If you are interested in learning more about “roving” outside of the building check out this upcoming audio conference related to community outreach.
Conversations with Leaders Series: Making a Difference in the Community: In Conversation with Linda Cook (CEO, Edmonton Public Library, Chair of The Alberta Library and a founder of the Library Advocacy Now! program). The Edmonton Public Library has 17 community librarians whose job it is to stay out of the library and work with community organizations. In this interview, Cook shares tips and techniques from the library’s Community-Led Toolkit.
DATE: Tuesday, June 22, 2010. TIME: 2:00 pm ET. More info and registration at
Here’s something for those of you who are introducing Roving for the first time or perhaps want to refresh Roving with your staff, but haven’t been able to have one of our full workshops. I am pleased to provide this link for you to access a free web seminar about Roving which I presented through the auspices of the SirsiDynix Institute. In this 1 hour web seminar, entitled “Guide to Roving, an Essential Service for Library 2.0″, I shared some of the key tips and successful approaches I have found in my experiences with Library implementations of Roving over the past 5 years.
Follow this link:
http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/seminar_page.php?sid=97
(or go to http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com and click on event archives)
The date of the webinar was Dec. 11th, 2007