Posts by Wendy Werdin
Your Library is Preparing for a Capital Campaign! Now What?
We’ve seen increased interest in feasibility studies and capital campaigns in the last few months. Given funding opportunities like the American Rescue Plan and the infrastructure bill, we thought we’d take a moment to dig into this meaty topic. Says Library Strategies consultant, David Katz, “Even people who ‘get’ capital campaigns may not ‘get’ the public-private nature…
Read MoreDos and Don’ts for RFPs
Say you have a project like strategic planning that you know will require the help of an outside consultant. An RFP (Request for Proposal) is a document you create that includes a detailed description of your project and the services you’re requesting that invites prospective vendors to respond with their approach and cost. This document…
Read MoreThese Are a Few of Our Favorite Things: Library Strategies Consultants in Their Own Words
Our consultants will be the first to tell you that each library and library support organization brings unique needs, experiences, and expectations to the discussion when they contact us about Library Strategies’ services. The good news is our consultants are just as individual about their approaches to the process, and each of them brings a…
Read MoreHow We Operate: Lightbulb Edition
Library Strategies is a consulting group of The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library. We are the only consulting group in the country based inside of a library organization. As such, we often have big picture conversations with our local library leadership. We offer a unique set of services designed specifically to strengthen libraries…
Read MoreOn Planning and Priorities
During the summer of last year, while we were still finding our footing in response to the pandemic, we conducted a survey of libraries and library-support organizations across the country. The two most pressing challenges libraries identified were the ability to effectively meet the needs of a changing community with static or declining budgets and…
Read MoreHow We Operate: Virtual Planning Edition.
A year ago, when we thought we would be using virtual meetings and events as stop-gaps for a time, we did not consider just how vital they’d become to the way we do business as an organization. Of course, we had “webinars” like most places operating in the 21st century. We had the ability to…
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