PLA Blog – Planning for Results Boot Camp

If you really want to plan to afford library service to your community in the future, it’s “pay me now or pay me later.” Learn to live within your means. We learned that we cannot afford to keep all the library services we do now since tax dollars have been tapped out, especially staff intensive old-fashioned reference services – we need to change to be light on our feet like-reader’s advisory, ready reference.

We had quite a discussion on the future of old-fashioned staff intensive reference service and concluded that traditional reference service is DEAD! Librarians need to reinvent their jobs.

Real planning means to step on toes to move forward.