Library Administration

Contains resources for funding library services, financial management, personnel management, planning library service, policies, surveys, construction and trustee/friends relations.

Construction

Maine State Library Development Office facilitates the library construction process with libraries through the services of the District Consultants.

Fundraising Resources - Capital Campaigns

This page offers tools and help finding funding resources with a focus on capital campaigns. Donation Receipt: [Word, 50 KB] Includes date, library name, donor, donation, received by, reference to where donor can find values for donation (thanks to Bridgton Public Library)This file requires either Microsoft Word 2007 or the Word Viewer.

Personnel

Personnel Policy Issues like salaries and position classifications, benefits, conditions of work, staff development, vacation and leave and employee performance evaluation. Job Descriptions: Sample job descriptions to facilitate writing your own or use one shared by a colleague. Share a job description. Performance Appraisal and Job Evaluation Forms: Sample performance appraisals for boards to evaluate directors and directors to evaluate employees at all levels.

Policies

Sample policies including for eReaders, templates of policies, links to other libraries' policies

Standards

Public Library Standards & Definition. Responsibilities of Public Libraries and related comments [Feb 16, 2011]

Statistics

The information in the Annual Statistics Report is designed to help librarians and trustees assess how well their libraries are performing, identify areas for improvement and make long range plans. 

Surveys

Guidelines for designing different type surveys: things to consider when developing, designing , and distributing a survey; sample surveys

Trustees and Friends

Public library trustee boards and Library Friends organizations may wish to consult the following Maine and regional resources.

Volunteers

Volunteers serve as an important link between the library and the community. They help the community to understand how the library works, as well as its importance as a community cultural, educational and recreational resource.