Streamlined Library Programming: How to Improve Services and Cut Costs
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Overview
Is it possible to both cut costs and improve public library programming for all ages? Yes, it is; this book demonstrates how.
In their roles as community centers, public libraries offer many innovative and appealing programs; but under current budget cuts, library resources are stretched thin. With slashed budgets and limited staff hours, what can libraries do to best serve their publics?
This how-to guide provides strategies for streamlining library programming in public libraries while simultaneously maintaining—or even improving—quality delivery. The wide variety of principles and techniques described can be applied on a selective basis to libraries of all sizes.
Based upon the author’s own extensive experience as well as that of colleagues in other library systems, this book provides readers with a practical, step-by-step approach to maximizing resources and minimizing costs of programming without sacrificing quality, as well as insider tips and examples from the field that will help them to avoid known pitfalls.
Is it possible to both cut costs and improve public library programming for all ages? Yes, it is; this book demonstrates how.
Discusses centralized programming, explaining what it is, how it works, and how librarians can select and apply techniques to their libraries
Provides effective solutions to streamlining library services and improving efficiencies in a time of budget reductions
Offers useful sample documents and forms, such as program description templates, surveys, and storytime box logistics
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Change Management
Chapter 3: Project Team
Chapter 4: Staffing
Chapter 5: Program Development: Storytime
Chapter 6: Program Development: Other Staffed Programs
Chapter 7: Program Development: Partner, Volunteer, and Paid Programs
Chapter 8: A Menu of Options
Chapter 9: Training and Marketing
Chapter 10: Kickoff and Evaluation
Bibliography
Appendix
Index
A clearly written practical guide to the issues surrounding the move to centralized library programming. Any library team considering the move to streamlined programming will find a set of easy-to-follow suggestions that will smooth the transition. . . . [R]ecommended without reservation for public libraries—regardless of size.
- Title: Streamlined Library Programming: How to Improve Services and Cut Costs
- Author: Daisy Porter-Reynolds
- Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 146
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBN: 9798216150244
- Resource ID: LLS:9798216150244
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T15:43:12Z
Daisy Porter-Reynolds is deputy director at Arlington Heights Memorial Library in Illinois, where she oversees library public services.