July 9 CORE Leadership Team Meeting Notes

Attendees: Mike Taylor, Linda Hadden, Ginny Orvedahl, Margaret Marshall, Jennifer Pratt, Pam Jaskot, Mark Livingston

Enclosed are CORE Coalition Leadership Team (CCLT) meeting notes from the July 9 Strategy Review session at the State Library. The primary focus of the meeting was to update and revise the CORE One Page Strategy Map and Plan (original version was dated August 20, 2008).

We did this by first reviewing the Vision and Mission Statements at the top of the CORE One Page Strategy Map and Plan. We also reviewed the CORE Vision Story and discussed the desired impact that a coalition of like-minded libraries can have on communities and people served in eastern NC.

We then discussed several state-wide initiatives that could shape goals and action plans of the CCLT in fiscal year 2010 and beyond. Jennifer Pratt shared with us developments in the following areas:

• Development of a partnership between the State Library and WebJunction...potentially offering a low-cost solution for migrating CORE's "online community" building efforts and for providing online courses and learning programs for staff. WebJunction also offers the opportunity to make available the Advocacy Toolkit developed by Pam Jaskot and the Trustee Development Toolkit currently under development.
• Economic Stimulus Recovery Act funds may be available in a second round of grantsmanship late in 2009...funding may be available for broadband fiber connectivity projects and for energy cost savings projects. The NC Department of Energy currently offers services to audit energy use, plan for improvement, and may be able to help libraries secure funds to implement cost savings.
• Discussions regarding a potential State Library Catalog are taking place....this open source solution offers libraries the opportunity for improved service, reduced costs, easier maintenance, and quick changes to reflect local needs....more discussion to take place in August at the Resource Sharing Summit.

The CCLT then discussed priority initiatives for fiscal year 2010, including:

• The opportunity to combine elements from The Loyal Promoter Workshop and the "story-telling" exercises from the Advocacy Toolkit.
• The opportunity to promote and take advantage of a purchasing consortium based in Virgina called S.W.I.N.G. (SouthWest Information Network Group...http://swing.ehc.edu).
• The opportunity to partner with Tim Rogers and NC Live on development of digital audio library capability.
• The opportunity to promote C.O.R.E. at the 2009 NCLS Conference in October in Greensville.
• The opportunity for the CCLT to recruit new members and rotate them into leadership positions.
• The opportunity to support implementation of the C.O.R.E. Technology Plan (LSTA planning grant to be administered by the Perry Library and facilitated by Dr. Robert Burgin).

In September, we will meet with Robert Burgin to kick-off the Technology Plan, review the C.O.R.E. Strategy Map and Plan for 2010, and look at the design of marketing materials for the NCLA Conference (among other items).