[yscon] Advice for Making Big SRP Changes

Thu Jan 18 09:01:54 PST 2018

Hi Danielle,

Everyone pretty much covered everything and I'm late to the party. Here's my two cents...

ODL purchases bookmarks, posters, stickers, reading logs and certificates, manuals for all participating Oklahoma public and tribal libraries. They have to fill out a Survey Monkey form each year with their quantities and I send the file to Upstart who direct ships them to the libraries. We also pay for their CSLP membership. All of this is from IMLS/LSTA.

As for the Performers Showcase, the performers pay us to be in front of librarians. They have the option of 8 minutes ($100), or 4 minutes ($50) an info table and a listing in the Directory. For $35 they can have an Info table and a listing in the Directory. $25 is Directory Ad only. There is no cost for librarians to attend. We video conference the showcase to available libraries across Oklahoma. The reason we charge the performers is that they stand to make it back and then some with bookings. Librarians who are at the Showcase site are strongly encouraged to bring their calendars and start booking the performers then and there. The Showcase site is in Stillwater. It has an auditorium on the second floor, a smaller auditorium on the first floor which we put the Info tables, and room for lunch for everyone. It's centrally located but still librarians cannot always travel. We do not have video conference sites within one hour of Stillwater otherwise everyone would video conference and not attend in person. We are looking at switching from video conference to live streaming to reach school librarians who have an even worse time getting travel approval.

The money from the performers pays for lunch for all attendees and performers at the Showcase site, breakfast and afternoon snacks, and prize giveaway. The money is kept by the Oklahoma Library Association.

Adrienne Butler
Youth Services Consultant
Oklahoma Department of Libraries

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From: yscon [mailto:yscon-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Margarida, Danielle (DOA)
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 12:33 PM
To: YSCon Listserv (yscon at listsmart.osl.state.or.us)
Subject: [yscon] Advice for Making Big SRP Changes

Hi everyone,
        We currently support our statewide SRP by purchasing manuals, providing vouchers for the purchase of posters and reading logs, and by paying for each library (71 buildings) to have one children's performer and one teen performer. The whole process of selecting, booking, and paying the performers is a very convoluted process involving applications, a showcase, a booking meeting, and lots and lots of paperwork on my end. I've streamlined the process quite a bit over the past two years, but it is very time consuming and I'm doubtful of the impact it has on the summer reading program. Because we only pay $160 per program we do not get a variety of (nor high quality) performers willing to participate. Attendance numbers for these performances has been steadily declining, and every year I field complaints from directors regarding the performers that are selected. (Directors want performers that can draw/accommodate large crowds, but we can't get these types of performers because of the low $160 rate). The Youth Services Advisory Council is responsible for reviewing applications and selecting performers, however I am the middle man dealing with performers, helping libraries/performers book their programs, and maintaining a calendar of all performances throughout the state.
        I would really like to stop providing the performers showcase and paying for performers. It takes a lot of time to coordinate and prevents me from working on other projects that I think would be more meaningful (such as offering more training on summer learning, building more online SRP resources, etc.) And while I don't make the performer selections, it does appear that our agency is promoting a specific group of performers over another - something I'm not very comfortable with. This year I had to deal with an aggressive performer who was not selected, and we had to involve our legal department.
        All of this is to ask - do you have something you do to support SRP that works really well? I have supervisor support to discontinue the performers showcase, but I need to provide something in its place. I'm getting too wrapped up in my own head and would appreciate hearing what's working for you, or if you have experience in making a big change (the showcase is a decades old institution and I'm a bit nervous about the blowback!) I am planning on sending out surveys and holding a forum to gather input from librarians, too.

Thank you!

Also, we may already be getting an online reading program  through our partnership with our state's grade level reading campaign, so I'm looking for something other than providing a service like Wandoo Reader or Beanstack.

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Danielle Margarida, Youth Services Coordinator
Office of Library & Information Services
Rhode Island Department of Administration
One Capitol Hill | Providence, RI  02908-5803

401.574.9309 (voice) | 401.574.9320 (fax) | www.olis.ri.gov<http://www.olis.ri.gov/>

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