12.11.07
Process Improvement for Libraries
SERLS would like to invite your library to participate in an important training opportunity brought to you collaboratively by the Regional Library Systems of Ohio and through funding by an LSTA Continuing Education Grant from the State Library of Ohio.
“Process Improvement for Libraries” is a series of four workshops designed to comprehensively address the needs of an entire library or library system. Each library system will put together a team of three participants to attend this series of workshops. Teams should be made up of upper-level managers, including the library director, or with full support of the library director to complete their work. In larger library systems, teams may be made up of managers from a single department who intend to improve a process for that department. Smaller libraries may elect to send managers from across the library and select a process to improve.
During the first session, each team will receive training on how to evaluate processes within their library to determine which ones are working great and which ones could be improved. Between sessions, each team will work to apply the concepts learned on a specific process used in their own libraries. By the end of the fourth session, each team will have identified a process that is inefficient or in need of improvement and will have made clear progress towards implementing positive changes. The final session will include a showcase of each team’s process improvements.
This series of four workshops will be offered separately at two different locations.
Mohican State Park, Loudonville:
Monday, February 25th, 2008Monday, April 21st, 2008
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Roberts Centre, Wilmington:
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Tuesday, April 22st, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Friday, July 11th, 2008
Visit to the J.A. Davis Library, University of Rio Grande, 12/10/07
If you want a warm and inviting atmosphere (especially on a cold and rainy day like this day was), stop by the J.A. Davis Library, which serves Rio Grande Community College and the University of Rio Grande. This library is spacious and lovely, filled with beautiful wood accents that give the aura of an “old world” library. The library has three floors and the view from the upper floors is quite beautiful, even on a rainy winter day. The ground floor houses the director, Dave Mauer’s office, student computers, technical services (in which Technical Services Specialist Greg was hard at work cataloging materials and Betty Jean, Acquisitions Specialist, who is retiring this month, was wrapping up her last few days at the library), compact storage, bound periodicals and some quiet rooms for audio/visual viewing. On the main floor you will find the circulation desk with Deb and Gretchen ready to help with a smile, government documents (I am sorry that I wasn’t able to meet Amy Miller who is the Documents Specialist) microfilms, reference, and the reference desk featuring reference librarians Tim and Amy ready to help students. The top floor holds the rest of the book collection. Davis Library houses and impressive collection of over 100,000 titles. Wireless access is available throughout the library for students and seating is abundant. The ground floor has very unique library carrels which allow students plenty of elbow room to spread out a laptop and papers.
Dave, I really appreciate the time you took out of your busy schedule to give me a tour (did I mention I visited on the last day of classes for the semester?) I am VERY impressed with this library! It is beautiful, well organized, notable in size and your staff is top notch!
Check out my slide show for a few pictures of the library, but if you really want to see some better pictures of how it looks, go to the library web site and check out their virtual tour.
