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Creating the environment within your library, and within your library culture, that makes every single community member feel as though the library is their place, best suited to serve their community. When we library people work to translate abstract values into action, we sometimes lose our way. At this summer’s STLS Trustee Retreat, internationally recognized speaker,
What is OverDrive? OverDrive is a free service offered by your library that lets you borrow digital content (like eBooks and audiobooks) anytime, anywhere. All you need to get started is an internet connection, a library card, and your pin. Download the OverDrive app from your device’s app store. Available on: Android (including NOOK and
What is RBdigital? RBdigital Magazines, the world’s largest newsstand, offers full-color digital magazines for anytime, anywhere reading on desktops, mobile devices, and apps. Your library’s collection of popular digital magazines includes both new and backlist titles with no holds, no checkout periods, and no limits. Two ways to read: Check out magazines and read them
The New York State fiscal year 2018-2019 has passed with a bonded allocation of $34 million to fund public library construction across the state. For our membership, this means a nearly 45% increase in our local funding allocation, allowing us to provide more than $880,000 in assistance to member library projects. Have a project you’d
By show of hands, how many of you have made a joke about the public comment period of your board meetings? In the past month, I’ve personally heard at least two. It’s the easy joke we tell because we all know it is uncomfortable to be either caught unawares by the uncontrollable will of the
Evaluating the performance of your director can be either disastrous or positively impactful for the library. We’ll cover some practices that can help make the process meaningful and helpful to the sustainability of the library program. To start, your library would ideally have either or both a long range plan and a strategic plan in
You have found the new leader of the library. The Chief Executive Officer who will implement the mission and vision of the library organization through their operational practices. Or at least, we all hope they will. The most impactful thing you can do as the collective supervisory body over this new leader, is to support
You call a candidate and invite them to an interview. Every contact you make with that candidate, is an opportunity for both of you to gauge if this relationship is going to work. Every candidate is interviewing your library as well, and how you do will lay the foundation for long term retention, or sudden
All libraries face issues of recruitment, retention, and evaluation. This Trustee Tuesday mini-series will deal with the major barriers to library trustees fulfilling their role as supervisor of a qualified director. Your director is leaving? Your director has left? Disruption is not easy for any organization, and unexpected disruption in leadership can set a
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