Ontario Library Association Superconference

1999
  • Starting a friends’ group
  • Running a friends’ bookshop
  • Friendly persuasion
  • Profitable book sales
  • Raising a million dollars: fundraising the Barrie way
  •  Planning an authors’ event
  •  Do as we do – fundraising and fun

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2000
  • Opening session panel discussion:- an update on funding and gaming
  • Running a successful book sale” – Friends of the London public library
  • Friends and relations

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2001
  • Strategic planning tips and tools
  • Getting Friendlier (or Amalgamating Friends of the Library Groups)
  • Networking - focus groups

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2002
  • Best Friends @ OLA
  • Best Practices - Membership
  •  Best Practices - Fundraising

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200
  • Junior Friends @ your library
  • Friends of the Future: strategic planning for Friends groups
  • Friends of Small Libraries
     

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2004
  • Town and country: friends working in partnership
  • Fiends on a mission: strategic directions

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2005

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2006

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2007

·         A Million Reasons to Smile - Friends of the Ajax Public Library

·         Friends of the Library - An Invaluable Resource - Friends of Canadian Libraries

·         With a Little Help from My Friends

·         Anniversary Dinner

·         Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Today – Part One

·         Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Today – Part Two

·         Bringing Canada Reads to Your Library

·         Words at Large

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2008

·         How to start a friends of the library group
Presentation   
Resources     Ten tips for recruiting volunteers    What are Friends For   
Friends Role    Effective Board meetings    Job description-blank    Job descriptions   
Libraries helping friends . . .

·         What does it take to sustain a friends  group?
Presentation    =
Lindsay - Lois Magahay  - Brochure      Invitation
North Perth - Sheila Durand -  Annual General Meeting     Events outline    Booklet-1    Booklet-2
Ajax - Val Marshall -  Presentation notes

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2009
  • Fundraising that Works!  
    Lori Nash, President Friends of the Ottawa Public Library
    Heather Rumball, Toronto Public Library Foundation President

PowerPoint file - Toronto
PowerPoint - Ottawa
Handouts from Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Association
-  Governance Policy - English    French
- Memorandum of Understanding - English   
- By-laws - English
- Policy regarding . . . financial assets - English    French

  • Advocacy at work - saving branch libraries
    Barbara Clubb,  City Librarian, Ottawa Public Library
    Lori Nash, President Friends of the Ottawa Public Library
    Jan Harder, Chair, Ottawa Public Library Board,  Councillor, Ottawa City Council, President Canadian Library Trustees' Association

PowerPoint presentation
Session outline
PowerPoint file - background information - Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Association
Budget Info Kit - English    French
Briefing note - English
Sample SOS letter -  English  French
SOS news release1   news release2
SOS talking points
Nash -  Presentation to Council

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2010

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