Title: Karen Hyman hymansjrlc'org
1 Multi-type Regional Cooperation
Karen Hyman (hyman_at_sjrlc.org) Texas Library
Association April 4, 2003
2Multi-type regional cooperatives ???Multiple
choice
- A. lead and encourage collaboration, resource
sharing, staff development, and innovations to
insure that people receive excellent, up-to-date
library services. - B. are responsive to taxpayers increasing
wariness of any library services that cannot be
accessed by the whole community. - C. allow libraries to get in on the change and
be part of a support group. - D. are an outdated 70s concept.
Answer A, B and C !
3In New Jersey
- Multi-type network since 1984.
- Four regional cooperatives membership
organizations, established in law and regulation. - Stable (or static) Network budget 4.7 million
(augmented by 1.3 million for databases,
technology bond and LSTA. - Expanded definition of resource sharing from
sharing our stuff to joint acquisition and
project development. -
4Resource Sharing of the Past assumed
- Resource sharing was an extra.
- Resource sharing was relatively unknown.
- Communication was slow and limited.
- Technology was proprietary and expensive when
there was any. - Library resource sharing was the only game in
town. - People would drive, wait, and play by our rules.
- Giving money to libraries was a self-evident
good. - Majority of libraries in passive recipient mode.
- Static programs and budgets.
5In NJ, in the past three years
- Growth of
- Web based services directly available to the end
user databases, Jersey Cat ILL, Q and A NJ,
Tutor.com. - Cooperatively staffed services libraries
provide labor. - Regional administration of statewide services.
- Opportunistic services statewide summer
reading, Governors reading club, One Book NJ. - Recruitment, leadership development, marketing
- Partnerships.
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8Highly successful regional networks areresearch
and development incubators.
- Helping libraries get in near the beginning of a
change. - Providing a support group of others working out
the issues as they move along.
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13Highly successful regional networks are risk
managers.
- Helping libraries become more adventurous,
curious, and technically proficient and more
willing to work outside of their own comfort
level. - Helping libraries achieve a sense of equilibrium
while standing on a moving vehicle.
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19Highly successful regional networks arehuman
resource developers.
- Recruiting
- Training
- Developing leadership
- Energizing
- Making offers too good to refuse.
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25Highly successful regional networks
areadvocates.
- Developing and maintaining relationships business
and industry groups, elected officials and other
opinion leaders. - Supporting member library advocacy efforts.
- Working with professional associations and the
State Library to establish and promote library
funding priorities. - Honoring library advocates at network events.
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29Highly successful regional networks areplanners.
- Involving people at all levels of the
organization. - Finding, listening and responding to every great
idea. - Focusing on results as defined by the end user.
30Highly successful regional networks
areexcellent problem solvers.
- Defining the big problem
- Focusing on the big result
- Invested
- Creative
- Persistent
31Highly successful regional networks aresavvy
marketers.
- Looking outward, facing the future, and seeing
the big picture as well as the details that
count. - Spearheading marketing campaigns.
- Fostering market research.
- Implementing and packaging shared services that
resonate with the public.
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34QandANJReal feedback from real users
- Interaction with a live person I was talking
to a real person not a computer! - Professional help finding the answer The
librarian found information that my Mom and I had
been looking for and could not find no matter
where we looked. - Always open I got the answers I needed,
especially when the library was closed. My
first contact was at 2 am Sunday morning. - The Library came to me I am house-bound this
opportunity is greatly appreciated. I didnt
have to go out in the rain. - Fast I like the fact that you get an immediate
answer to your question instead of having to
click on a hundred different links and still not
find the information you need.
35Highly successful regional networks
- Have a strong vision for the future.
- Believe in themselves and their collective
ability to figure out how to make libraries and
resource sharing work for people today. - Support highly successful libraries.
36Contact Information
Karen Hyman Executive Director South Jersey
Regional Library Cooperative 10 Foster Avenue,
Suite F-3 Gibbsboro, NJ 08026 856 346-1222 FAX
856 346-2839 Email hyman_at_sjrlc.org