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Resources

  • Dig Deep: Library Trends Resources [pdf]

    21 Mar 2012

    A list of resources for exploring lifetyle and library trends from the fourth of five sessions from the PLA 2012 Preconference, Dig Deep to Understand What Your Community Needs and Wants. Presented by Ivy Library Consultants Catherine Alloway, Director of Schlow Centre Region Library, and Barbara A. Genco, Collection Management Editor for Library Journal.

  • Dig Deep: Benchmarking Resources [pdf]

    21 Mar 2012

    A list of resources for library benchmarking from the third of five sessions from the PLA 2012 Preconference, Dig Deep to Understand What Your Community Needs and Wants. Presented by Catherine Alloway, Director of Schlow Centre Region Library and Ivy Library Consultant.

  • Dig Deep: Sharpen Your Focus [pdf]

    21 Mar 2012

    The last of five sessions from the PLA 2012 Preconference, Dig Deep to Understand What Your Community Needs and Wants. Presented by Marc Futterman, President and CEO of CIVICTechnologies. Focuses on libraries' application of market segmentation for better serving their individual communities.

  • Dig Deep: Trends in Libraries [pdf]

    21 Mar 2012

    The fourth of five sessions from the PLA 2012 Preconference, Dig Deep to Understand What Your Community Needs and Wants. Presented by Ivy Library Consultants Catherine Alloway, Director of Schlow Centre Region Library, and Barbara A. Genco, Collection Management Editor for Library Journal. Provides insight on trending library service offerings and projections for the future.

  • Dig Deep: Benchmarking [pdf]

    21 Mar 2012

    The third of five sessions from the PLA 2012 Preconference, Dig Deep to Understand What Your Community Needs and Wants. Presented by Catherine Alloway, Director of Schlow Centre Region Library and Ivy Library Consultant. Shares useful resources for benchmarking your library against peer institutions.

  • Dig Deep: Information Gathering [pdf]

    21 Mar 2012

    The second of five sessions from the PLA 2012 Preconference, Dig Deep to Understand What Your Community Needs and Wants. Presented by Nancy Davis, Partner of The Ivy Group, Ltd. Covers secondary research and qualitative and quantitative primary research methods for gathering information about your library's staff, trustees, friends, donors, patrons, nonusers, and general community.

  • Dig Deep: Getting Organized [pdf]

    21 Mar 2012

    The first of five sessions from the PLA 2012 Preconference, Dig Deep to Understand What Your Community Needs and Wants. Presented by Pam Fitzgerald, Managing Partner of The Ivy Group, Ltd. Focuses on initial planning and necessary steps for launching a community needs assessment.

  • Trends Talk 2011 [ppt]

    11 Apr 2011

    What’s Now? What’s Wow? What’s New? Ivy Library consultants apply their research of trends in demography, technology, and policy towards a set of recommendations for advancing America’s public libraries.

  • Family Literacy Programs [pdf]

    28 Oct 2010

    Library family literacy programs find themselves presently in an ongoing process of self-definition and discovery. Little has been written about family literacy; most of the research comes from adult basic education or school settings, and these studies do not involve the library.

  • Attracting Non-Readers [pdf]

    28 Oct 2010

    Though print is the medium commonly used for publicizing other library services, written words won't attract non-readers.  Recognizing this dilemma, librarians have used successful and innovation nonprint literacy promotions that have resulted in overwhelming responses.

  • How To Publicize Your Program [pdf]

    28 Oct 2010

    A congregation cools itself on a midsummer Sunday with "I'm a reading fan" fans provided by the local literacy council.  A literacy coordinator goes to clown school so that she can "clown around" with adults about literacy.  A booth celebrating literacy is a regular feature of a town's annual Hog Festival. What have you done lately to publicize your program? 

  • Funding and Grant Writing [pdf]

    28 Oct 2010

    Since the inception of LSCA Title VI Library Literacy [25] years ago, libraries nationwide have been able to apply directly to the U.S. Department of Education for funding to coordinate and to plan library literacy programs; to recruit and to train professional staff and volunteers; and to promote cooperative literacy initiatives between libraries and community groups.


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