Assessing & Managing Your Building
The appearance of your library heavily influences the way it is perceived in the community. While the staff and board members can often list the limitations of their library building; just as often familiarity can blind them to easily addressed problems regularly experienced by the users. If new construction is not in your near future that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make the most of what you have now. This workshop will provide practical information and tips on refreshing, redesigning, and remodeling your facility and space.
We’ll focus on:
• How to regain the users’ perception from streetscape to wayfinding and contemporary safety concerns .
• How to step back and re-examine and rethink your facility and space layout with an eye towards more effective, dynamic, customer-focused use.
• How to determine whether an extreme makeover or gentle updating is needed.
• How to assess of your building.
• How to develop an effective maintenance programs and communicate with users when a big project is underway.
Presented by Cheryl Bryan, author of ALA’s Managing Facilities for Results.
Free; registration is required.
- Date:
- Wednesday, May 25, 2016
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Presenter:
- Cheryl Bryan
- Location:
- Middletown Library Service Center, 786 South Main St., Middletown
- Categories:
- DLD Workshop
Event Accessibility for Guests with Disabilities
We want to provide what you need to participate!
If you require access services to participate fully, please use the Accommodation Request Form at least 7 days prior to the event.
If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact Gail Hurley at gail.hurley@ct.gov or (860) 704-2223.
You can also see our Library and Accessibility LibGuide for more information.
Registration Eligibility
To register for a DLD workshop or webinar, you must be one of the following:
- current library staff member
- undergraduate or graduate library student
- Friend or Board Member/Trustee*
- retired or unemployed library staff
Please contact Gail Hurley at gail.hurley@ct.gov or (860) 704-2223 with registration questions.
*Unless otherwise specified that a Friend or Board Member/Trustee is not eligible for a training or workshop.
Note: paid consultants are not eligible to attend DLD workshops or webinars.
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend a workshop you have registered for, please remember to cancel at least 3 days in advance so we can give your spot to someone else. You can cancel via the link in your confirmation email, or by contacting Gail Hurley gail.hurley@ct.gov | (860) 704-2222.
Those who miss (without cancelling) 3 events within a 6-month period will be placed on the waiting list when registering for future events. Be sure to sign in when you arrive for any workshop.
Inclement Weather Policy
For all in-person workshops offered by the CT State Library, Division of Library Development:
If the public schools in the town where the workshop is to be held close due to weather, the workshop will be canceled. If the schools have a delay, the workshop will go on as scheduled.
For the most up-to-date information, call us at 860-704-2200.
Continuing Education workshops and the professional development collection are funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Connecticut State Library.