[Libs-Or] Free Webinar: Making the Best of a Shrinking Budget: Creative Practices in a New Economy

[Katie Anderson]

Webinar Title: Making the Best of a Shrinking Budget: Creative Practices in a New Economy
  
  Speaker: Leslie Burger, Alice Calabrese-Berry and Mary Case
  Cost: Free to Library Staff of Oregon Libraries
  Date: Friday, January 29, 2010  
  
  Description: 
  

Costs rise while budgets and our buying power  shrink.  And if we want to innovate, the incorporation of new formats  and technologies taxes our budgets even further.  Librarians,  traditionally used to budgets with modest or no growth, now face steep  cuts.        

In the face of insufficient funding, libraries  reduce hours, cut subscriptions, step up their resource sharing  efforts, engage in consortial buys, outsource where possible, use staff  more creatively, deal more aggressively with vendors, boost fundraising  efforts, mount advocacy campaigns, seek open source solutions, seek  input from focus groups to prioritize services, and even merge with  other libraries. . . 
  

Join Leslie Burger, Director of the Princeton (NJ) Public Library and founder of Library Development Solutions, Alice Calabrese-Berry, Executive Director of Metropolitan (Chicago) Library System and Mary Case,  Director of Libraries at the University of Illinois at Chicago  for a  discussion of best ways to deal with these difficult budget trends.    What principles should guide librarians in saving money?  How can we  sustain our core services?  Our panelists will share their knowledge  and experience and explore creative library practices in this new  economy.     This webcast is 90 minutes in length. Visit  http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/index.html for  additional information or contact BCR directly at info at bcr.org
  
  Location: 
  View the training via webcast from your personal computer or a computer  you can access easily. Or you may attend a group session at a location  near you. Please review the host sites http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/sites/oregon/economy.html to find a convenient location. (Check back later if no Oregon sites are listed initially)
  
  How to Register:
  Register online at http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/registration.html – registration is FREE.
  
  Background Information:
  This webcast is being made available free of charge to staff from  Oregon libraries through a statewide membership to BCR  (http://www.bcr.org), paid for by the Oregon State Library with LSTA  funds.
  
  An online archive of this presentation will be available for up to 30  days after the original broadcast date. Please visit  http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/index.html for more  information.
  
  A DVD of this webcast should be available for you to check out from the  State Library about one month after the date it was broadcast. DVDs of  previous webcasts are available from State Library  (http://catalog.willamette.edu/search~S2/X?college+of+dupage&SORT=DX&searchscope=2)  through your library's establish interlibrary loan process. Learn more  about these DVDs and other Library and Information Science professional  resources at our blog (http://osl-lis.blogspot.com/). 
  


             Katie Anderson, Library Development Services
* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *
       Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301
               katie.anderson at state.or.us, 503-378-2528
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