LSTA GRANTS

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LSTA - GRANTS

• CURRENT DATES
• January 14 Announcement
• Mid-February Webcast
• May 1 Grants will be due
• July 1 Award letters

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Statewide Reference Project Update
INTRO Over the past several months, we have been
creating a plan for rethinking and retooling the
Statewide Reference model. Our plan has been
built on past surveys and studies, and is
designed to gather more data to complete our
understanding of information usage, and to create
a process that will help us truly innovate how we
can best provide information services to our
communities. THE PLAN
STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
STAGE 4
STAGE 5
DEC-MARCH 2008 DATA COLLECTION
APRIL 2008 THINK TANK PREP
FALL 2008 THINK TANK
CLA 2008 STATEWIDE INPUT
END 2008-2009 BUILDING IT

• Think Tank Creators
• group to meet with
• futurist facilitators to
• design a statewide
• reference think tank
• process.
• This group will also
• look at all of the data
• gathered relating to
• statewide ref., and
• develop new
• combinations to help
• the think tank be more
• informed.

• Participants from
• across the state will
• gather for 1 ½ days to
• think about information
• trends and data, and
• create 3 scenarios for
• what statewide ref.
• could become.

• Presentations at CLA
• and other venues will
• be given to share data
• and the 3 scenarios.
• Input from participants
• will be gathered. They
• will be asked to identify
• what scenarios or pieces
• of scenarios they think
• would be most beneficial
• to all.

• A Builders Group will
• be formed to analyze the
• feedback from the input
• sessions, and to develop
• an action plan for creating
• the new statewide
• reference model.

• ZOGBY polls to
• understand how
• Californians find
• and use info.
• Poll I via email was
• completed in
• January 2008
• Poll 2 link via library
• websites statewide
• to be completed in
• March 2008.

NEXT STEPMAKING IT HAPPEN
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More Statewide Input
WEBCAST JANUARY 16, 2009 Presentation
about Statewide Information Services
Project Opportunity to vote for concepts that
we should pursue as next steps.
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Next steps
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Town Hall Meetings Resource Sharing
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Town Hall Meetings
Register _at_ http//califa.org/townhall.php
Dates and LocationsDecember 8      San Jose
Public Library Martin Luther King, Jr.
LibraryDecember 10    Solano County Fairfield
Civic Center LibraryDecember 15    Shasta
Public Library ReddingJanuary 6           
San Diego County LibraryJanuary 7           
Burbank Public LibraryJanuary 8           
Fresno County Public Library Fowler
Branch January 15 Sacramento Public
Library South Natomas Branch