Community Center/Community Librarians, I need your help! Faced with budget cuts I have been asked to research comparable libraries to my own. I am meeting with my executive board on Friday May 1and need to have this info by then.
We are a community library, funded by the Federation, housed in the JCC. We have been open in our new space for two years. The highlights of what we do/have: · a monthly daytime adult book group, · a monthly Holocaust book group · a monthly International film group · starting a monthly evening book group in May · 10,000 item collection · large DVD collection (they circulate more than the books) · Circulate 220+ items a month · have issued 500+ patron cards · active Advisory board · 55+ Friends of the Library · Occasional children's programs · Community Read · One or two author lectures during the year · Co-sponsor the Book Fair with the JCC (at no cost to us) · Are open Sunday Thursday from 10am 2pm My questions to other libraries similar to mine: · How does our usage compare? · How are you funded (Federation/JCC/other)? · Are you part of e.g. the Bureau of Education ? · What programs do you have? · Do you do your own fundraising? · How do you market your library? I would really, really appreciate responses and if there is a need perhaps all community librarians can identify themselves and we can form our own group or at least be aware of each other. Some of us met together in Cleveland (Lynn Feinman/92nd Street Y, Francine Menken/JCC of Metropolitan Detroit and Marlene Reynolds) and there were a couple of others. Unfortunately I will not be in Chicago this year (budget cuts). Please reply off-list. Thank you in advance. Joan Joan Gremont Library Director Tycher Library Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas jgrem...@jfgd.org 214 239-7132 "I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library" Jorge Luis Borges --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
