Please excuse the cross posting. Libraries face critical challenges in the 21st century. Librarians must actively engage in dialog with their communities about the library's role. And, librarians need to tell compelling stories and back those stories up with solid data. To do that , librarians must make a major culture shift and become more purposeful in gathering, analyzing, and using data for decision making, strategic planning, and proving library impact. Join Susan Preece, Director of the Topsham (ME) Public Library, as she reprises her CMLD Fall Council presentation on the why, what and how of using data to tell your library's story. Susan has been engaged in some very interesting community outreach around funding the library of the 21st century and will share what she's been doing and some of the results. To register, visit the statewide CE calendar at: http://evanced.info/maine/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=3337&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=1/1/2016&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=<http://evanced.info/maine/evanced/eventsignup.asp?ID=3337&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=1/1/2016&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp> Registration will be open until 5pm on January 27th. We will record this webinar and make it available to all who have registered. Stephanie
