TAR: Interview Public Library Director

["dtissair@snet.net" <dtissair@SNET.NET>]

Dear Wise Ones:

I have an interview on Tuesday to become the Director of a small town (pop.
7500) public library (26,000 vol.) near here.  I know that this was
recently discussed here but would appreciate any help with preparation you
can give.

The town is home to one of the best Middle-High School LMC's in the state
and borders a small city (pop. 42,000)that is home to a top flight private
university.  The last Director supervised a doubling of space and the
automation of the collection into a regional cooperative.  Our state is in
the process of issuing statewide single bar code cards and has just
developed a set of web accessible databases (an internet library) available
to anyone with a library card.  I have already signed on for the next
available training session on the internet library and am very comfortable
with all the inter-library opportunities available.

What I need help with is ideas for programing that will bring the public to
MY library rather than driving several miles to the larger city library.  I
have already had a telephone interview with one of the trustees, so I know
that this is a big thing with them.  The library has a small private
endowment, but gets most of its operating budget from a town of fiscally
very conservative taxpayers, who have been known to regularly vote against
anything they see as unnecessary.  Due to budget constraints the library is
only open Tuesday-Saturday and the Director is only scheduled 30 hours a
week, so it is also important to me to make the library an indispensable
part of the community.  The trustees want the library open more with a
full-time Director and staff.  They want someone to help continue the
growth the library has been making in the last four years.  I know that I
can do this job but I need some of your ideas to get it.

TIA

Dorothy E. Tissair, M.L.S.
Library Media Specialist

Old Saybrook, CT  06475

dtissair@snet.net

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