Planning an Adult Program on a Budget: Creative Library Program Solutions

• Want to start programming but don’t know where to start?
• Need help on providing quality programs on a limited budget?

This webinar will introduce the beginning program coordinator to the basic tools necessary to plan, implement and evaluate successful library programs for adult programming on a budget. From book discussions and author visits to craft programs and film screenings, this webinar is designed to help public librarians create programming that underscore the role of the public library as an important cultural, recreational and educational institution in the community.

This webinar will provide participants with ideas and samples of programs they can bring to their own library. A step-by step process and details including getting started, program types and associated costs, resources for low cost programs, and marketing and evaluating programs.

At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will:

• Be able to identify at least three types of low cost programs
• Be able to identify potential community partners within the community
• Be able to identify sources of invisible costs and in kind costs
• Be familiar with free and low cost avenues to promote programming
• Be able to collect and provide data to your organization and sponsors

This webinar will be of interest to public library staff newly assigned to coordinate programming for adults.

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Presentation Material

Speaker's slides

pptx [15.7mb]

pdf (Full slide) [3.6mb]

pdf (3 slides per page) [955kb]

Handouts

Planning Adult Program_Resources: doc [33kb] - pdf [57kb]

Program Proposal Template Master: doc [25kb] - pdf [45b]

Programming Policy: doc [37kb] - pdf [74kb]

Programming Suggestion Form: rtf [8kb] - pdf [53kb]

sample contract: doc [29b] - pdf [61kb]

Sample Event Planning Timeline: doc [29kb] - pdf [33kb]

Sample Invite Letter: doc [29kb] - pdf [61kb]

Sample Survey: doc [33kb] - pdf [90kb]

Chat, Q&A, Closed Captioning

Chat: pdf [166kb]