I sat through the keynote by Patricia Martin on how libraries an create partnerships with companies to market services through sponsorships. This was actually more interesting to me than I expected as the Aurora Public Library board currently has a committee investigating “alternative funding sources.” I’ll be passing her PPT along to the chair of the committee along with checking to see if APL has (or will purchase) Patricia’s book Made Possible By: Succeeding Trough Sponsorships, A Guide for Nonprofits.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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