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Proposed Service Responses Discussions
As you’ve seen from our recent buzz, the drafts of the new and improved PLA Results Service Responses are now available. True to the first round of the process, we are opening up each new Service Response for discussion here on the blog. The original set of service responses numbered 13, and last time around [...]
PLA Service Responses discussion summary, plus deadline extended
The PLA Service Responses team, headed by Sandra Nelson, has decided to extend the PLA Service Responses discussion past today’s cutoff to Friday, November 3, 2006. New comments are being posted everyday for nearly every post in the discussion. Here are the numbers as of this morning: Basic Literacy (10 comments) Business and Career Information [...]
Service Response Discussion: What’s Missing – Suggested New Service Responses
This post is part of a series designed to further discussion of the PLA Results service responses, designed in 1998 to describe “what a library does for, or offers to, the public in an effort to meet a set of well-defined community needs.” If you have an idea for a new service response, post it [...]
Service Response Discussion: Do we need a Immigrant Services response?
This post is part of a series designed to further discussion of the PLA Results service responses, designed in 1998 to describe “what a library does for, or offers to, the public in an effort to meet a set of well-defined community needs.” The bulleted comments below were gathered in conference sessions by the PLA [...]
Service Response Discussion: Do we need a Gaming response?
This post is part of a series designed to further discussion of the PLA Results service responses, designed in 1998 to describe “what a library does for, or offers to, the public in an effort to meet a set of well-defined community needs.” The bulleted comments below were gathered in conference sessions by the PLA [...]
Service Response Discussion: Do we need a Self-Service response?
This post is part of a series designed to further discussion of the PLA Results service responses, designed in 1998 to describe “what a library does for, or offers to, the public in an effort to meet a set of well-defined community needs.” The bulleted comments below were gathered in conference sessions by the PLA [...]
Service Response Discussion: Do we need a Technology Service Response?
This post is part of a series designed to further discussion of the PLA Results service responses, designed in 1998 to describe “what a library does for, or offers to, the public in an effort to meet a set of well-defined community needs.” The bulleted comments below were gathered in conference sessions by the PLA [...]
Service Response Discussion: Local History and Genealogy
This post is part of a series designed to further discussion of the PLA Results service responses, designed in 1998 to describe “what a library does for, or offers to, the public in an effort to meet a set of well-defined community needs.” The bulleted comments below were gathered in conference sessions by the PLA [...]
Service Response Discussion: Lifelong Learning
This post is part of a series designed to further discussion of the PLA Results service responses, designed in 1998 to describe “what a library does for, or offers to, the public in an effort to meet a set of well-defined community needs.” The bulleted comments below were gathered in conference sessions by the PLA [...]
Service Response Discussion: Information Literacy
This post is part of a series designed to further discussion of the PLA Results service responses, designed in 1998 to describe “what a library does for, or offers to, the public in an effort to meet a set of well-defined community needs.” The bulleted comments below were gathered in conference sessions by the PLA [...]





