Friday Follow-up: a message from Brian M. Hildreth, STLS Executive Director Your Only Action as Library Leader 2016 was a great year for library funding •4.3% increase in State Aid to member libraries •$130,376 increase in STLS Construction Aid to member libraries •$202,000 increase in Bullet Aid to member libraries •Lowest Cost
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Friday Follow-up: a message from Brian M. Hildreth, STLS Executive Director Atlanta’s Director Built a Place for People to Come Together Brenda Yeoman, director at Atlanta’s library, delivers welcoming remarks during a 2010 Open House event at E.J. Cottrell Library. Brenda retired last month after 15-years of service. “Walking into the Atlanta library is something special. Immediately you feel
Friday Follow-up: a message from Brian M. Hildreth, STLS Executive Director STLS Trustee Bonnie Weber Goes the Added Mile (L-R) Denise King, STLS board president presents Bonnie Weber, outgoing 2 term STLS trustee, with a service award at this past Tuesday’s STLS Board Meeting. Bonnie has served STLS in many capacities since 2007, which includes the introduction of
During last month’s NYLA conference I sat in on a presentation about building effective teams. The presentation was conducted by Ron Kirsop, Assistant Director, Pioneer Library System. I would like to share some points from his presentation. Dysfunctional Teams Common traits attributed to dysfunctional team members include a lack of trust, an avoidance of conflict, struggle
Friday Follow-up: a message from Brian M. Hildreth, STLS Executive Director Directors Lay Groundwork for 2017 & 2018 (L-R) Angela Gonzalez, Nic Gunning and Carol Berry discuss the idea of a director mentorship program along with STLS’ capabilities to serve as a resource clearing house. How can members share resources without inventing something that already exists? I have
Friday Follow-up: a message from Brian M. Hildreth, STLS Executive Director Member Insight with Keturah Cappadonia Keturah Cappadonia has been with the David A. Howe Public Library (Wellsville, Allegany County) since 2015. She has had some great impacts in a very short time. Below you find a summary of our conversations. What do you discuss
Friday Follow-up: a message from Brian M. Hildreth, STLS Executive Director Avoca, Howard & Fillmore Libraries Embrace Complex Relationships I was a 25-year-old library director when I attended my first board meeting. I was green as the July grass and extremely intimidated. The situation was new for me. I had four years of academic
For those of you who were unable to attend Camille Andrew’s program on library space design at the STLS Annual Meeting, I thought I would provide some information from her presentation. User Study Methods Camille discussed various methods for getting feedback from patrons on your library space. One idea was to have individuals provide a sketch
Friday Follow-up: a message from Brian M. Hildreth, STLS Executive Director Member Uniqueness is Our Strength Rural library systems help to address issues of equity by leveling the playing field for libraries of all sizes. However, one of our greatest strengths resides in the uniqueness of our member libraries. “Equitable library services stem from library
Friday Follow-up: a weekly message from Brian M. Hildreth, STLS Executive Director Filomena Jack – Capturing the Human Spirit Filomena Jack (left) works with Carrie Jefferds of Belmont Library at an EXCEL digitial literacy training this past year. Today is Filomena’s last day at STLS. We wish her the very best! Wow! What
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