I spent most of the conference attending meetings of ICAN, which is the ALA group for cooperative staff. A recent national study was done of cooperatives in the U.S. The findings were discussed in detail at two sessions I attended.
Why should you as a NEFLIN member care about this? It is important that NEFLIN staff keep up with what is going on at other cooperatives, just as much as you would be interested in libraries that are similar in size/scope/community served. It allows you to compare your services and statistics.
NEFLIN can consider future growth opportunities by seeing what other services cooperatives are providing. Sometimes NEFLIN is at the forefront, and sometimes we like others to strike out first and we follow behind learning from their successes and failures.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment