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Building Credibility & Value in the Municipal Environme - PowerPoint Presentation

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Building Credibility & Value in the Municipal Environme - PPT Presentation

Presented by Anne Marie Madziak SOLS OLA Super Conference February 2 2012 Value that is not valued is not valuable Rick Anderson writing about the future of Academic libraries ID: 241191

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Building Credibility & Value in the Municipal Environment

Presented by:

Anne Marie Madziak, SOLS

OLA Super Conference

February 2, 2012Slide2

“Value that is not valued is not valuable.”

Rick Anderson (writing about the future of Academic libraries)

Slide3

“We empower ourselves by discovering a positive way of being political. The line between positive and negative politics is a tightrope we have to walk.”

Peter Block Slide4

By legislation, library boards are:Slide5

Credibility:

The quality of being believed or trusted; convincingSlide6

Building credibility: Slide7

Sources of Power: Slide8

Sources of Power (cont’d): Slide9

Municipal environment: Slide10

Understanding politics:

“Politics is the realistic process of making decisions and allocating resources in a context of scarcity and divergent interests.”

Bolman

& Deal Slide11

Political Assumptions:Slide12

“In a world of chronic scarcity, diversity and conflict, the nimble manager has to walk a tightrope: developing a direction, building a base of support, and cobbling together working relations with both allies and opponents.”

Bolman

& Deal Slide13

Community focused: Slide14

Enormous pressures Slide15

Value:

Relative worth, merit or importance Slide16

Building VALUE in the municipal environment: Slide17

The last word …

“In

Haldimand

County, we encourage a culture of organizational cooperation. Libraries and municipalities are natural partners. We respect the Board’s legal autonomy, but recognize that we serve the same community and have compatible objectives. Wherever possible – in formulating budgets, in developing policies, or in delivering programs – we work together to provide value-added service to our customers.”

Don Boyle, CAO,

Haldimand

County