LSTA TWO-YEAR WORKSHOP SERIES

 

LIBRARY: Place, Service, or Both?

 

SCRLC is delighted to announce our new two-year workshop series, Library: Place, Service, or Both? To assure continued relevancy and meet user needs, libraries must rethink and transform many traditional spaces and services.  As more information resources are in electronic form and more services are provided electronically, is the library as space still important? Users are still coming in the doors in droves - is it the collection, the coffee, the help they get that brings them?

 

Library: Place, Service, or Both? invites library staff to assess, identify, and implement strategies that will serve their current and future patrons.  Subsequent workshops will focus on the specific services, spaces, and staffing solutions that will meet both patron needs and those of the library. Flexible spaces, effective remote services, outreach (human as well as online), new funding streams, enhanced security solutions, and many other topics will bring expert presenters and authors to the South Central Regional Library Council area.

 

For further details and registration information please visit the SCRLC website at

www.lakenet.org/scrlc/calendar.html or subscribe to our listserv, SCRLC-L for notification of all of our upcoming events.

 

Recreating Services with New Technologies – Dysart & Abram

May 13, 2005    Broome County Public Library (BCPL), Binghamton

Managing Organizational Transitions:

Getting Your People from Here to There Susan Currie & Linda Bryan

June 16, 2005    Holiday Inn-Downtown Ithaca

How to Assess Patron Needs and ServicesSara Laughlin

Sept. 15, 2005  Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL), Ithaca

Project Management:

Keeping it All On Track to the Finish LineKaren Calhoun

October 7, 2005     Steele Memorial Library, Elmira

Other series topics will include

·          Issues in Library Building and Remodeling

·          What's New and What Works in the Information Commons

·          Federated Searching - From vendors, users, and libraries

·          Library Funding Issues

·          New Security Tools & Issues – RFID, biometrics, wireless, …

·          Outreach Librarianship – Virtual reference, informationalists, faculty partners

·          Libraries Without Walls or Books! – Distance learning and support

 

This training is funded in part by Federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds, awarded to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

 

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