Sustaining Libraries
For the next two days I’m in beautiful Portland, ME at Turning the Page: Building Your Library Community. We were fortunate to be awarded a Gates Technology Grant for the next two years which requires a matching component. Attendance at this conference is a grant requirement intended to assist the libraries in raising the matching funds – an interesting idea. The conference itself is a joint effort between PLA and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
We think we have already secured the required funds via our Foundation, but learning about effective advocacy is never a bad idea and I like attending a conference with such a narrow focus. I’m hoping to buy laptops to circulate for patron use in-house but we’ll see how that goes.
The opening speaker is about to get started.
