SWAN Board,
Just thought I would share Dee's blog post "The Value of Consortial Membership"
http://www.railslibraries.info/director-blog/20140109/value-consortial-memb…
I have heard this has stirred up some directors, two stand-alone libraries specifically. Anne Kozak left a great comment!
Aaron
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Hello all,
I will be sending you an Outlook invite shortly for the new Board meeting, which was rescheduled to Thursday, February 6th. This was the best date option, since only one person marked that they could not attend that day.
Thank you!
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Hi Brande,
Is the last week of January is out of the question?
Rich
Sent from my iPad
> On Jan 8, 2014, at 5:19 PM, "Brande Redfield" <brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
> SWAN Board:
>
> We’ve just finished our last day of our two-day ILS Committee final scoring meeting. However, due to the inclement weather and our heater being out at Burr Ridge, our day one (yesterday) was cancelled, and we were not able to complete our scoring to come to a recommendation. The only day coming up that the committee could meet to complete scoring is next Friday, January 17th, which of course is the day of the SWAN Board meeting. Melissa was in attendance at today’s ILS meeting, and after group discussion it was decided that it would be best for the committee to reach a consensus on scoring so that they could come to you with a recommendation before the negotiation takes place, currently scheduled for February 10th and 11th.
>
> Therefore, it is necessary to cancel next Friday’s Board meeting and reschedule a special Board meeting for later, but hold it prior to the negotiations. The week of February 3rd would be optimal. I’ve included a link to a Doodle poll below; when you get a moment, please respond to the poll with your availability for the days that week.
>
>
> http://www.doodle.com/3z5evieqfg9cnwyy
>
> Thank you so much for your understanding as we work around the weather issues to complete our recommendation! Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Brande Redfield
> SWAN Office Manager
> 125 Tower Drive
> Burr Ridge, IL 60527
> Phone: 630.734.5164
> Fax: 630.734.5056
> brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
> http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Board:
We've just finished our last day of our two-day ILS Committee final scoring meeting. However, due to the inclement weather and our heater being out at Burr Ridge, our day one (yesterday) was cancelled, and we were not able to complete our scoring to come to a recommendation. The only day coming up that the committee could meet to complete scoring is next Friday, January 17th, which of course is the day of the SWAN Board meeting. Melissa was in attendance at today's ILS meeting, and after group discussion it was decided that it would be best for the committee to reach a consensus on scoring so that they could come to you with a recommendation before the negotiation takes place, currently scheduled for February 10th and 11th.
Therefore, it is necessary to cancel next Friday's Board meeting and reschedule a special Board meeting for later, but hold it prior to the negotiations. The week of February 3rd would be optimal. I've included a link to a Doodle poll below; when you get a moment, please respond to the poll with your availability for the days that week.
http://www.doodle.com/3z5evieqfg9cnwyy
Thank you so much for your understanding as we work around the weather issues to complete our recommendation! Please let me know if you have any questions.
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Sorry, guys. I forgot to include you all in my response to Aaron. Being on
vacation fries your brain, I guess.
Rodger Brayden
Director, Forest Park Public Library
708-366-7171, Ext. 102
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rodger Brayden <rbrayden(a)fppl.org>
Date: Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [SWANboard] Tribune Article on Orland Increases
To: Aaron Skog <aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info>
Can you spell "selfish?" Or would "self absorbed" be better? Actually, this
sounds a lot like a library finding a dog to kick when things go badly. I
would think Orland would have a better appreciation of the meaning of
unjustified criticism than this article seems to indicate.
On the practical note, I think a letter from a "big library" director like
David would be very useful in counteracting the impression that only small
libraries can benefit from being in a consortium.
Rodger Brayden
Director, Forest Park Public Library
708-366-7171, Ext. 102
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Aaron Skog <aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info
> wrote:
> SWAN Board:
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>
>
> In case some of you have missed the article, I thought I would share with
> you the Chicago Tribune article which noted the large increase in
> circulation.
