San Francisco Public Library Partnerships project

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San Francisco Public LibraryPartnerships project
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• THE PLAN
• Survey libraries for existing partnerships
• Do a gap study
• Make recommendations
• Train
• Celebrate

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• PROGRESS
• (Up to October Eureka Meeting)
• Had finished initial round of presentations,
• Had finished initial interviews, data
  collection.
• Reconsidering use of technology wiki vs.
  database
• Waiting for grant funds to arrive

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• ROADBLOCK
• Financial crisis hits
• City Government gets jitters imposes spending
  barriers.
• Library must get Board of Supes and Mayors
  approval to expend grant money.
• Finance Dept. balks

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• PROGRESS
• Chief of Main Library steps up.
• Everything repeated again, with Whereas
  statements applied.
• Board of Supes approves.

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• ROADBLOCK
• Mayor has to sign off for final approval.
• Wheres the Mayor?

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• PROGRESS
• Timeline keeps us on track

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• PROGRESS
• Started outline of report to Administration
• Started Partnership Toolkit training
  materials

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• PROGRESS
• Finished database structure, w/ search
  features.

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• CURRENT STATUS
• Grant hire to start on May 7th!
• Limited to 15 hours per week wont use all of
  grant moneyabout 2/3.
• Slow groundlaying now it will go into high
  speed.