Minnesota Public Library Budget Shortfalls: A Conversation
The Public Library Division (PLD) of the Minnesota Library Association is excited to announce their first statewide webinar, “Minnesota Public Library Budget Shortfalls: A Conversation,” sponsored by the WebJunction Minnesota team (State Library Services, Metronet, and Minitex).
There are many in the Minnesota public library community who are struggling with budget shortfalls during these challenging economic times. PLD has invited library directors from various types of public libraries—large and small, from the metropolitan area and from greater Minnesota—to share their ideas.
Featured guest speakers are:
- Audrey Betcher, Rochester Public Library
- Pat Conley, Washington County Library
- Jennifer Jepsen, Martin County Library
- Mary Lukkarila, Cloquet Public Library
- Marian Ridge, Kitchigami Regional Library
- moderator Kim Edson, chair of PL
Each presenter will be addressing the following three questions:
- What is your organization doing to address shrinking budgets, especially at a time when library use is growing?
- How have you developed strategic priorities for using the available funding (what to keep/strengthen, what do you let go)?
- How do/did you develop political capital and when do you spend it? (i.e., how have you established your library’s value to the community at a time when there is fierce competition for funding from all of your sources?)
Who should attend? Anyone interested in hearing from a panel of Minnesota public library directors and participating in a statewide conversation about public library budget shortfalls.
Please register today!
To get more information and to register, go to http://minitex.umn.edu/events/training/webinars.asp#228.
MLA’s Public Library Division believes this webinar is just the start to an ongoing conversation and a way for our library community to share its collective wisdom. PLD has created an online group to continue and expand the conversation via WebJunction Minnesota at http://mn.webjunction.org/738. Please join the group, participate, and share with your Minnesota public library community. (To join the group, be sure that you have created an account with WebJunction Minnesota and have affiliated with Minnesota.)
Event Details
- Monday, June 8, 2009
- 10:00–11:30 AM
- webinar
- Click here to view and listen to the recording of the webinar. For Username, type in: mn_meeting (case sensitive). No password needed.