Public Library Association Results Boot Camp: An Immersion Program

Get your library in strategic shape and prepare to meet any challenge with the intensive and interactive PLA Boot Camp program led by Sandra Nelson and June Garcia. This popular public library course offers four and a half days of management training built around dynamic individual and group activities. Sandra and June will lead participants through an engaging and challenging curriculum that emphasizes the roles of innovation, risk, and change in public library management; the impact of trends on local service priorities; the value of data-based decision-making; and the skills to effectively allocate resources.

 

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of the four and a half day workshop, participants will know how to:

• Create a library environment that supports risk and innovation

• Understand and respond to ongoing changes in the external environment

• Develop goals and objectives that reflect local service priorities

• Identify and select effective activities that respond to service priorities

• Identify current staff workload and skills and determine the requirements to accomplish your selected activities

• Allocate collection, technology, and facilities resources to support library activities