>
>
>
>
> http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-22/news/ct-orland-park-library-c…
>
>
>
> SWAN of course was mentioned in it, negatively of course. They cannot
> resist that.
>
>
>
> The RAILS Leadership team felt that it portrayed consortium in a bad
> light, so Dee suggested she write a letter to the editor about the topic of
> resource sharing. I offered to help with the letter. Dee also was thinking
> that it would be good to have a letter from a SWAN library director. Any
> thoughts on if a letter should be sent or if we should approach a library
> director. Dee was thinking of David Seleb, mostly because of a large public
> library joining SWAN.
>
>
>
> Aaron Skog
> SWAN Executive Director
> 125 Tower Drive
> Burr Ridge, IL 60527
> Phone: 630.734.5122
> Fax: 630.734.5056
> aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info
> http://support.swanlibraries.net
>
SWAN Board:
In case some of you have missed the article, I thought I would share with you the Chicago Tribune article which noted the large increase in circulation.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-22/news/ct-orland-park-library-c…
SWAN of course was mentioned in it, negatively of course. They cannot resist that.
The RAILS Leadership team felt that it portrayed consortium in a bad light, so Dee suggested she write a letter to the editor about the topic of resource sharing. I offered to help with the letter. Dee also was thinking that it would be good to have a letter from a SWAN library director. Any thoughts on if a letter should be sent or if we should approach a library director. Dee was thinking of David Seleb, mostly because of a large public library joining SWAN.
Aaron Skog
SWAN Executive Director
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5122
Fax: 630.734.5056
aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
Hi Aaron,
I saw the article and of course it had to bash Swan. I thought of what you said about EHS seeing a spike in circ at first and now seeing it drop.
I think a letter from Dee would be great and something from David about why it was important for OPS to rejoin the consortium would be the right way to go. Going negative against ORS would be fun, but wouldn't serve our purpose.
Just my thoughts.
Rich
Sent from my iPad
> On Dec 27, 2013, at 11:11 AM, "Aaron Skog" <aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
> SWAN Board:
>
> In case some of you have missed the article, I thought I would share with you the Chicago Tribune article which noted the large increase in circulation.
>
> http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-12-22/news/ct-orland-park-library-c…
>
> SWAN of course was mentioned in it, negatively of course. They cannot resist that.
>
> The RAILS Leadership team felt that it portrayed consortium in a bad light, so Dee suggested she write a letter to the editor about the topic of resource sharing. I offered to help with the letter. Dee also was thinking that it would be good to have a letter from a SWAN library director. Any thoughts on if a letter should be sent or if we should approach a library director. Dee was thinking of David Seleb, mostly because of a large public library joining SWAN.
>
> Aaron Skog
> SWAN Executive Director
> 125 Tower Drive
> Burr Ridge, IL 60527
> Phone: 630.734.5122
> Fax: 630.734.5056
> aaron.skog(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:aaron.skog@railslibraries.info>
> http://support.swanlibraries.net
Hello SWAN Board:
Rodger kindly noted that the audit document in the packet did not combine in Adobe properly, and some pages were left mostly blank. I am sending the document out attached to this email while I work to hopefully get it combined in its entirety and reposted to the SWAN site. Please use the copy attached for your review in the meantime.
Thank you,
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
SWAN Board Members:
The Friday 12/13 meeting packet is now available for you - http://support.swanlibraries.net/sites/default/files/meeting/2013-12-13/pac…
This packet is 95 pages long. We will have a quorum for the meeting, based upon your email responses. We are hopeful that this meeting will end before noon so that no lunch will need to be provided; however, based upon where we are at in early afternoon I can certainly order lunch if needed.
We look forward to seeing you Friday!
Brande Redfield
SWAN Office Manager
125 Tower Drive
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: 630.734.5164
Fax: 630.734.5056
brande.redfield(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:brande.redfield@railslibraries.info>
http://support.swanlibraries.net
