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ALA
Special Presidential Committee
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Community Partnerships
Initiative
  How do partnerships work?
 
 


 

The section "What are community partnerships?" defined what partnerships are and what makes successful partnerships. Ensuring that the nine elements of successful partnership are in place can only be done by local group participants, however, the links under each of the nine elements below provide documents to assist partners. 

Successful partnerships:

  • Marketing themselves
  • Have an organization or a structure to them 
  • Sample structures, stakeholder suggestions 
    • Public libraries
    • Academic libraries
    • Special libraries
    • School libraries
    • Workforce environments
    • Employees
    • Employers
    • Corporate/ Profit Sector
    • Related non profit
    • Social service entities
    • Governing/ governance
    • Educational environments
    Sample committee/group structure forms
    Sample budgets
  • Budget 1- no money
  • Budget 2- in-kind contributions and some money
  • Budget 3- healthy resources
  • budget 4- significant resources
  • Funding opportunities
  • Have a vision, mission, and goals 
  • Sample vision, mission and goal statements from The University of Connecticut Libraries
  • Are designed to change as issues evolve and problems are solved 
  • Evaluation of process plan of action
    Problem solving model 
    Group dynamics information
  • Find ways to involve people face-to-face but make maximum use of emerging and existing technologies 
  • Facilitation guides
    Group process guides
    "Good" meeting guidelines with sample agendas, note-taking  forms
    E-list recommendations
    Website recommendations
    Suggestions for facilities
  • Build in a sustained maximum activity and involvement by stakeholders and other participants 
  • Sample group member job descriptions
    Sample "to do"/activity lists for "homework"
  • Provide necessary plans such as business plans, marketing plans and communication plans 
  • Swiss cheese business plan
    Swiss cheese marketing plan
    Sample communication plan
    Recommended group process timelines
  • Promise and produce a product or results which benefits all group/process members 
  • Master list of IL-citizens benefit statements
    Competency statements
    Links to related economic development information
  • Design an active and interactive initial learning period and maintain ongoing learning for stakeholders and participants
    • Sample continuous learning plan for group members
      Recommended tutorials/quizzes for IL assessment
      Recommended learning strategies for stakeholders and other group participants
  • Establish and maintain effective communication and ongoing dialog 
  • Sample communications plan
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