1. LSTA - GRANTS CURRENT DATES January 14 – Announcement
Mid-February – Webcast
May 1 – Grants will be due
July 1 – Award letters

2. Statewide Reference Project Update
INTRO
Over the past several months, we have been creating a plan for rethinking and retooling the Statewide Reference model. Our plan has been built on past surveys and studies, and is designed to gather more data to complete our understanding of information usage, and to create a process that will help us truly innovate how we can best provide information services to our communities.
THE PLAN
STAGE 1
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
STAGE 4
STAGE 5
DEC-MARCH 2008
DATA COLLECTION
APRIL 2008
THINK TANK PREP
FALL 2008
THINK TANK
CLA 2008
STATEWIDE INPUT
END
BUILDING IT
ZOGBY polls to
understand how
Californians find
and use info.
Poll I via was
completed in
January 2008
Poll 2 link via library
websites statewide
to be completed in
March 2008.
Think Tank Creators
group to meet with
futurist facilitators to
design a statewide
reference think tank
process.
This group will also
look at all of the data
gathered relating to
statewide ref., and
develop new
combinations to help
the think tank be more
informed.
Participants from
across the state will
gather for 1 ½ days to
think about information
trends and data, and
create 3 scenarios for
what statewide ref.
could become.
Presentations at CLA
and other venues will
be given to share data
and the 3 scenarios.
Input from participants
will be gathered. They
will be asked to identify
what scenarios or pieces
of scenarios they think
would be most beneficial
to all.
A Builders Group will
be formed to analyze the
feedback from the input
sessions, and to develop
an action plan for creating
the new statewide
reference model.
NEXT STEP MAKING IT HAPPEN

3. More Statewide Input WEBCAST JANUARY 16, 2009 Presentation about
Statewide Information Services Project
Opportunity to vote for concepts that we
should pursue as next steps.

4. Next steps Develop an action plan for creating pilot projects
Builders Group
Review Scenarios
Analyze Input
Develop an action plan for creating pilot projects
Target date: by end of FY2009

5. Town Hall Meetings: Resource Sharing

6. Town Hall Meetings
Dates and Locations December 8:      San Jose Public Library: Martin Luther King, Jr. Library December 10:    Solano County: Fairfield Civic Center Library December 15:    Shasta Public Library: Redding January 6:            San Diego County Library January 7:            Burbank Public Library January 8:            Fresno County Public Library: Fowler Branch
January 15: Sacramento Public Library: South Natomas Branch