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RE: The ideas you will implement
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The ideas you will implement
11:19 AM EDT 9/29/09
Your creative thinking has led to a brilliant idea. What is the idea? What are your implementation plans? What feedback would you like from the group?
RE: The ideas you will implement
1:19 PM EDT 9/29/09 as a reply to Brenda Hough.
I want to work on a job bank. I am not worried about getting the space, money, or materials together. But I am a little concerned about how I make it appropriate and awesome for participants.

Basically, what I am most concerned about is having it have that certain pizzazz that will get people excited.

One of my ideas is using our old server to connect a few computers to the internet and some of our old printers (that work just fine, we just couldnt get them to network right) and having our tech savvy teens be in charge of running the technology end of the lab and working on them if need be.

We are also thinking about having local businessmen come in to talk about what they are looking for in applicants, as well as people from the County Extension office to talk about resumes, cover letters, job apps, etc.

I was also thinking, just now, that having some retired folk who can help people out would be nice.

Have coffee and cookies too.

Not only do I think this could be a successful program, but the marketing and publicity it would provide the library would be pretty cool. Enabling us to reach some corners of our service population that we have not reached in the past.

Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome!
Royce
RE: The ideas you will implement
Tags: action planning creativity innovation kansas creativity planning
5:32 PM EDT 9/29/09 as a reply to Brenda Hough.
I want to plan a 3 part online event on planning. This event will be held in an online environment like Wimba. Hopefully, the first 90 minute webinar will be an overview by Sandra Nelson. This session will be something similar to the session she delivered at the ARSL conference in Gatlinburg a few weeks ago. It will focus on the importance and benefits of planning. The second 90 minute webinar will focus on an action planning template and process. In the interim between the 2nd and 3rd webinars, participants will be asked to post their action plans to the event web page (on WJKS). The 3rd webinar will provide sharing and feedback opportunities for the participants and conclude with a discussion of implementation and evaluation. I also need to consider some kind of mechanism for follow up to help participants actually implement and evaluate.

You can find Sandra's handout, etc. online at Sandra Nelson's ARSL Presentation

Would love to get any feedback, criticism, ideas, etc.
RE: The ideas you will implement
1:59 PM EDT 9/29/09 as a reply to royce kitts.
Wow, Royce! This is much more than just a job bank. I really like the idea of getting people in your community invested in helping each other. I bet when you start identifying the partners for this project you will get all kind of ideas for other programming, etc. that you can offer.

Great idea!
RE: The ideas you will implement
2:38 PM EDT 10/9/09 as a reply to Brenda Hough.
I am writing a training plan for NEKLS. I started as CE Consultant at the end of July. So far, I have been working with balls that were already in the air, wheels that were already turning. As we move ahead though, I want to really be thoughtful about the CE we provide. What would be most useful to our member libraries?

Many of the CE events are traditions. How can we know that they are still meeting needs in the best way possible? How can we break beyond what we've always done to keep things fresh and interesting?

To help develop this plan, I plan to hold a focus group with NEKLS member libraries. I also want to have in-depth conversations with NEKLS staff members, to find out what their thoughts are about where we've been and where we're going. I also want to view training plans from around the library universe -- especially training plans from organizations I consider innovative (like Infopeople, NSLS, NEFLIN).

I want the plan to be a really useful document -- something that guides the decisions and plans we make regarding training opportunities. I want it to be fresh and exciting, too. Any ideas regarding how to do this would be appreciated :-)

Thank you!
Brenda
RE: The ideas you will implement
11:13 AM EDT 10/13/09 as a reply to Brenda Hough.
Like Brenda, I also want to work on training for SWKLS Member Libraries. I feel like a lot of times we don't get the training out to the individual libraries in a timely fashion. A lot of time they have already had to figure something out before we have had a chance to train them. Part of this is because sometimes we as a system we aretoo busy, don't have enough bodies, or because of poor planning. I think training to our small libraires is especially vital because of small staff sizes. They definitely need to get the information quickly. I think if we make training less traditional this should help with some of the planning. I like Brenda's idea of a focus group. I think a Training Plan is also a great idea. A lot of times we think we know what our libraries want, but we don't always know best. We have done surveys before, but sometimes we don't also survey as well as we should and the answers aren't always what we need. I think an open group discussion might be the way to go. A lot of our libraries have also expressed that they really like to have training in small groups. I hope to continue that aspect as well. I also hope as a system we can get more screencasts out to our libraries to help with learning. That way we don't have to answer the same question all of the time and the libraries are able to get help when we are closed or not available.