S8
Open Space - 2:30 - 4:30 pm Exploring Library Interests and Issues
John Barton, Vice President, Advocacy, BCLTA and Sally Gibson , First Vice
President, Education BCLTA, will facilitate this highly participative workshop.
This session is designed to create space for participants to bring forward
their interests and issues. Participants will engage in a brainstorming
process that will include round table discussions and feedback reporting.
BCLTA Directors will be on hand to assist with round table discussions and
reporting. Here is your chance to meet fellow participants, engage in lively
discussion, share your wisdom and define best practices. We look forward
to meeting you at the open space!
CONVENOR - Doug Edgar, Secretary Treasurer, BCLTA
Board
Related Issues*
Discussion threads:
getting library
on agenda of council
down-loading or
withdrawal of services by government: what's next?
rescuing other
collections from closed libraries, e.g. law library from closed courthouse,
medical library from closed hospital
multi-ethnic involvement
on the library board
co-operating with
other library systems to achieve efficiencies
ways to get board
members up to speed on library issues
resisting the push
for user fees
limits of time
available for board discussion
provincial standards
staff identification
personality differences
- conflict
management style
- curse or salvation
Sunday opening
* not discussed
Open
Space Discussion Group Summary
Discussion ideas:
Identify some successful strategies for getting money from Regional
Districts?
List fund raising ideas.
List private funding ideas.
Why don't people donate?
What should we do with fundraising funds: operating or capital projects?
Educate funding bodies as to the role of the library and its needs.
Will the government change our funding?
Funding (grants), are they secure.
Should libraries be tax supported?
After great discussion,
three tips regarding funding include:
diversify sources
focus energies
Prioritize goals
Ideas for fund
raising:
Chocolate Jazz
Silent Auction
Golf Tournament
Dessert Theatre
Five Theatre
Groups
Readings
Book Sales
Bake-less Bake
Sale
Books 'n Beer
Professional Writer
& Local Beer
$25. per ticket;
two tastes
Hire a person (professional)
to lobby
Partnerships in
the community, i.e. Lions Club, Rotary etc.
Radio Station:
golf tournament for the 3 libraries in the Ski to Sea area.
Local Club "Trivia
Night"
Use fundraising
as a tool for awareness that the community values the library
Adopt a Book
Friends of the
Library
Libraries
in the Community and Relations with Councils
After great discussion,
suggestions for building relations with Councils includes:
get passionate,
face-to-face
follow-up letters
with personal visits
go to council,
talk about library
let council know
where the money is going and how much bang they're getting for their
buck
get an interview
with the newspaper (local)
marketing the library
get libraries agenda
on the political agenda at election time and make it an issue
trustee should
listen to community needs vis a vis the library
form relationship
with other life long learning institutions
communicate with
council about use of schools, class visits to the library
Future
Directions of Libraries - Visioning
Discussion included:
Growth in Children's
Services
Getting to Mothers
and kids
New Teens Program
- sleepovers; Rocking in the Racks
Teens as Reading
Bodies - $20,000 Starbucks
Summer Book Club
Red Cedar Readers
More Programs =>Success
Publication of
electronic books vs. traditional books
