The Complete Library Trustee Handbook

by Jillian Kalonick, Sally Gardner Reed

Overview

Give your trustees the tools needed to translate their experiences and interests into strong results on behalf of their libraries. Current executive director of the Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations (ALTAFF) and former public library director Sally Gardner Reed draws on her years of success leading Friends of Libraries USA to provide trustees with straightforward, easy-to-read guidance on how to make the most of their vital role. She guides readers through important issues, including sustainable fundraising and advocacy, hiring and evaluating a library director, strategic planning, director-trustee collaboration, and policy development.

Readers of The Complete Library Trustee Handbook will be brought up to speed on optimizing board effectiveness, board ethics issues, conflicts of interests, and efficient meeting management, and a chapter on key issues for libraries addresses intellectual freedom, user privacy, pay equity for library workers, privatization of public libraries, and funding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555706876
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	02/22/2010
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.33(d)

Editorial Reviews

Useful for any trustee—and especially any new trustee—this handbook covers the basics (fund-raising and advocacy, relationship between the board and the director, strategic planning) in a clear and straightforward fashion. And one would expect no less from the executive director (Reed) and the marketing/ public relations specialist (Kalonick) of ALTAFF. While attention is given to successful boards, it would have been useful to get advice on how to transform underperforming boards, from the divisive to the disengaged to the micromanaging. Reed and Kalonick must have great stories to tell as well as individuals to interview. More varied content, different points of view, and fresh voices would have transformed a useful reference book into a must-have for trustees. What's puzzling is why this is being published and not just distributed as a PDF as a benefit of ALTAFF membership.—BK

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