Hello librarians!

Please take a look at the information notice below on resource sharing.

Best,
Kym

Kymberlee Powe | Children and YA Consultant | Kymberlee.Powe@ct.gov | Office: (860) 704-2207 | https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/dld/children| 786 S. Main St. Middletown, CT 06457| Fax: (860) 704-2228

From: LaValle, Dawn
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2020 1:10 PM
To: LaValle, Dawn
Cc: CSL-CONNTECH@LIST.CT.GOV
Subject: On Behalf of the ACLPD Committee on Resource Sharing Chairs

Dear Librarian:

When you Google “resource sharing,” you’d think there would be links to government programs or business strategies. Nope, when you Google “resource sharing,” the first page links are almost all about libraries and initiatives on the national, state and local levels.

Once again, libraries are leading the way. The Connecticut State Library asked the Advisory Council for Library Planning and Development (ACLPD) to form a Committee on Resource Sharing (CRS) which includes all the different library types in our state. The CRS’ charge was to:

· Research and review existing resource sharing practices in other states

· Explore 21^st century library “best practices”  for resource sharing

· Develop resource sharing policies for the Connecticut State Library based on existing national policies adapted for the needs of all CT libraries.

· Develop training modules to educate library staff on resource sharing to better understand the complexity of the services.

· Develop presentations for ILL Roundtables and other events to discuss the sustainability of resource sharing.

· Work collaboratively with the CDLAB eResource Task Force on resource sharing issues.

· Make recommendations to ACLPD, the State Library and the State Library Board for resource sharing practices and policies.

After months of collaboration, the CRS has developed a comprehensive document--the CT Vision for Resource Sharing. It is a framework of three possible resource sharing models for CT libraries. The intent of the framework is to provide a vision of opportunity for the CT library community to determine, through consensus, which scenario to pursue--Transformative, Market or Fortress.

To complete this work, the Committee used Strategic Foresight to develop the Vision document as a pro-active tool to help navigate change and move from being reactive to being pro-active. The document is not policy. It is a flexible framework, a “vision” to build a future policy that needs a collaborative effort from the entire CT library community to build.

The work and resulting document are based on the core belief that communities benefit when libraries collaborate and cooperate with one another. The future scenarios--Transformative, Market and Fortress--are the basis for 21^st Century library services that will be responsive to the future needs of the communities served. The scenarios ensure that libraries have strategies and tactical actions to increase access to information regardless of environment, economics, politics, technology or social drivers. Each of the scenarios have benchmark tools to achieve the most positive outcomes of that scenario.

The CRS’s worked was also informed by the fact that state funding for our libraries is static at best and continually threatened at worst. It is evident that our community has to work with State government as it is now and it will be up to us to develop new solutions to the financial and operational problems we face.

Getting Your Input

The Resource Sharing committee is ready to introduce the CT Vision for Resource Sharing to the greater library community. As a library community, innovation is our DNA. We understand the challenges that lie ahead and have, time and again, come up with new ideas to keep libraries both relevant and on the cutting-edge. To that end, we’re inviting one participant per library to participate in a community dialogue with your library colleagues to help us gather more information so that, together, we can create a resource sharing model that will take us into the future.

COMMUNITY DIALOGUE LOCATION SEARCH

If your library is interested in hosting a facilitates Community Dialogue, we are looking for locations in each of the 6 CLA Regions. Please contact Dawn at 860-757-6665 or dawn.lavalle@ct.gov

Your perspective is vital to this effort.

Thank you,

Carl DeMilia (Executive Director, Bibliomation) and Astoria Ridley ( Law Librarian, Connecticut Judicial Branch)

Co-Chairs, ACLPD Committee on Resource Sharing

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