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Webinar Title: Making the Best of a Shrinking Budget: Creative Practices in a New Economy<br>
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Speaker: Leslie Burger, Alice Calabrese-Berry and Mary Case<br>
Cost: Free to Library Staff of Oregon Libraries<br>
Date: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Friday, January 29, 2010
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Description: <br>
<strong></strong><p class="bodytext">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. </p>
<p class="bodytext">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. . . <br></p>
<p class="bodytext">Join <strong>Leslie Burger, </strong>Director of the Princeton (NJ) Public Library and founder of Library Development Solutions,<strong> </strong><strong>Alice Calabrese-Berry</strong>, Executive Director of Metropolitan (Chicago) Library System and <strong>Mary Case</strong>,
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. </p>
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@bcr.org<br>
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Location: <br>
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 <strong></strong>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)<br>
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How to Register:<br>
Register online at http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/registration.html – registration is FREE.<br>
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Background Information:<br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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/). <br>
<br><br><div style="text-align: center;"> Katie Anderson, Library Development Services<br>* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<br> Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<br> katie.anderson@state.or.us, 503-378-2528</div></body></html>