Strategic Librarian

I talked in an earlier post about the need to operate libraries as if they were businesses.   If that is so, the first thing you would want to consider would be to develop a business plan.  Why?  For-profit businesses use their business plans to obtain the funding they need from banks, etc. to move forward [...]

Librarians have always worn many hats as they have run their libraries. 
As a Director of the Carnegie Library in a small city in North Dakota, I was responsible for human resources, accounting, grant writer, fundraiser, marketing/public relations, facilities, information technology (it was 1982 and we had one computer), and whatever else the Library Board asked me [...]