Library Trustees

Advocacy   Associations   Budget and Finance    Disaster Planning   Foundations
Friends    Intellectual Freedom    Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook
Grants and Fundraising      Legislation     Meetings     Personnel    Planning
Policies       Responsibilities       Statewide Library Programs    Trusteeship

Advocacy

• Libraries for the Future
  

Associations

• Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends, and Foundations

Budget and Finance

• Budget responsibilities -- Public Libraries
• Public Library Budgeting and Finance (from Iowa Public Library Director's Handook)

Disaster Planning

• Disaster Response: Annotatoed Bibliography (ALA)

• Contents of a Disaster Plan (soliNET)
• Disaster Recovery Journal's Sample Disaster Recover Plans and Outlines
• Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management
• Flood Recovery Booklet, from The Iowa Conservation & Preservation Consortium

Foundations

• Wyoming Library Foundations Newsletter (Wyoming State Library)
• Some Public Library Foundations in Iowa:

Ames Public Library Friends Foundation
Burlington Public Library Friends and Foundation
Cedar Rapids Library Foundation
Des Moines Public Library Foundation

Friends Groups

• FOLUSA--Friend of Libraries USA  (merged with ALTAFF--see below)
• Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends, and Foundations

Grants and Fundraising

• Association of Funding Professionals'  Donor Bill of Rights
• The Foundation Center
• Grant opportunity resources (From AT&T Education)
• The Grantsmanship Center
• Grants Web
• Guide for Proposal Writing (National Science Foundation)
• Magazine of The Grantsmanship Center
• Michigan State University' Grants and Related Resources
• Philanthropy Journal Online
• Funding Resources--State Library of Iowa

Intellectual Freedom

• Intellectual Freedom and the Library Board (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook)

Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook

• 2009 Handbook (pdf)

Legislation

• ALA Washington Office
• Iowa Library Association--Legislative News

Meetings

• Iowa Open Meetings / Open Records Law (Attorney General's Office)
• Open Meetings Law (pdf)
• Public Records Law (pdf)

Personnel

• elaws Advisors   (Employment laws assistance for workers & small business)
• Evaluating the Library Director (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook )
• Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) 
• Hiring the Library Director (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook)
• Iowa Workforce Development
• Library Salaries Information (ALA)
• Sample Job Descriptions (from Maine State Library)
• Sample Job Descriptions (from Montana State Library)
• Sample Library Job Descriptions from Connecticut Libaries (on WebJunction)    
• Working With the Library Director (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook)

Planning

• New Planning for Results; Developing a Strategic Plan (New Jersey State Library)
• Planning for Results: Sample Plans from Libraries: 
  •  DeKalb County Public Library Strategic Plan
• Planning for the Library's Future (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook )

Policies

• Sample Policies from Iowa Libraries
• Guidelines for Medical, Legal and Business Responses
• Policy Development (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook)
• Sample Policies for the Small Public Library  (Owlsweb)

Responsibilities

• Budget responsibilities -- Public Libraries
• Evaluating the Library Director ((see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook)
• Hiring the Library Director (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook)
• Policy Development (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook 2003)
• Public Library Budgeting and Finance (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook)
• Job Description for Public Library Trustees

Statewide Library Programs

• Access Plus (now known as ILL Reimbursement)
• Accreditation of Libraries
• Certification of Librarians
• Direct State Aid to Public Libraries (previously known as Enrich Iowa)
     Explanation of Tier 1 Standards
     Explanation of Tier 2 Standards
• EBSCOhost
• Enrich Iowa
• ILL Reimbursement (formerly known as Access Plus)
• In Service to Iowa ("Standards")
• Open Access
• Iowa Locator (Iowa's Card Catalog)

Trusteeship

• Job Description for Public Library Trustees
• Trustee Trouble videos (orientation, trustee responsibilities)  Each public library in Iowa received videos from Library Service Areas/Iowa Library Trustee Association.  If you need a copy, contact your Library Service Area.
  

Iowa Library Service Districts