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Mission Not-So Impossible
This blog post will not self-destruct in five seconds. When I dove into the internet pool to find a good definition of a mission statement, the one I liked best was Wikipedia’s. #irony A mission statement is a short statement of why an organization exists, what its overall goal is, the goal of its operations;…
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A Little Recognition Can Go a Long Way!
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” ~ Aesop For many libraries in Pennsylvania, and indeed around the country, volunteers are the lifeblood of our organizations. They are our community of tireless, unpaid, dedicated workers that make much of the daily work we do possible. They fulfil many of the roles…
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Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Library Services Bus
“Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities.” – R. David Lankes, Director of the School of Library & Information Science, University of South Carolina “If you build it, he will come.” Any person of a certain age will recognize this quote from “Field of Dreams” (1989) starring Kevin Costner. His…