Publications and Further Resources
Publications
"Assessing Your Library’s Physical Message"
The PLA Reader for Public Library Directors and Managers, ed. By Kathleen Hughes. Neal Schuman Publishers, 2009.
Managing Facilities for Results: Optimizing Space for Services, ALA, 2007.
Goffstown (NH) Building Program
"The Future of Libraries: It's up to Us" by Cheryl Bryan, New England Libraries, Vol. 2, No. 3: April 2006
"Assessing Your Library’s Physical Message"
The PLA Reader for Public Library Directors and Managers, ed. By Kathleen Hughes. Neal Schuman Publishers, 2009.
Managing Facilities for Results: Optimizing Space for Services, ALA, 2007.
Goffstown (NH) Building Program
"The Future of Libraries: It's up to Us" by Cheryl Bryan, New England Libraries, Vol. 2, No. 3: April 2006
Planning Resources
Long Range Planning Resources Community Information and Data
CPLA Facilities Planning and Maintaining Buildings
Evaluation
The Future of Libraries and Information Services
Library Data
Planning Forms
Sample Plans
Long Range Planning Resources Community Information and Data
- Mass Gov Portal
- National Center for Education Statistics (school district data)
- United States Census Bureau
- Zip Skinny
CPLA Facilities Planning and Maintaining Buildings
- Executive Summary
- Web-based Space Planning Resources
- Facilites Manager Job Description
- American with Disabilities Act (ADA) Requirements
- Sample Homework Center Project Planning
Evaluation
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (Showing the Difference We Make: Outcome Evaluation in Libraries and Museums )
- Southern Ontario Library Service (The Library's Contribution to Your Community: A Resource Manual for Libraries to Document their Social and Economic Contribution to the Local Community).
- University of Michigan and the University of Washington (How Libraries and Librarians Help – Putting Outcome Evaluation in Context: A Toolkit)
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation (W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook).
The Future of Libraries and Information Services
- Long Overdue: A Fresh Look at Public and Leadership Attitudes About Libraries in the 21st Century
- 2010 Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources
- 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition
- Reading at Risk (National Endowment for the Arts)
- The Continuing Evolution of the Internet (Pew Internet & American Life Project)
Library Data
- MBLC Your share of the Municipal Pie
- MBLC Library Statistics
- MBLC Circulation and Holdings Report
- MBLC Library Services AT a Glance Directory
- Massachusetts Regulations for Public Libraries
- National Center for Education Statistics Public Library Search
- Federal State Cooperative Service for Public Library Data
- ACRL/LAMA Space Planning for Academic Libraries
Planning Forms
Sample Plans