Working Together
Powerful Partnerships that Transform Libraries and Communities
Working Together
Powerful Partnerships that Transform Libraries and Communities
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Description
Discover the best way your library can work with community leaders, allies, and collaborators to create lasting and purposeful partnerships.
People are often burnt out in libraries right now. This feeling emanates in part from the feeling that we're the last public institution standing, and therefore have to pick up whatever is falling through the cracks of a failing social net. This book focuses on the proactive strategies that can change this reality. If public libraries are feeling alone, public libraries need to find partners, allies, and collaborators.
This book walks librarians through the various types of partnerships and includes information on models for developing, sustaining, and discontinuing partnerships; tools and tips for partnering with purpose; pointers on finances and record keeping; and more. This book prepares the reader to develop transformative solutions to systemic problems no institution or sector could address on its own.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Overview of Partnerships and Public Librarianship.
Part 2. How to Partner and Build Relationships
Chapter 2. Something Old, Something New: Community Problem Analysis and the Public Library Partnership Lifecycle model.
Chapter 3. Identifying and Approaching Partners
Chapter 4. Identifying and Leading Coalitions and Multi-Sector Organizations
Chapter 5. Aligning Mission and Values
Part 3: From Relationships to Actions: Tools for Partnering with Purpose
Chapter 6. Design Thinking as a Strategy to Act Together
Chapter 7. Acting Together: What does it look like?
Chapter 8. Aligning Roles and Responsibilities within the Partnership and Deciding what Type of Partnership to Develop
Part 4: Financial and Record-Keeping Aspects of Partnerships
Chapter 9. Documentation for Partnerships
Chapter 10. Don't Be Afraid to Talk Money, or the Allocation of Resources Across Organizations
Part 5. Analyzing Successes and Shortcomings, Sustaining Partnerships
Chapter 11. Evaluating and Assessing Partnerships.
Chapter 12. Sustaining / Ending / Renewing Partnerships
Chapter 13. Celebrating and Communicating
Part 6: Conclusions and a Call to Action for Librarians and their Partners
Chapter 14. Conclusions and a Call to Action for Librarians and their Partners
Product details
| Published | Jan 07 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9798216382652 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited |
| Illustrations | 1 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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