1. Planning & Partnerships:
Strategic Initiatives

2. Talking Points
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• A bit about Olin
• What is a partnership?
• Why partner?
• Case in External Advisory Board
• Case in Vendor partnering
• Corporate - Academic
• Case in Collection development
• Staff possibilities
• Cases in Technology
• What is success?
• Lessons learned
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3. Computers in Libraries
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4. Olin’s Library
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• Philosophy
• Access
• Service
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5. What is a Partnership?
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Vendors Customers
Internal
Partners
Other
Centers
Info
Center

6. Why Partner?
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• Global mindset
• Think strategically
• Innovate

7. Creating a Station
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Alosh Bennett

8. Case in External Library Advisory Board
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Ken Bosma
• What was the
goal of my board?
• What groups did I
want to consider?
• What value
would each group
bring?

9. Creating THE LIST & Recruiting
• Considerations:
– Geography
– Diversity of
representation
– Existing relationships
– New relationships
– Balance of expertise
– Win-win relationship
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James Montgomery Flagg

10. First Meeting
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cara fealy choate
Plan
• Purpose
• Agenda
• Date
• Time
• Space
Binders
• Strategic
plan
• Members
• Biographies
• Background
questions
• Directions
Logistics
• Food
• Presentation
• Internal
guests
• Note taker
• Name tags
& tents

11. Meeting Content
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• Players introduce
themselves
• Plan for the day
• Olin presentation
Introductions
• Strategic plan
• Other questions,
such as faculty
research support
Discussions
• Gather feedback
throughout
discussions and
during lunch
• A good scribe helps
Feedback

12. Beyond the 1st Meeting
• Agenda of current topics
– Partnerships
– Circling back to the strategic plan in our new
financial climate
• Each meeting
– Update of library initiatives
– Any campus or external events that impact library
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13. Impact
Administrative
Impact
Network of
Experts
Wisdom of
Group
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14. Value of Board
Outside of Meetings
• Where the Network of
Experts Shine
– Copyright advice
– Strategic plan meets a
new budgeting
environment
– Running a large
marketing event
– One good link leads to
another
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Ian Burt

15. Case in Vendor Partnering
• Vendors as Partners
– Think win-win
– Training
– Prizes and materials
– Snacks during finals
– Industry advice &
mentoring roles
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16. Library Vendor Fair: Planning
Timeline
Players
Budget
Communicate!
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Set your goal, and then…

17. Library Vendor Fair: Execution
2 Weeks
Before
Day
Before
Day Of
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18. Library Vendor Fair:
Comments I
• Students answering raffle question
“What did you learn?”:
– We have access to a lot of online resources!
– Where/how to do my research.
– I learned how to customize my search windows.
– E-book note taking – pretty nifty!
– That our library is the most awesome ever! So
many resources, so little time!
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19. Library Vendor Fair:
Comments II
• Vendor feedback:
– “I very much enjoyed the experience at Olin’s vendor day
and we would certainly love to participate again next
year. What was particularly interesting from my stand-point,
was the students’ reaction to our technology...” Credo
– “It was great to get a chance to meet with students, faculty,
and staff.” Elsevier
– “We had great foot traffic and the students asked thoughtful
questions and really showed interest in our resources. I was
really glad to be able to speak with them.” Thomson Reuters
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20. Corporate - Academic
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Olin & Analog Devices
Flow of
Customers
Mentoring
& Lifelong
Learning
Projects &
Internships

21. Local Partner Possibilities
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• Babson-Olin-Wellesley
• Complimentary
Curriculum & Distance
• Cultures and Sizes
• History
• Presidents & Moving
Forward

22. Partnership Journey
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James Jordan
• Five Colleges
• Tri-College
• Claremont
• Colby-Bates-Bowdoin
• 2CUL
• Partner Spectrum

23. Case in Collection Development
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24. Staff Possibilities
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• Liaisons / Subject
Experts
• Embedded Librarians
• Technical Services
• Library IT Expertise
• Staff Development

25. Cases in Technology
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• ILS Systems, Skins and the
like
• Institutional Repositories
• Shared Databases
• Wikis, Blogs
• Chat, Twitter
• Subject Guides
• Mobile

26. What is Success?
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Mission / Vision / Goals

27. Lessons Learned
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• The tent
• Communicate,
communicate,
communicate
• Time
• Outside organizations
can be useful
• Grants are good

28. Resources I
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• 2CUL: http://www.2cul.org/
• Claremont University Consortium:
http://www.cuc.claremont.edu/
• Colby, Bates & Bowdoin: http://www2.cbbnet.org/
• Five Colleges: http://www.fivecolleges.edu/
• Tri-College background:
http://www.oberlingroup.org/files/CCD_Projects_P
ennsylvania.pdf
• Tri-College site: http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/trico/

29. Resources II
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30. A Special Thanks To
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Creative Commons
On Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

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