1. Partner Organizations
1.1. Project goals must be in line with Parent Institutions goals and values.
1.1.1. Museums
1.1.2. Universities
1.1.3. Cities
1.1.4. Corporations
1.1.5. Medical Institutions
1.1.6. Public Schools
1.2. Partner Organizations
1.2.1. American Library Association
1.2.2. Other Libraries
1.2.2.1. Inter-library loan can be useful.
1.2.3. Community Donors
1.2.3.1. Gifts must be assessed through collection dev. policy.
1.2.3.2. Gifts not useful to the library must be rejected.
1.2.3.3. Fundraising money from donors to offset budget constraints.
1.2.4. Community Organizations
1.2.4.1. Parent Teacher Associations can be influential to administrators at the Elementary and high school level.
1.2.4.2. School Boards must be kept in mind for book challenges.
1.3. Primary User Groups
1.3.1. Study of users must be conducted to determine user needs.
1.3.1.1. Study should be conducted every few years to assess changes in user needs.
1.3.1.2. Study should at least account for age, educational level, electronic literacy, racial/cultural demographics, and income.
1.3.1.3. Study must be conducted in a timely fashion, otherwise information will become useless.
2. Project Information
2.1. Define what constitutes, "Greater access to information."
2.2. Steps to be taken
2.2.1. Step 1: Conduct a study of users.
2.2.2. Step 2: Evaluate the collection based on the study.
2.2.3. Step 3: Discard "unneeded materials"
2.2.4. Step 4: implement new electronic and physical reference programs
2.2.5. Step 5: Acquire new materials relevant to user interests.
2.2.6. Step 6: Advertise new services and collection acquisitions.
3. Schedule
3.1. Project Start
3.1.1. Project specifications
3.1.2. End User requirements
3.1.3. Action Plan.
3.2. Development Stage 1: User Study
3.2.1. Design user study.
3.2.2. Acquire a representative sample of users.
3.2.3. evaluate study.
3.3. Development Stage 2: Make changes
3.3.1. Review materials and discard "waste" from the library shelves.
3.3.2. Take feedback on reference services and improve them.
3.3.3. Acquire materials more relevant to user interests.
3.4. Development Stage 3: Advertisement
3.4.1. Social Media
3.4.1.1. Facebook
3.4.1.1.1. Useful for advertising to younger people and advertising the libraries new programs.
3.4.1.2. Twitter
3.4.1.2.1. limited due to form but useful for reaching older individuals.
3.4.1.3. Pinterest
3.4.1.3.1. Primarily used by women but useful for the easy sharing or "pinning" of posts to other boards.
3.4.2. Newspapers
3.4.2.1. Requires money to advertise.
3.4.2.2. Not as popular as it once was.
3.4.2.3. A better use could be a library newsletter.
3.4.3. Television
3.4.3.1. Requires purchase of air time on local networks.
3.4.3.2. If university has its own TV channel can advertise there.
3.4.4. Word of Mouth
3.4.4.1. Free
3.4.4.2. Requires only talking
3.4.4.3. good if budgets are limited.
3.4.4.4. takes advantage of human desire to gossip.
4. Timeline
4.1. Schedule
4.1.1. Stage 1: Study Users.
4.1.1.1. 30-90 days.
4.1.2. Stage 2: Make changes
4.1.2.1. 45 days
4.1.3. Stage 3: Adertisement
4.1.3.1. 30-90 days.
4.2. Resources
4.2.1. Stage 1 Resources
4.2.1.1. Census Data
4.2.1.2. Study Participants
4.2.1.3. Community groups
4.2.1.4. American Library Association.
4.2.1.5. Miscelanious
4.2.2. Stage 2 Resources
4.2.2.1. Publishers
4.2.2.2. Book acquirers
4.2.2.3. Library Consortiums
4.2.2.4. Donors
4.2.2.5. Miscellaneous groups
4.2.3. Stage 3 Resources
4.2.3.1. Parent Organization
4.2.3.2. Local Libraries
4.2.3.3. community groups
4.2.3.4. Social media organizations .
4.2.3.5. Word of Mouth/people on the street.
5. Limitations and Concerns
5.1. Services
5.1.1. Reference Services
5.1.1.1. Requires a reference librarian.
5.1.1.2. May be overwhelmed if only one reference librarian is employed.
5.1.1.3. Electronic reference services can increase libraries relevance without physical visitation to the library but may give impression of librarians not being busy.
5.1.2. Initial Setup Costs
5.1.2.1. Electronic services can have a higher setup cost in buying equipment but more long term benefit and use in information world.
5.1.2.2. Quality of Electronic vs. Physical services may vary on budget.
5.1.2.3. Physical materials can be expensive if bought individually. Bulk purchase preferred.
5.2. Personel
5.2.1. Semiprofessional
5.2.1.1. Can be trained on the job or used as interns.
5.2.1.2. Allows librarians to devote time to broader concerns in the library.
5.2.1.3. Quality of the individuals will vary.
5.2.1.4. Not trained in the professional techniques of a librarian.
5.2.2. Professional
5.2.2.1. Has access to a support network.
5.2.2.2. Has been professionally educated in the literature and techniques of the profession.
5.2.2.3. Should be employed for a longer duration than the semi-professional or volunteer workers.
5.2.2.4. There is only so much one librarian can do alone.
5.3. Budget
5.3.1. Materials
5.3.1.1. Physical
5.3.1.1.1. Library must allocate funds for upkeep.
5.3.1.1.2. Physical library space required for items.
5.3.1.1.3. Generally only one user can utilize the material at a time.
5.3.1.2. Electronic
5.3.1.2.1. Can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection.
5.3.1.2.2. Periodicals and Journal access may change without notice.
5.3.1.2.3. Enables users to search the documents electronically.
5.3.1.3. Budget
5.3.1.3.1. Physical Materials need repair every so often.
5.3.1.3.2. Library will need to expand as the collection grows. Money must be set aside to account for that.
5.3.2. Long and Short Term Budgets
5.3.2.1. Long Term
5.3.2.1.1. Libraries may have to wait for results of programs to show.
5.3.2.1.2. The viability of the programs may be threatened by budgetary concerns in tight fiscal years.
5.3.2.1.3. Account for damaged equipment and materials.
5.3.2.2. Short Term
5.3.2.2.1. Increased costs setting up new programs for the library.
5.3.2.2.2. immediate gains may be slow.
5.3.2.2.3. advertising campaign may be required to showcase new programs.
6. Actions
6.1. Define Project Schedule
6.1.1. Dependencies
6.1.1.1. Many variables for this schedule will depend upon the willingness of parent organizations and other partner groups to contribute time and information. Especially in public and special libraries due to teir wide ranging users.
6.1.2. Milestones
6.1.2.1. Stage 1 completed by 90 days, or earlier.
6.1.2.2. Stage 2 completed earlier than 45 days.
6.1.2.3. Stage 3 showing results thirty days after launch of ad campaign.
6.2. Limitations
6.2.1. Schedule
6.2.1.1. Stage 1: Study Users.
6.2.1.1.1. 30-90 days.
6.2.1.2. Stage 2: Make changes
6.2.1.2.1. 45 days
6.2.1.3. Stage 3: Adertisement
6.2.1.3.1. 30-90 days.
6.2.2. Budget
6.2.2.1. Should be kept as minimal as possible. View this program as a startup and try to work with what can be gotten.
6.2.2.2. If more than minimum funding can be acquired that is good.
6.2.2.3. Grants from the ALA and other supportive organizations can assist with funding.