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2009 Member Information Packet

MARKET YOUR LIBRARY TO THE COMMUNITY: The Best Practices & Tips for an Annual Report to Your Community workshop will help you create an effective report to the community that will market your library. It is a NYS Minimum Public Library Standard to do this annually. Wednesday, January 14th from 1:00 - 3:00pm in the MHLS Auditorium.

PREPARE FOR YOUR STATISTICAL REPORT TO THE STATE: Each library is required to do an annual statistical report online for the Division of Library Development. All reports should be fully submitted by the end of Tuesday, February 17.
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Directors who are new to this, or who want a refresher, should register for a hands-on session of the Annual Report Workshop for New Directors. Space limited!
 Friday, January 23: 10am-noon
 Friday, January 23: 1pm-3pm
 Thursday, January 29: 10am-noon
 Thursday, February 5: 1pm-3pm

The Worth of Your Library Winter 2008 issue of Across the Board

Quality Services Survey: This month all staff that work with patrons and all trustees are asked to fill out a survey to help us pinpoint areas to focus services and give us good information on future services:
Quality Services Survey for Staff that work with patrons
Quality Services Survey for Trustees

"Thanksgiving" Challenge: Can you find at least one supporter in your community - a trustee, friend or avid patron - to write a letter to the editor of your local paper explaining why they are thankful for your library, the online catalog or delivery system in the next week? We bet you can!

  • It doesn't have to be a long letter - it can be short and sweet: "I'm thankful to my public library for (fill in the blank)."
  • Help make things easy for your supporters by giving them the info about how to send in their letter

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