We>Me New Jersey Library Association Presentation 2012

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WE>ME

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What does it mean to you?www.pcsweeney.com

How does ME become WE?

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Social Capital www.pcsweeney.com

Importance of Social Capital

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How do we Build Social

Capital

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Outreach

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Community Engagement

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Talk to people

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Social Media

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Problems…

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Solutions…

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Party!

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Party with your Patrons

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Party with your local organizations www.pcsweeney.com

Can’tFind a Party?

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Say YES more often

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How would you build Social Capital?

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Spend ya social Skrilla

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Non Traditional Collectionswww.pcsweeney.com

What is a non-traditional Collection?

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information Tools

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Need Versus Want

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Library? www.pcsweeney.com

How would you define a

non-traditional collection?

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Guitar Collection

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Seed Library www.pcsweeney.com

Board Game Collection

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Video Game Collectionwww.pcsweeney.com

Nook Collectionwww.pcsweeney.com

Let them make the collection

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Patron driven collectiondevelopment

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Community Created Books

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There is no good reason that your collection has to be at the library

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Book Bikes

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Little Libraries

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Waiting Room Libraries

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Guerilla Libraries

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Instrument Collection

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What are some of your

favorite collections?

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You don’t have to make the

program

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Programs From the communitywww.pcsweeney.com

Poetry Nights

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Saturday Morning Chess

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Open Mic Nights

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After school Gaming

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Parenting support groupswww.pcsweeney.com

What are some your community created

programs?

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Partnered programswww.pcsweeney.com

Touchpoints bilingual Story Time

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Police or Firefighter

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Computers for Everyone

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Parks and Rec Partnershipwww.pcsweeney.com

MMAP Murals

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ImaginOn

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What are some of your favoritePartnerships?

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Overcoming obstacles

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Mitigating costs

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• Friends of the library• Grants• Donations

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Craigslist

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Café Press Store

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ASK!!!

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Build It

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Share Costs and

Resources

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What are some of the ways

you save resources?

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Where to begin?

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Find out what they want!www.pcsweeney.com

• Staff• Patrons• Orgs• Media

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Getting Admin on Board

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It’s a Pilot Program!

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Make a list of everything you need

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Make a list of everyone you need

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Don’t do it alone!www.pcsweeney.com

Waypoints www.pcsweeney.com

Make a deadline!

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Here is my example

If you can’t answer this question, for the love of god STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING

What are the goals for the project?

Who, what, when? The story of the project

Brainstorm who might be interested, organizations, community leaders,

staff…

Brainstorm all possible costs, edit as needed

Where can you recover your costs? What are your questions?

Anything else standing in your way

Deadline!

How do you plan your projects?

Questions?