ACLB BOARD

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OFFICERS

Betsy McIlvaine

Brookfield

President

Shani Burke-Specht

Bethel

Vice President

Lynn Norton

Colchester

Secretary

Carole Stroud

South Windsor

Treasurer

MEMBERS

Bonita Hansen
Canton

Suzanne Lee

Guilford

A. James Roy
Bristol

Mary Engels

Ct State Library

Louise Brundage

Friends of CT Libraries

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The Association of Connecticut Library Boards
in partnership with the Connecticut State Library
 

2011 Trustee Leadership Conference:  Preparing your Board for the Future

 November 10, 2011

at Rensselaer Hartford

275 Windsor Avenue, Hartford, CT

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 Registration and Details

9:15 a.m.  Coffee and Continental Breakfast.  Registration begins.

10:00 a.m.  Welcome from Betsy McIlvaine, President of ACLB and

                                                     Kendall Wiggin, Connecticut State Librarian

   Library Advocacy: The Economic Impact of Today's Public Library

  John Arnold, library advocate and software entrepreneur

In this presentation and discussion, we will investigate ways of demonstrating the economic, financial, and community impact of libraries.  Special attention is given to speaking in terms that other leaders in the community can understand and support. The presentation is intended to give every Trustee some immediately useful tools and strategies for becoming more effective advocates for public support of libraries.

11:30 a.m.  Break-out Sessions

·         Trustees and Friends: Working Together

The good relationship between Trustees and Friends is important.  Members of the Avon and Norwalk Public Libraries’ Friends and Board will discuss the ways that they work together to improve library services to their communities. 

·         Floods, Fires and Tornadoes:  Planning for Disaster

Kathleen Craughwell-Varda, Manager of Conservation ConneCTion, will discuss the need for libraries to be well prepared in case of natural disaster.  Attendees will learn the basic elements for such a plan and how it can assist libraries in a disaster.  Conservation ConneCTion is an IMLS funded program based at the Connecticut State Library which provides training and resources to libraries and museums in caring for their collections and protecting those collections in the event of a disaster.

·         Library Board Basics

This session is targeted at library directors and trustees interested in a refresher on the basics of good board governance and practice. Presenting will be Shani Burke-Specht, past Chairman, Bethel Public Library Board of Directors; Betsy McIlvaine, Brookfield Library Board of Trustees member; and Sharon Brettschneider, Director of Library Development, Connecticut State Library.

12:30   Buffet luncheon and networking opportunity (included in registration fee)

1:15p.m.

·                 Balancing Increased Demands in a Time of Fiscal Uncertainty

Bruce Crocco, Vice President for Library Services of the Americas for OCLC, will discuss Perceptions of Libraries, 2010:  Context and Community OCLC’s newest report that chronicles the perceptions and practices of today’s information consumer. 

2:30 p.m.  Wrap Up

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