Value of Libraries - Knowledge Cafe - Why we need to demonstrate our value

ISSUE:  Why we need to demonstrate our value

v  Survival

v  Sharing budgets

v  Justification of existence

v  Demonstrate difference to bottom line

v  Where you value add

v  Accountable for the budgets / inputs

v  Demonstrating relevance to the mission of the organisation

v  Being proactive

v  Competition for resources

v  Should be in the position of “selling solutions” not services

v  Reporting about libraries that have closed then what

v  Declining or closed library stories & outcomes ie Broadband, Treasury, Transport, Medicare, Res Energy & Tourism

v  DIMIA / DIAL

v  Approx 10 libraries in the last 2 yrs

v  People are too much of an overheads

v  Staff / people are undervalued

v  Outsourcing

v  Rochester study – on benefits of lib in the org.