Scenario I

Idea and Design

Pat returned from ALA's IL Community Partnerships Assembly excited about the prospect of bringing a partnership process to her city. She began by making of list of librarians in her area that she had worked with on other projects and knew that her friend James, a school librarian, had worked with several others in higher education and could recommend additional names. 

Pat blocked out times in meeting room at the community center, chose three possible planning meeting dates, created an email list of names and addresses she had gathered and sent out an "invitation to discuss" to the area librarians. She included the ALA IL Community Partnerships URL in her email and attached several of the discussion threads that began to appear on the Assembly electronic list immediately following the assembly. She also recommended that the email group visit several additional sites linked from the Partnerships website and created a draft agenda with James. 

Prior to the meeting, she printed off documents from the website, monitored the IL Community Partnership e-list to see other groups forming and began to people/groups (local city and county staff, the hospital and health care groups, local service organizations and employers) who she felt should be in the group that would be the steering committee or formal planning group.