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<DIV dir=ltr align=left>Webinar Title: Making the Best of a Shrinking Budget:
Creative Practices in a New Economy<BR><BR>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
</SPAN><BR><BR>Description: <BR><STRONG></STRONG></DIV>
<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><BR>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><BR>How to Register:<BR>Register online at
http://bcr.org/training/partners/teleconferences/registration.html –
registration is FREE.<BR><BR>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><BR>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><BR>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>