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PLA Boot Camp, Day 5
PLA Boot Camp, Day 5 It’s over! In some ways it is hard to believe that 5 days have passed. While it was definitely an intense process, this group kept its high energy and enthusiasm until the end. Bottom line: Implementation: Just do it! Start looking at your plan. Start looking at your activities. Start [...]
PLA Boot Camp, Day 4
I’m posting for yesterday even though it is Friday morning and we will be starting our last day soon. Yesterday we talked about the cost of our resources and how monies are allocated toward serving our library’s service responses or objectives. Not surprisingly, not one of us (77 folks) specifically knew the percentages of our [...]
Gargoyle Reception @ The Arcade, Cleveland
Gargoyles at The Arcade in Cleveland, Ohio: built in 1890 and designed by John Eisenmann. We had an amazing reception in one of the coolest buildings I’ve ever been in. THANK YOU!
PLA Boot Camp, Day 3
In some ways, it seems like we’ve been here 3 weeks! And, not in a bad way…just in taking in a lot of information! Strategic Planning for Results (Garcia and Nelson) is used in many libraries and is, in fact, the standard model of the industry. Las Vegas used it and was Library of the [...]
PLA Boot Camp, Day 2
Today was a high-energy day for all of us attending Boot Camp. First on the easel was the question: How old can you be to get a library card without a parent’s signature? Out of 44 libraries polled, six said ages 12 or under, eighteen said ages 13-17, and twenty said 18 and over. I [...]
PLA Boot Camp, Day 1
Hello everyone! Welcome to Cleveland, Ohio! My name is Reeba Lynn and I work in Pacifica, CA, with the San Mateo County Library system (near San Francisco). I am officially a Public Services Librarian, but I prefer the title Community Services Librarian… makes much more sense to me. Besides “community” sounds better than “public”, don’t [...]
blogger introduction
Greetings! My name is Anne Heidemann, and I’ll be blogging about the PLA Results Boot Camp 4 this week. I posted here a few times from ALA Annual this summer, about YALSA’s Got Tweens preconference, the Newbery/Caldecott banquet, and a session on PACs in the Library 2.0 World. I’m the Children’s, Tween & Teen Services [...]
