Register Now for September Town Meetings

The registration for September Town Meetings is now available in the CE catalog, http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/cgi-bin/cecat/.

This year's theme is Extreme Makeover @ Your Library:  You Can Do It!

In the morning, we will take a look at designing the library's physical space to make it even more inviting.  Secondly, we will consider the changing needs of our customers and what that means as far as "making over" our own attitudes and openness to changes. 

The afternoon sessions include:

Collection Development Makeover: Rethinking Buying and Weeding Patterns: The average library collection, regardless of size, follows the 80/20 pattern: 80% of circulation comes from 20% of the collection.  This session will talk about how to rethink what we purchase and weed to break this barrier and circulate more of our collections on a regular basis.

Library Merchandising:  Using ideas from both libraries and the retail industry, this workshop will address how to develop public libraries into more visually stimulating places.  Discussion will include what we know about how customers decide what to check out, why library displays are important and ideas for displays.

Making the Most of Your Library Web Site:  This session is for all libraries with Web sites.  Topics include publicizing your Web Site; adding content that keeps drawing the public to the Web site; thinking about the Web site as a "branch" library that is open 24/7.

Hope to see you all there!