[Publib] Librarian Talents - Profits vs. Statistics

[Robert L. Balliot]

Greetings Dean,

 

The part of your statement that is correct is that they "don't know how a
library might

be useful to them".   They don't  know. 

 

One of the projects I worked on bringing into the public library system is
the MIT <http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu/> 

Enterprise Forum <http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu/> .  There are similar
programs for entrepreneurs affiliated with

other Universities around the US.  Brown University
<http://www.brownep.org/>  recently started one that

emulates MIT.  

 

I was able to arrange for the MIT
<http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu/network/broadcasts/200709/index.html>
broadcast to be hosted at a local library. There

are some logistical considerations that need to be met - high speed network

access, projector, audio, good parking, and a large meeting room.  Area
alumni and other interested

parties show up for the seminars and discussions that are world class.  The
forum

attracts some of the brightest and most creative minds and can associate

the public library as a destination for doctors, lawyers, and business
people

that is useful to them.

 

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Robert L. Balliot

1-401-441-5763

Skype: RBalliot

Bristol, Rhode Island

http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm

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From: Corner, Dean [mailto:Dean.Corner at maine.gov] 
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 10:39 AM
To: rballiot at oceanstatelibrarian.com; bookbitch at yahoo.com;
Publib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Publib] Librarian Talents - Profits vs. Statistics

 

Actually, it is because most doctors, lawyers and businesspeople rarely use
libraries because they either don't have the time or don't know how a
library might be useful to them and their clientele.  You may wish to state
that the cause of the latter is "organizational impotency" but, for those
libraries that spend a great deal of time reaching out to these professions,
it is more likely professional arrogance.  It runs across many professions,
it seems.

 

 

 

Dean Corner

 

Director of Reader and Information Services

Maine State Library

64 State House Station

Augusta, ME 04333-0064

207-287-5604

207-287-5615 fax

 

 

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