Resources from previous conferences:
 

VLTA Conference 2012

Keynote Speech

• Sally Gardner Reed, Executive Director of United for Libraries

Handouts

• Financial Management Questionnaire (PDF)
• Segregation of Financial Duties with Limited Staff (PDF)
• Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Trivia (PDF)

Open Meeting Law and the 21st Century

• Open Meeting Law Compliance and the 21st CenturyPowerPoint (PDF)

PowerPoint

• Financial Management Best Practices for Non-Profits PowerPoint (PDF)
   

Town Officers' Education Conference 2012

Handouts

• Pocket Response Plan Template (PDF)
• Pocket Response Plan (Word)
• Emergency Planning: Is Your Library Prepared? PowerPoint (PDF)
• Resources List (PDF)

21st Century Library Sources in Vermont

• IMLS Strategic Plan: http://www.imls.gov/about/strategic_plan.aspx
• Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills: http://www.imls.gov/about/21st_century_skills_home.aspx
• Vermont Library Statistics: http://www.libraries.vermont.gov/libraries/stats/pstats

Emergency Planning

• dPlan: http://www.dplan.org
• NEDCC: Northeast Document Conservation Plan: http://www.nedcc.org/home.php
• COSA and the Pocket Response Plan: http://www.statearchivists.org/prepare/framework/prep.htm
• CalPreservation.org:  http://calpreservation.org/disasters/generic/plan_toc.html

Advocacy 101 and Beyond

• Turning the Page 2.0: http://www.ala.org/pla/turningthepage
• Geek the Library: http://geekthelibrary.org
• The Small but Powerful Guide to Winning Big Support for Your Rural Library: http://www.ala.org/offices/olos/toolkits/rural
• Adrea Kihlstedt. Capital campaigns: strategies that work.  3rd edition. c2010, Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
• ALTAFF: Association of Library Trustees, Advocates, Friends and Foundations: http://www.ala.org/altaff/about
• VLTA: http://www.vermontlibraries.org/sections
• ARSL: http://arsl.info
• 16 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important: http://www.collegeonline.org/library/adult-continued-education/librarians-needed.html
• Technology Trends in Libraries: http://vermontlibrarieslearn.wordpress.com/trustee-things/

VLTA Conference 2011: The Public Library, Value and Vision for the 21st Century

• Technology as the Enabler Power Point - created by Karen Marshall, Chief of Connect VT

• Strategic Planning and Vermont Library Plans

• Planned Giving - Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup, cilstrup@vermontcf.org, The Vermont Community Foundation, http://www.vermontcf.org/advisor-resources/ 
  and Michael Roche, michael.roche@state.vt.us, Vermont Department of Libraries

• Trustee Trivia 2011 (PDF)

• Finance Matters: Best Practices in Managing Library Funds (PowerPoint)

Town Officers' Education Conference 2010

• Good Meeting Practice (PDF Format)

• Resources for Vermont Trustees (PDF Format)

• Tips for Making Public Funding Requests (PDF Format)