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Planning & Partnerships:Strategic Initiatives

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Talking Points

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• A bit about Olin• What is a partnership?• Why partner?• Case in External Advisory Board• Case in Vendor partnering• Corporate - Academic• Case in Collection development• Staff possibilities• Cases in Technology• What is success? • Lessons learned

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Olin’s Library

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• Philosophy

• Access

• Service

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What is a Partnership?

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Vendors Customers

Internal Partners

Other Centers

Info Center

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Why Partner?

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• Global mindset• Think strategically• Innovate

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Creating a Station

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Alosh Bennett

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Case in External Library Advisory Board

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Ken Bosma

• What was the goal of my board?

• What groups did I want to consider?

• What value would each group bring?

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Creating THE LIST & Recruiting

• Considerations:– Geography– Diversity of

representation– Existing relationships– New relationships– Balance of expertise– Win-win relationship

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James Montgomery Flagg

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First Meeting

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cara fealy choate

Plan• Purpose• Agenda• Date• Time • Space

Binders• Strategic

plan• Members• Biographies• Background

questions• Directions

Logistics• Food• Presentation• Internal

guests• Note taker• Name tags

& tents

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Meeting Content

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• Players introduce themselves

• Plan for the day• Olin presentation

Introductions

• Strategic plan • Other questions,

such as faculty research support

Discussions • Gather feedback throughout discussions and during lunch

• A good scribe helps

Feedback

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Beyond the 1st Meeting

• Agenda of current topics– Partnerships– Circling back to the strategic plan in our new

financial climate

• Each meeting– Update of library initiatives– Any campus or external events that impact library

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Impact

Administrative Impact

Network of Experts

Wisdom of Group

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Value of Board Outside of Meetings

• Where the Network of Experts Shine– Copyright advice– Strategic plan meets a

new budgeting environment

– Running a large marketing event

– One good link leads to another

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Ian Burt

Case in Vendor Partnering

• Vendors as Partners– Think win-win– Training– Prizes and materials– Snacks during finals– Industry advice &

mentoring roles

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Library Vendor Fair: Planning

Timeline

Players

Budget

Communicate!

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Set your goal, and then…

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Library Vendor Fair: Execution

2 Weeks Before

Day Before

Day Of

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Library Vendor Fair: Comments I

• Students answering raffle question “What did you learn?”:– We have access to a lot of online resources!– Where/how to do my research.– I learned how to customize my search windows.– E-book note taking – pretty nifty!– That our library is the most awesome ever! So

many resources, so little time!

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Library Vendor Fair: Comments II

• Vendor feedback:– “I very much enjoyed the experience at Olin’s vendor day

and we would certainly love to participate again next year. What was particularly interesting from my stand-point, was the students’ reaction to our technology...” Credo

– “It was great to get a chance to meet with students, faculty, and staff.” Elsevier

– “We had great foot traffic and the students asked thoughtful questions and really showed interest in our resources. I was really glad to be able to speak with them.” Thomson Reuters

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Corporate - Academic

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Olin & Analog Devices

Flow of Customers

Mentoring & Lifelong Learning

Projects & Internships

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Local Partner Possibilities

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• Babson-Olin-Wellesley• Complimentary

Curriculum & Distance• Cultures and Sizes• History• Presidents & Moving

Forward

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Partnership Journey

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James Jordan

• Five Colleges• Tri-College• Claremont• Colby-Bates-Bowdoin• 2CUL• Partner Spectrum

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Case in Collection Development

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Staff Possibilities

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• Liaisons / Subject Experts

• Embedded Librarians• Technical Services• Library IT Expertise• Staff Development

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Cases in Technology

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• ILS Systems, Skins and the like

• Institutional Repositories• Shared Databases• Wikis, Blogs• Chat, Twitter• Subject Guides• Mobile

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What is Success?

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Mission / Vision / Goals

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Lessons Learned

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• The tent• Communicate,

communicate, communicate

• Time• Outside organizations

can be useful• Grants are good

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Resources I

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• 2CUL: http://www.2cul.org/ • Claremont University Consortium:

http://www.cuc.claremont.edu/ • Colby, Bates & Bowdoin: http://www2.cbbnet.org/• Five Colleges: http://www.fivecolleges.edu/ • Tri-College background:

http://www.oberlingroup.org/files/CCD_Projects_Pennsylvania.pdf

• Tri-College site: http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/trico/

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Resources II

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A Special Thanks To

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