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Libraries create remarkable digital resources and launch innovative new services to better meet the changing needs of the communities they serve. For 10 years, Ithaka S+R has worked with librarians, as well as leaders in the academic and cultural sectors, to develop models for the ongoing support and success of similar projects. We are pleased to offer two workshops at UCLA’s Charles E. Young Research Library this March to help librarians ensure that the digital initiatives they spearhead continue to thrive and grow. Registration is now open for Introduction to Business Planning for Your Library and Finding and Keeping an Audience in a Competitive Environment.

These workshops are appropriate for individuals who are

  • Developing data management services
  • Running journal publication programs within a library
  • Creating digital resources
  • Designing maker spaces or digital media labs within a library
  • Managing institutional repositories
By taking key elements of business strategy from the commercial world and applying them to the specific context of the academic sectors, these workshops offer participants a way to apply best-practice skills to the innovative resources and services they have developed.

Introduction to Business Planning for Your Library
Where: Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles
When: Friday, March 11, 9:00 am- 4:00 pm

In this workshop participants learn what it takes to keep a digital resource or library service vibrant and relevant post launch or post grant funding. This involves defining a large impact goal for the resource and determining the activities needed to meet those goals. In brief, this workshop lays out both the need to plan for the future of the digital resource or service and how to determine what is involved.

During this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to use the tools of business strategy to strengthen the project and its sources of support.

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Finding and Keeping an Audience in a Competitive Environment
Where: Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles
When: Monday, March 14, 9:00 am- noon


While many of the resources and services libraries create are freely available, they still compete for the time and attention of your users. Through this workshop, we help participants articulate the value proposition, define the primary audience and potential secondary audiences, and determine which other resources might be serving the needs of diverse audiences.

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About the instructor:

Sarah Pickle is the assessment librarian at the Claremont Colleges Library. She came to this role after serving as the CLIR/DLF Social Science Data Curation Fellow at Penn State Libraries. Previously, Sarah was an analyst at Ithaka S+R where her research focused on the sustainability of digital resources and the efforts that academic and cultural heritage institutions have made to support digital scholarship. While at Ithaka S+R, Sarah was one of the principal organizers behind our semester-long course for digital project leaders. Prior to joining Ithaka S+R, she completed her PhD in comparative literature at Cornell University.


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