ISSUE: Demonstrating value to organisation / community (original notes are in the form of a mind map)
v Showing value in an ongoing way – before the threat of closure
o Impact of not having the library
v Overcoming stereotypes
v Linking with organisational / community goals & values
o Statistics
§ Salaries of professionals in other areas vs. Research staff in libraries
§ Costing
§ Subscription services
o Highlighting library contribution to major projects – how library work translates to outcome
§ Use of [internal media] & storytelling – tailoring to audience – anecdotes for senior managers (strategic drivers)
§ Executive buy-in
§ Relationship management
§ “Ownership of the library”
§ Targeting services to decision makers
§ How many ministenides {?} (other people keep their statistics)
v Highlight staff not just resources
v Training
o Improving Digital literacy – impact on projects
v Efficient ways to record & repeat statistics
o Tools & ways to measure – Templates, EBL
o Qualitative
v Understanding of floor space, physicality, physical space vs. digital prescience
o Space as vulnerable – could this communicate how library is valued or viewed in organisation?
§ Usability & access – location & how this impacts on usage by demographics
o Antidote to open plan offices – Explore non library uses
§ “Hook in walls” to link with other services
§ Book clubs / fiction exchange
§ Work-life balance as a quite space.
§ Stress
§ Quiet room or meeting space
o Accessibility for online material
v Freelancers Community centre linking people with interests [public libraries as places to meet, build interests or bo quiet!] vs Business refuge – “vulnerability” or no stupid questions
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