http://vickysteeves.com/enThu, 20 Apr 2017 20:53:42 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://vickysteeves.com/blog/library-advocacy/Vicky Steeves<div><p><a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/library-advocacy/">See original posting here.</a></p> <p>Everyone reading my posts must be saying, “Damn, this girl is obsessed with proving the value of the library! We get it already!” Blame <a href="http://www.simmons.edu/slis/faculty/fulltime/matarazzo.php">Jim Matarazzo</a>, my corporate libraries professor back at <a href="http://www.simmons.edu/slis/">Simmons</a>. He really drilled it into my head that if a library can’t prove that it’s worth having, it will be the first thing cut from a budget. And it scared me into constantly thinking about it. Thanks, Jim!</p> <p><a href="http://ndsr.nycdigital.org/prove-yourself-needs-assessment-edition/">In my last NDSR-NY post</a>, I described how the needs assessment survey can be utilized to show value on an institutional level, in the setting of meetings with business operatives and institutional leaders. In my <a href="http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/11/the-value-of-the-ndsr-residents-and-mentors-weigh-in/">blog post for the SIGNAL</a>, I wrote about how programs like NDSR can prove their value on an interdisciplinary level as well as to the LIS field.</p><p><a href="http://vickysteeves.com/blog/library-advocacy/">Read more…</a> (3 min remaining to read)</p></div>advocacyndsrhttp://vickysteeves.com/blog/library-advocacy/Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:08:25 GMT