The following classes have been suggested.
If you would like to see them this summer or fall, you MUST tell me so in the comments section at the end of this Friday Notes. Ken
1. Open Meetings Law - Outside Speaker 3 hours ce
How to be in compliance, closed meetings, what meetings must be posted.
2. Hireing personell - Outside Speaker 3 hours ce
Dos and Daonts of hiring, giving references
Volenteers and Community Service Workers
3. Foundations and Friends groups, How to Organize.
Foundations - Outside Speaker 3 hours ce afternoon session
Friends Group - Outsie Speaker 3 hours ce morning session
4 Office 2007 - A series 3 hours each session, Librarian Speaker
5. Policy Establishment and Review for Boards & Directors 3 hours ce
See below (at end of Friday Notes) for a policy checklist. This class will review the policies that the workshop participants identify as being needed in their library.
6. In Service to Iowa - Tips and Tricks to comply with the Standards 3 hours ce Local Speakers
If you want to double check with Iowa Workforce Development, their contact information is:
Iowa Workforce Development
1000 East Grand Avenue
Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0209
Telephone: (515) 281-5387 or (800) JOB-IOWA
An important part of the directors job is to keep your trustees up to speed on these things. This is especally true if your trustees have not had trustee education recently - things change. See Standards
Take a look at your communities web presence does it link to
the library? Does it look sharp? Does the library web site look up to date or
stale? Is there anything on your website
that would make someone come back? Can you fill in some of the holes in the
information that is not on the community website? Is the library an e-asset to the community or
just another building? WHY?
What if they made a policy and no one used
it?
Despite some
heated public debates, officials of the Cook Memorial Public Library District in
Libertyville, Illinois, say no parents have taken advantage of a new policy
allowing them to restrict what videos or DVDs their kids can check out. The plan
went into effect February 19 after it was approved by the library board. The
board’s 5-1 vote followed months of discussions prompted by complaints from a
few parents....
Arlington Heights (Ill.)
Daily Herald,Mar.
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