Better Programs, Deeper Impacts, and Expanded Capacities: What Makes Library Partnerships Valuable

https://programminglibrarian.org/articles/better-programs-deeper-impacts-and-expanded-capacities-what-makes-library-partnerships

“Over the last few months, we’ve been sharing results from a field-wide survey we conducted to understand library partnerships better.

The survey asked libraries to describe one partnership that worked well for them. In our last four posts, we discussed findings in connection with some of its key questions — including Who do you consider your public?; What did your partnership focus on?; How did you interact with your partner?; and What makes a partnership effective? In this post, we focus on a fifth key question our survey asked: What makes partnerships valuable? We left this question rather open-ended and allowed respondents to define “value” as they best saw fit. Our results allowed us to create a new model for understanding partnership value for libraries.”