The Challenges Ahead: Actions for Tough Economic Times
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Transportation Librarians Roundtable
11 December 2008
Today's Session:
"The Challenges Ahead: Actions for Tough Economic Times"
Roberto Sarmiento, Director, Northwestern University
Transportation Library
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The Challenges Ahead: Actions for Tough Economic Times
Three images of (1) people working in a library, (2) chart of
changing values of money, and (3) a patron working at a computer.
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The Current Fiscal Crisis and Its Impact on Transportation
Libraries
How can we -- individually and collectively -- best weather the
economic storm affecting each of us and our organizations?
How should we assess and address the existing and emerging fiscal
challenges?
Image of a sailor at the wheel of a ship looking toward the
waters ahead.
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Possible courses of action
Keep our colleagues in the transportation library community
informed of developments and concerns; in times of trouble, we should
lean on each other and provide support - moral as well as practical --
whenever possible
Image of two people on either side of a fence conversing.
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Possible courses of action
Share strategies and "best practices" on how to promote and
protect our libraries in the current financial climate.
Image of three people in a huddle strategizing.
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Possible courses of action
Mobilize and speak with one voice to write letters, e-mails,
testimonials, etc., supporting and defending each other.
Image of a microphone
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Possible courses of action
Identify and implement opportunities for collaboration in order
to more meaningfully leverage available resources.
Image of two people working together at a laptop
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Together We Can Make a Difference
Image of people holding hands around a lightbulb which symbolizes
a common ideal and action.
"At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved
seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If
you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold
anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without
organization."
A. Phillip Randolph
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