april 25 meeting
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Spring 2012 Learning Community
April 25, 2012
Kate Nevins,Chief Executive Officer,
LYRASIS
Introduction to Our Guest Speaker
Caitlin Bakker Millie Gonzalez
Lisa Shores, Tim Hunter, and Brenda Almeyda
Ghadeer Magdy
Jackie LaPlaca RicordsTimothy Cherubini Laura Warren
Project Updates
1. What progress have you made since our last meeting?
2. What is the hardest obstacle that you've faced since our last meeting?
3. What would you like to ask your learning community colleagues to do in the time between now and our next meeting to help you overcome this obstacle?
Collaboration
Kate NevinsApril 24, 2012
“Library cooperation is a contact sport”
Collaboration
What Is Collaboration?
• little c: people
• BIG C: ORGANIZATIONS
Why collaborate
• interdependence• resources• expertise• power• politics• risk taking
Successful collaboration
• synergies• expectations/goals• communications• more……..
Library Consortia
• geography• library type• programs
Why consortia
• interdependence• resources• expertise• power• politics• risk taking
Changing Consortia Scene
• programs• purpose• membership• funding• sustainability• resources• technology
Consortia members
• ROI?• why?• how many?• Overlap?
Questions:
• Collaborations that work?• That don’t.• New collaboration needs?• Consortia decisions?
Kate Nevins
800-999-8558 x4898
404-372-6510 (cell)
www.LYRASIS.org
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