1. Spring 2012 Learning
Community
April 25, 2012

2. Introduction to Our Guest Speaker
Kate Nevins,
Chief Executive Officer,
LYRASIS

3. Caitlin Bakker Ghadeer Magdy Millie Gonzalez
Timothy Cherubini Jackie LaPlaca Ricords Laura Warren
Lisa Shores, Tim Hunter, and Brenda Almeyda

4. Project Updates
1. What progress have you made since our last
meeting?
2. What is the hardest obstacle that you've faced
since our last meeting?
3. What would you like to ask your learning
community colleagues to do in the time between
now and our next meeting to help you overcome
this obstacle?

5. Collaboration
Kate Nevins
April 24, 2012

6. Collaboration
“Library cooperation is
a contact sport”

7. What Is Collaboration?
• little c: people
• BIG C: ORGANIZATIONS

8. Why collaborate
• interdependence
• resources
• expertise
• power
• politics
• risk taking

9. Successful collaboration
• synergies
• expectations/goals
• communications
• more……..

10. Library Consortia
• geography
• library type
• programs

11. Why consortia
• interdependence
• resources
• expertise
• power
• politics
• risk taking

12. Changing Consortia Scene
• programs
• purpose
• membership
• funding
• sustainability
• resources
• technology

13. Consortia members
• ROI?
• why?
• how many?
• Overlap?

14. Questions:
• Collaborations that work?
• That don’t.
• New collaboration needs?
• Consortia decisions?

15. Contact Me:
Kate Nevins
800-999-8558 x4898
404-372-6510 (cell)
kate.nevins@lyrasis.org
www.LYRASIS.org

16. Our Next Meeting
Educational Technology