Be Prepared: Sustaining Your Library
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Technology Planning Summer Camp 2 Nebraska Library Commission August & September 2012
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Be Prepared: Sustaining Your Library
- 1. Be Prepared: Sustaining Your Library A Campfire Discussion Richard Miller Technology Planning Summer Camp 2: Don’t Just Survive, Thrive!
- 2. Elements that may help you sustain the gains made for your library • Adequate local budget to replace hardware/software • Ongoing examination of community technology needs • Cooperative technology goal setting with local elected officials • Development of public and private funding sources
- 3. The Real Questions • What is likely to work in my community? • What can I learn from others who have faced the same or similar issue? • What are some resources that can help me in these efforts?
- 4. Here’s where the Campfire Café discussion comes in • You are all seated at table of five or so people. • This is your Campfire Café. Using the World Café techniques, you’ll have 15 minutes to discuss one question among you. • At the end of 15 minutes, we will signal for you to move to a new table with different people. • You will have a second conversation. • Then we’ll wrap up and do some reporting.
- 5. THE QUESTION How can a community ensure that it will provide adequate, ongoing support for the library’s technology, without getting into a “boom and bust” situation in which the library has to scramble for grants or extraordinary sources of funding for this purpose?