Richard Dougherty, emeritus professor of the Univ of Michigan School of Information offers a Prescription for Financial Recovery in the recent issue of American Libraries. While the budget crisis has prompted many library directors to retrench, others have used it as a progressive opportunity to:
- Re-engage stakeholders
- Tell the library’s story
- Introduce new services to demonstrate value to the public
- Weed out poor performers
- Eliminate or reduce redundancy
These are stressful and discouraging times for public libraries, to be sure. Can they also be times of innovation, rejuvenation and rebirth?
