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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Do Hennen, LJ Ratings and Other Scores Tell the Truth? Nancy Davis evaluates benchmarking tools, examines appropriate applications, and looks at case studies.
Presented to the New England Library Association 2011 Annual Conference; Burlington, Vermont
Powerpoint presentation for the 2011 New Jersey State Library Association Annual Conference. Reviews best practices and tips on planning for your library's future.
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.
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.
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.
The suspicion lurks in the hearts of event the most video-friendly librarian: television is a pernicious evil leading to the decline of literacy in our nation. Yet video can do it all.
Library professional increasingly turn to large corporation both as funding sources and as partners in literacy ventures. The smarts ones will also take some of business' marketing tips as well.
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?
Why family literacy? Why libraries?
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.