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This is my presentation for the New Library Association Conference
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WE>ME
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What does it mean to you?www.pcsweeney.com
How does ME become WE?
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Social Capital www.pcsweeney.com
Importance of Social Capital
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How do we Build Social
Capital
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Outreach
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Community Engagement
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Talk to people
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Social Media
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Problems…
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Solutions…
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Party!
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Party with your Patrons
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Party with your local organizations www.pcsweeney.com
Can’tFind a Party?
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Say YES more often
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How would you build Social Capital?
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Spend ya social Skrilla
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Non Traditional Collectionswww.pcsweeney.com
What is a non-traditional Collection?
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information Tools
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Need Versus Want
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Library? www.pcsweeney.com
How would you define a
non-traditional collection?
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Guitar Collection
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Seed Library www.pcsweeney.com
Board Game Collection
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Video Game Collectionwww.pcsweeney.com
Nook Collectionwww.pcsweeney.com
Let them make the collection
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Patron driven collectiondevelopment
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Community Created Books
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There is no good reason that your collection has to be at the library
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Book Bikes
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Little Libraries
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Waiting Room Libraries
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Guerilla Libraries
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Instrument Collection
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What are some of your
favorite collections?
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You don’t have to make the
program
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Programs From the communitywww.pcsweeney.com
Poetry Nights
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Saturday Morning Chess
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Open Mic Nights
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After school Gaming
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Parenting support groupswww.pcsweeney.com
What are some your community created
programs?
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Partnered programswww.pcsweeney.com
Touchpoints bilingual Story Time
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Police or Firefighter
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Computers for Everyone
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Parks and Rec Partnershipwww.pcsweeney.com
MMAP Murals
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ImaginOn
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What are some of your favoritePartnerships?
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Overcoming obstacles
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Mitigating costs
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• Friends of the library• Grants• Donations
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Craigslist
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Café Press Store
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ASK!!!
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Build It
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Share Costs and
Resources
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What are some of the ways
you save resources?
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Where to begin?
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Find out what they want!www.pcsweeney.com
• Staff• Patrons• Orgs• Media
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Getting Admin on Board
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It’s a Pilot Program!
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Make a list of everything you need
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Make a list of everyone you need
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Don’t do it alone!www.pcsweeney.com
Waypoints www.pcsweeney.com
Make a deadline!
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Here is my example
If you can’t answer this question, for the love of god STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING
What are the goals for the project?
Who, what, when? The story of the project
Brainstorm who might be interested, organizations, community leaders,
staff…
Brainstorm all possible costs, edit as needed
Where can you recover your costs? What are your questions?
Anything else standing in your way
Deadline!
How do you plan your projects?
Questions?
