SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARYSAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY

PARTNERSHIPS PROJECTPARTNERSHIPS PROJECT

THE PLAN:

1.Survey libraries for existing partnerships

2.Do a gap study

3.Make recommendations

4.Train

5.Celebrate

PROGRESS (Up to October Eureka Meeting)

• Had finished initial round of presentations,

• Had finished initial interviews, data collection.

• Reconsidering use of technology: wiki vs. database

• Waiting for grant funds to arrive

ROADBLOCK:

• Financial crisis hits

• City Government gets jitters; imposes spending barriers.

• Library must get Board of Supes and Mayor’s approval to expend grant money.

• Finance Dept. balks

PROGRESS:

• Chief of Main Library steps up.

• Everything repeated again, with “Whereas’” statements applied.

• Board of Supes approves.

ROADBLOCK:

• Mayor has to sign off for final approval.• Where’s the Mayor?

PROGRESS:

• Timeline keeps us on track

PROGRESS:

• Started outline of report to Administration• Started “Partnership Toolkit” training materials

PROGRESS:

• Finished database structure, w/ search features.

CURRENT STATUS• Grant hire to start on May 7th!

• Limited to 15 hours per week; won’t use all of grant money…about 2/3.

• Slow groundlaying… now it will go into high speed.