in the library, they don't see it. They go into the reading room. When they come back to the main desk, all of a sudden, they spy it."