Guess Who I Met In The Sandbox? Collaborations with the Public Library
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Playing in the Community Sandbox Collaborations with the Public Library Hutch Tibbetts Digital Resources Librarian Douglas County Libraries
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Douglas County Libraries’ has recently experienced several successful collaborations. Together with a major database vendor, it collaborated with the local school system to meet the electronic resource needs of the 55,000 students, increase their database use, and save taxpayers $100,000 in the process. At the same time, the library worked with chambers of commerce and local economic development councils to provide startup and marketing information to small-to mid-size companies. It has paired with the local election office to provide assistance with election questions. And an innovative program now allows library patrons to check out a pass to local art and wildlife museums. These are those collaborations.
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Playing in the Community SandboxCollaborations with the Public Library
Hutch Tibbetts
Digital Resources Librarian
Douglas County Libraries
Successful Collaborations
Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield
Bill Gates & Paul Allen
Sonny & Cher
DCL Initiatives
The Wildlife Experience
Denver Art Museum
Dinosaur Ridge
Community Involvement
Castle Rock Economic Development Council
Parker Downtown Development Council
Colorado Community Newspapers
Transparency Portal
John Travola & Olivia Newton-John
Vendors
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy
Local initiatives
Burt & Ernie
Elections Office
Election call costs
Calculation for cost of election calls for election office:
• Fee received for answering primary calls – $500 • Number of days answering calls – 17 • Fee received per week for calls – $294.12 = ($500 / 17) * 10 • Number of calls received 7/19-31 – 340 • $294.12/week / 340 calls received = .87¢ per call
Calculation for cost of election calls for Contact Center staff:
• Avg cost per hr for CC staff – $16.44• Time spent on election calls – 10.25 hours• Number of calls received 7/19-7/30 – 340 • $16.44 * 10.25 = $168.51 cost to answer calls• $168.51 / 340 = .50¢ per call
Partnerships
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Collaborations
Douglas County Libraries
Douglas County School District
CulturesDegrees of Magnitude
Category School District Library District
2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2009 2010 2011
No. Registered Customers 58,723 59,185 60,483 173,660 197,018 217,802
Budgeted Revenues $451,390,619 $466,102,256 $439,147,638 $21,251,179 $21,639,347 $21,840,000
No. FTE Employees 5,158 5,102 4,734 247 227 224
No. of Branches 84 75 77 7 7 7
Governing Board 7, elected 5, appointed
Question Type Number % Total
General 54 14.03%
Academic 23 5.97%
Business 8 2.08%
Homework, K-12 300 77.92%
TOTAL 385 100.00%
AskColorado questions in Douglas County
Time Number Percentage
Before 8 a.m. 4 1.61%
Between 8 a.m. & 3 p.m. 123 49.60%
Between 3 p.m. & 5 p.m. 28 11.29%
After 5 p.m. 93 37.50%
TOTAL 248 100.00%
AskColorado questions during the week by time
Wrinkles
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Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak
