MAR-LI: Advocacy for Leaders
In a time of increased layoffs, budget cuts, unfunded mandates, and decreasing resources it remains essential for institutions to find ways to offer new services, answer increasing demands, renovate facilities, sponsor legislation, create new partnerships, and attract new funding.Advocacy for Leaders will present techniques that you can use to improve the success of your insitution. Join our conversation with a nationally recognized slate of speakers as they discuss their successes and challenges, including their tips and tricks of the trade.
Learn how they harness their passion and create successful advocacy strategies that result in advancing the interests of their organizations.
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Thursday, February 3, 2010
Listen to a nationally recognized slate of speakers discuss their successes and challenges, including their tips and tricks of the trade. Learn how they harness their passion and create successful advocacy strategies that result in advancing the interests of their organizations.Friday, February 4, 2010
Participants reconvene in small groups to generate ideas and strategies to apply to their own need(s) for advocacy. Each group will be lead by one of the previous day's speakers. Discussions will be case based and focus on topics of interest to library leadership: strategies to advocate in support of additional funds, new staff, the creation of a new service in a clinical setting, facility enhancements, contributions to an organization's strategic initiatives such as EHR, etc.Due to the generosity of Elsevier, there is no fee to register for this Institute.
About MAR-LI: Middle Atlantic Region Leadership Institute
The MAR Leadership Institute sponsors a combination of in person and online learning institutes to teach business, management, and leadership skills that will enhance participants' ability to advocate for themselves, their organizations and their profession with their institution's senior leadership, external funding agencies, government bodies, and user groups.This project has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM), Middle Atlantic Region through New York University under Contract No. NO1-LM-6-3501 (05-0864).
Project Partners include three chapters of the Medical Library Association: New York - New Jersey , Philadelphia , and Upstate New York and Ontario
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