-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Telling the Map Library Story in a Downturn
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:55:00 -0700
From: Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
To: Maps-L Moderator <[log in to unmask]>
Dawn and others (not on MAPS-L) make an excellent point. With 20/20
hindsight, in one job where it was pretty clear the potential number of
customers was declining, I spent more time on trying to get new
customers than I should and less time on making clear to my supervisors
what our role could be (my immediate supervisor had the foresight of a
blind ___ -- fill in your choice of dumbness) if they would fund a
campaign using the resources available to us ($ for gas was all we
needed - probably would have amounted to $200 or less).
Anybody supervising or managing should have both strategic and tactical
plans for the organization they head. For those of you not clear on
what I'm talking about, the strategic plan is what you want to have
accomplished in the long term, at least five years or more, and gets
updated every year. The tactical plan covers what you want to have
accomplished by the end of the current fiscal year and probably also a
second section that's the draft for next fiscal year.
Having learned the lesson I mentioned above, after that, I have always
had a longer-term, not quite strategic, plan. In the next job after the
lesson-learning, when I interviewed for the position, I talked to the
practice leader (basically the manager of the technical staff in the
local branch of the consulting firm) at during the interview about my
need to know where he wanted us to be at the end of the year and in the
longer term. He answered my question and then wanted to know why I had
asked. I told him about the lesson-learning and that I wanted to do
everything possible in my proposed position to help all of us reach
those goals. Then, when I got the job, guess who got the task for
developing both plans. Sigh!
When I retired I set six objectives which constitute my long-term plan
and some intermediate goals that constitute a tactical plan with just a
couple of intermediate objectives to complete in the next 18 months to
build on the objectives of the long-term plan.
HTH.
v
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Maps-L Moderator wrote:
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> <br>Subject: Telling the Map
> Library Story in a Downturn
> <br>Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:48:43 -0500
> <br>From: Youngblood, Dawn <[log in to unmask]>
> <br>To: [log in to unmask]
> <[log in to unmask]>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>John's recent post -- RE: How many maps in your collection -
> recent acquisitions? got me to wondering: John, in light of the
> economic situation, are you having to justify your existence?
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>All members of listserv:
> <br>
> <br>I recently had a lunch conversation with a long time friend who
> co-heads a university press. She is already preparing materials to
> demonstrate how the press enhances the prestige of the university just
> in case the axe man cometh. Since many outside our ranks do
> consider the map library non-essential, it may be prudent for us to
> have a conversation on this listserv regarding how we can make our case...
> <br>
> <br>We could pose some questions for each other that would get us
> thinking about how to tell our story and make a defense.
> <br>
> <br>For example, an administrator says:
> <br>
> <br>Not many people use the map library anyway...
> <br>
> <br>or faculty says
> <br>
> <br>I can get all the maps I need through google...
> <br>
> <br>How do we respond?
> <br>
> <br>Dawn Youngblood
> <br>Curator, Edwin J. Fosuce Map Library
> <br>Southern Methodist University
> <br>________________________________________
> <br>From: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum
> [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Maps-L Moderator [[log in to unmask]]
> <br>Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 10:36 AM
> <br>To: [log in to unmask]
> <br>Subject: How many maps in your collection - recent acquisitions?
> <br>
> <br>-------- Original Message --------
> <br>Subject: How many maps
> in your collection - recent acquisitions?
> <br>Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:27:30 -0500
> <br>From: John M Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> <br>To: <[log in to unmask]>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>Hello All,
> <br>
> <br>Angie makes a great point (below). In my initial panic, I
> forgot about Christopher Thiry's 3rd edition to the Guide but I have
> ordered a copy. Please let me know if you have had a significant
> increase in your collection size since submitting your surveys to the
> Guide.
> <br>
> <br>For example, the LSU CIC acquired 24,474 maps from our climatology
> section in 2009.
> <br>
> <br>Thank you again,
> <br>
> <br>John
> <br>
> <br>John M. Anderson
> <br>Map Librarian and Director
> <br>Cartographic Information Center
> <br>Department of Geography & Anthropology
> <br>LSU
> <br>Baton Rouge, LA 70803
> <br>(225) 578-6247
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>-----Original Message-----
> <br>From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> <br>Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 9:13 AM
> <br>To: John M Anderson
> <br>Subject: Re: How many maps in your collection?
> <br>
> <br>John,
> <br>
> <br>After you have a chance to look at the book Dave Bertruca
> suggested you
> <br>look at - why don't you let me (and/or the list) know if that will
> suit
> <br>your purposes or if you want people to reply with more current info.
> <br>
> <br>-Angie
> <br>
> <br>Angie Cope, Senior Academic Librarian
> <br>American Geographical Society Library
> <br>UW Milwaukee Libraries
> <br>2311 E. Hartford Avenue
> <br>Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
> <br>
> <br>http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/index.html
> <br>Hours: M-F 8:00am-4:30pm
> <br>[log in to unmask]
> <br>(414)229-6282 / (800)558-8993 (US TOLL FREE) / (414)229-3624 (FAX)
> <br>43°03'8"N 87°57'21"W
> <br>
> <br>John M Anderson wrote:
> <br><blockquote type=cite>
> <br>Hello All,
> <br>
> <br>Sorry the about the rude subject line and abrupt message, but I'm in
> <br>need of some statistics to present to our Provost on short notice
> and I
> <br>haven't found a current list of map library collection statistics.
> <br>
> <br>I would like to have the following information about your collections
> <br>(Using my library as an example):
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>Name:
> <br>
> <br></blockquote></div>
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