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Conference Session 167

Less=less; Managing for greater impact

Management and Marketing with Public Libraries

20 August 2014 09:30 - 12:45 | Room: Auditorium Pasteur | FR-EN

Librarians facing the crisis: ACTION — with a translation: Español
GLÒRIA PÉREZ-SALMERÓN (Gerència de Serveis de Biblioteques, Diputació de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
I get by with a little help from my friends’: the value of partners and advocates
JAN RICHARDS (Central West Libraries, Orange, Australia)
The Public Library as a Community Hub for Connected Learning
ÅKE NYGREN (Stockholm Public Library, Digital Library Dept, Stockholm, Sweden)
S.U.R.E. Campaign: Promoting Information Literacy Awareness to Singaporeans
GENE TAN (National Library Board, Singapore, Singapore) and WEE PIN WAN (National Library Board, Singapore, Singapore) and JACLYN TEO (National Library Board, Singapore, Singapore)
Benchmarks: Building Library Management and Leadership Strength
SUSAN BENTON (Urban Libraries Council, Washington, DC, United States)
Using the Data You Have to Create New Data for New Decisions
CHRISTIE KOONTZ (School of Information, Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida, United States)

Today’s library and information organizations are faced with shortages of funds and then subsequently people and resources. Managers have to make hard decisions and cope with fewer resources. Fulfilling the mission is requiring new considerations and techniques that include creativity, new stakeholders, leveraging partnerships, using existing data for decision-making and implementing targeted social media to maximize communications.

Last update: 4 August 2014