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"With friends like these..."
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| Title: | "With friends like these..." |
| Author(s): | Seaton, Elaine |
| Subject(s): | Friends of the library |
| Abstract: | JDriends of the Library: so benign, so helpful, so ... friendly! Yet, so often when one mentions the subject to library administrators reactions are heard which range from, "Oh yes, we had a group years ago, when we had our new building campaign, but after that they became inactive and quietly disappeared," or, "Oh, you have a friends group? I keep thinking I should try to get a group going for my library, but what do you do with them?" to "Friends? You mean pests! There are days I'd trade them for identifiable enemies!" Are friends worth the bother? Is it heresy to ask? This small anthology of case studies has been assembled on the basis of discussions with many people, in different parts of the country and from libraries of various sizes. An entire book could be written about the interactions between library administration, the trustees of the library, and the friends group. There appears to be an endless array of stories, experiences, and strong feelings among participants in these mini-dramas. |
| Issue Date: | 1980 |
| Publisher: | Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Citation Info: | In D.W. Krummell (ed) Organizing the library's support: donors, volunteers, friends (Papers presented at the Allerton Park Institute November 11-14, 1979): 57-67. |
| Series/Report: | Allerton Park Institute (25th : 1979) |
| Genre: | Conference Paper / Presentation |
| Type: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/553 |
| ISBN: | 0878450548 |
| ISSN: | 0536-4606 |
| Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2007-04-10 |
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1979: Organizing the Library's Support: Donors, Volunteers, and Friends
Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 25, 1979); Edited by Donald W. Krummel
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