-
Director’s Thoughts – 11/15/2023
Since I’m in the throes of budget season, I’ve thought about little else for the past few months other than our library’s budget. So for today’s director’s thoughts – 11/15/2023, let’s learn about public library funding. I live and work in Pennsylvania, so most of this information pertains to public…
-
Director’s Thoughts – 11/4/2021
Just as I felt the tiniest of weight lifted off my (very) tired shoulders, our budget has to be approved by our Township Board of Supervisors. My library is a department of our local government, unlike a nonprofit library. And honestly, until the past couple of years, the budget season…
-
AtoZ Blogging Challenge – Budget
During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the 2017 Blogging from A to Z Challenge. For this year’s theme, I chose to look at leadership qualities as I’ve just recently (within the past 6 months) become the director of my public library. We have about 50 staff members,…
-
Federal Budget Cuts, or What Is the IMLS?
As I promised in a previous post, this is not a blog to become political, but it is a blog to be educated about library issues and this issue is too big to ignore. This post is longer than usual, but I really want people to understand what the IMLS…
-
Funding – A Never Ending Battle
With a fundraiser for our library happening on Saturday, finances, budgets and money has been on my mind, especially after receiving an email this morning inviting me to attend the National Library Legislative Day the weekend of May 3 – 5 in Washington DC to talk with representatives, senators and…
-
Weathering the Storm
As I was trolling other blogs that I try to keep up with, I found this inforgraphic that I felt the need to share. It was very relevant to me, I just finished a summer course in Public Budgeting and Finance where I was required to write an 8 –…
