Maximizing Community Information Resources 2004-2005 Collaborative Grant Project

The project goal is to increase community use of information resources across the participating institutional libraries.

Strategies:

* identify community information needs in the greater Plattsburgh area
* bring together library directors and community resource organizational leaders
* strengthen the human information network through a series of inter-institutional resource highlight workshops/tours hosted by area libraries.

Holly Heller-Ross,  Associate Librarian, Plattsburgh State University, Project Director
Cerise Oberman, Dean of Library and Information Services, Plattsburgh State University, Project Leader for Community Information Needs Assessment
Mary Brown, Library Director, Clinton Essex Franklin Library System, Project Leader for Inter-Institutional Resource Workshops

Funding: SUNY Network Quality Communities: Building North Country Community Partnerships 

Events

June 2004: Community Information Needs Brainstorming Session

October 2004: Feinberg Library Tour and Lunch

December 2004: Clinton Essex Franklin Library System & Plattsburgh Public Library Tour and Lunch

April 2005: CVPH Medical Center Library Tour and Lunch

May 2005: Douglas Library Tour and Lunch

June 2005: Supreme Court Law Library Tour and Lunch

Resources

Library Resources Demo Database

Maintained by Holly Heller-Ross, MLS holly.hellerross@plattsburgh.edu