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- Budget responsibilities -- Public Libraries
- Public Library Budgeting and Finance (from Iowa Public Library Director's Handook)
- Digital
Disaster Planning
http://www.ala.org/ala/pla/plapubs/technotes/disasterplanning.htm - Contents of a Disaster Plan (soliNET)
- Disaster Recovery Journal's Sample Disaster Recover Plans and Outlines
- Iowa Emergency Management
- Flood Recovery Booklet, from The Iowa Conservation & Preservation Consortium
- Salvage Procedures for Water Damaged Materials (Minnesota Historical Society)
- Create a Planned Giving Bequest for Your Library
- Introduction to Public Library Foundations (Wyoming State Library)
- Public Library Foundations in Missouri (article that also has general info about library foundations)
- Public Library Foundations in Iowa:
Ames Public Library Foundation
Bettendorf (IA)Library Fund Manual
Burlington Public Library Friends' Foundation
Cedar Rapids Library Foundation
Public Library of Des Moines Foundation
- Create a Planned Giving Bequest Program for Your Library
- A Donor's Bill of Rights
- The Foundation Center
- Grant opportunity resources (From Pacific Bell Knowledge Network)
- The Grantsmanship Center
- Grants Web
- Guide for Proposal Writing (National Science Foundation)
- Magazine of The Grantsmanship Center
- Michigan State University Funding Guides
- Pennies for Libraries (Friends and Foundations of California Libraries)
- Philanthropy Journal Online
- Resources for Nonprofit Organizations, Univ. of Wisconsin Grants Information Center
- STATE LIBRARY OF IOWA FUNDING RESOURCES List of state, local, and national funding sources, compiled by Judy Jones at the State Library of Iowa
- Intellectual Freedom and the Library Board (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook 2003)
Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook 2003
- 2003 Handbook (pdf)
- ALA Washington Office--Legislative Day Briefs
- ALA Washington Office Electronic Newsline
- Children's Internet Protection Act (pdf file)
- Iowa Open Meetings / Open Records Law
- Orientation / Board Manual -- Suggestions for content
- elaws Advisors (Employment laws assistance for workers & small business)
- Evaluating the Library Director (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook 2003)
- Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Hiring the Library Director (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook 2003)
- Iowa Workforce Development
- Public Library Salary Surveys - West North Central States
- Sample Job Descriptions (from Montana State Library)
- Sample Library Job Descriptions (from Connecticut State Library)
- Working With the Library Director (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook 2003)
- Library Research Service (Sample Long Range Plans)
- Planning for Results (from Public Library Association's page)
- Planning for Results: Sample Plans from Libraries:
Plain City Public Library 2000; a Community Planning Process
St. Charles City-County Library District (This includes summaries from
public forums on the service responses; SWOT, etc.; gives insight into
the process itself) - Planning for the Library's Future (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook 2003)
- Acceptable Use policies (L. Champelli) includes links to sample policies of public and school policies
- Boulder (CO) Public Library policies
(Scroll down to "Policies and Rules")
http://www.boulder.lib.co.us/general - Guidelines for handling
medical and legal reference questions (Nebraska Library Commission)
http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/ref/star/chapter9.html#c9b - Policy Development (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook 2003)
- The Small Library Committee of the Wisconsin Association of Public Librarians; sample
policies for small public
libraries on the OWLS site;
http://www.owls.lib.wi.us/info/3ps/policies/sample_policies.htm - The State Library of Ohio's sample policies from Ohio libraries:
http://winslo.state.oh.us/publib/policies.html
Internet and Computer
- Computer Policy & Law Computer Policy Collection--from Cornell; primarily academic and corporate policy
- Budget responsibilities -- Public Libraries
- Evaluating the Library Director ((see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook 2003)
- Hiring the Library Director (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook 2003)
- Policy Development (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook 2003)
- Public Library Budgeting and Finance (from Iowa Public Library Director's Handook)
- Roles & Responsibilities in administration of a public library
- Trustee Job Description (see Iowa Library Trustee's Handbook 2003)
- Access Plus
- 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 - EBSCO
- In Service to Iowa ("Standards")
- Open Access
- SILO Locator (Iowa's Card Catalog)
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