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Education is the movement from darkness to light. - Allan Bloom The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. - William S. Burroughs Change is the end result of all true learning. - Leo Buscaglia

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. -Marcus Tullius Cicero A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. -Liberty Hyde Bailey

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• A reader chooses when and where to focus attention; a speaker must focus a listener’s attention on what he or she is saying at this moment.
• A reader controls how fast he or she will move through a text; a speaker controls how fast listeners will move through an oral presentation.
• Readers have the option of going back and re-reading; listeners must grasp material as the speaker presents it.
• Readers have many graphic cues about order and importance of points and about the relationship among ideas; listeners rely on the speaker to be their guide and interpreter.

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Appeal to emotion

• Tell a story. Audiences respond better and be more convinced with stories that data.
• Use examples and anecdotes.
• Use surprises. This could be using a video when the audience thinks they are only getting slides.

What do you need to say?

The information for your presentation usually comes from a paper, case study, analysis, essay, or report. Choose only the key points from your paper. Go back to the question you were asked when you originally wrote your paper.

Design is key

Your presentation needs an introduction, body, and conclusion. Plan what your presentation will look like before you begin. Use only the important points from your paper to plan for sections of your presentation. These points then become the focus.

For each major section of your presentation, follow the 4 S Structure :

• Signpost the point (“First I’m going to point out the problem with...” “My second argument is that...” “It can be concluded that...”)
• State the point clearly and succinctly.
• Support the point with data, cases, description, relevant studies, etc.
• Summarize the point.

It is from these that you then design your slides and choose corresponding images and text.

10/20/30 rule

This rule states that a Power Point presentation should have no more than 10 slides, be 20 minutes long, and use no less than 30-point font.

This rule will keep the presentation on track so that you keep to time, as well as having a presentation that moves at a good pace and that is readable.

Do you need it?

• Use PowerPoint only if it will enhance audience attention, understanding, or retention.
• Be selective about what you put on slides. Don’t put the entire presentation on slides.
• Use visual and audio effects only if they serve your purpose and do not call attention to themselves. Make the technology serve the presentation. Don’t let it dominate.
• These are tools to help you tell your story. Don’t let the tools become the story.

Never read your presentation word for word. A good presentation is one where the presenter makes eye contact with his or her audience over the entire presentation. This means not reading your paper - your eyes are down, you lose your audience.

To help with this, make good notes, use cue cards, or put all notes on one sheet of paper. You can then glance at your notes for prompts. Better yet, learn and understand the material for your presentation, practice, and then use the images and text in your visual presentation as cues.

Tone and pacing

Avoid becoming monotone. Use variations in speed, inflections, and force to enhance your meaning and hold audience attention. Practice pronouncing words with which you are unfamiliar.

Some further points

Often times, a presenter does not notice their voice and body habits, which can be distracting when presenting. Remember, presenting is visual and oral story telling. With this in mind, understanding how a presentation looks and sounds is important. Keep these elements in mind:

Voice - “um,” “uh,” “okay”; everything sounding like a question (raising voice at the end of sentences); nervous laugh at the end of sentences; clearing the throat a lot, reading too quickly.

Body language - flipping hair back, playing with pen/pointer etc., rolling and unrolling notes, pushing sleeves up and down, playing with keys or coins in pockets, stepping back and forth/tapping foot, rocking body, touching face/adjusting glasses, turning rings on hand, waving hands around, tugging at shirt.

Visual aids - flipping overheads/slides too fast, talking to the screen.

Before you start!

Before you start working on your presentation:

• Check emails from your lecturer and the assignment question for how it should be presented,
• Check your learning materials and recommended reading on the course page,
• Read all instructions carefully - make sure you understand them and follow them exactly.

Here are some tips to keep in mind when creating an effective PowerPoint presentation:

• Remember to avoid too much text. You should keep your text brief and include talking points only. Detailed notes can be inserted into the notes section of PowerPoint, but only you should see those notes, unless a professor asks to see your notes to evaluate your PowerPoint as an assignment.
• Be consistent and clear with your font choices. Helvetica is a nice font for presentations. Make sure your font is large enough that an audience in a room would be able to see your text, even if audience members are sitting in the back of the room.
• Be careful with your color choices for text and background. You want to make sure your audience can read your text easily. Black on white text is easiest to read but is also boring for a presentation. Still, when you add color, just be sure you are adding color that works and doesn’t distract.
• Add images. Text on slides for every slide is boring. Add appropriate images to your slides. Relevant charts and graphs are excellent, as are pictures that will connect to your content.
• Make sure your main points are clear. Remember to connect your ideas well and provide background information and transitions when necessary.
• Keep your audience in mind. Your audience will affect the overall tone and appearance of your presentation. Sometimes, humor can be appropriate. Other times, a more serious tone may be necessary. Just as you evaluate your situation any time you write a paper, you should evaluate your situation for creating a PowerPoint presentation.

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Making Budget Presentations

Taking the Fear Our of the Library Budget Presentations Laying the Groundwork Preparing a Budget Presentation Citizen Support- Rallying Stakeholders Making the Budget Presentation- Do's & Don'ts Follow Up Budgeting Best Practices

BACK TO ADVOCACY LIBRARY

Taking the Fear Out of Library Budget Presentations

Creating and presenting a library budget is not just a matter of assigning numbers to line items on an Excel spreadsheet and presenting it to a group of officials. Far from it. Library budgeting is an ongoing activity, with many parts and many people involved. It is a cyclical process of listening to the community, working with decision-makers, telling compelling stories about your library – and bringing all these elements together in a budget presentation and then starting all over again. We have tapped into the wisdom of veteran librarians with years of experience drafting and presenting budgets in “good times and tough economic times.” The examples offered are from “real budgets.” We have included everything from a Glossary of Terms for those new to library budgeting to the “Do’s and Don’ts of Making a Budget Presentation.” There is a great feature on library budget presentations from the perspective of a decision-maker with years of experience listening to presentations and helping librarians hone their budgeting skills.

BACK TO TOP

Laying the Groundwork

Identifying community priorities.

Library directors don’t create their budgets in a vacuum. Even in today’s challenging economic times when libraries are lucky to keep their doors open and basic services covered, library directors and staff need to be continually attuned to what their community needs.

Most “formal” community needs assessments are done during a library’s strategic planning process – but it should be an ongoing task to pay attention to community needs and priorities.

What is happening in your community that your library can address with its programs or services? How can the library be a partner in solving local problems or addressing challenging issues? For example,

• Helping schools deal with dropout prevention?
• Assisting residents in finding jobs?
• Helping New Americans master essential skills and get access to critical programs and services?

Look to community partners to help share the library’s burden of meeting community needs.

• Can local social services provide funding for early childhood development or literacy programs?
• Are there federal programs or grants to support the library in assisting New Americans who are integrating into the community and acquiring essential skills?
• Are there small businesses or corporations who are willing to fund library programs or services such as a Summer Reading Program or a homework help center?
• Showing that you’ve formed strategic partnerships to meet the community’s needs illustrates that your library is nimble, creative and willing to stretch beyond the limitations of a prescribed budget.

The strategic plan comes from your community's priorities; the budget comes from your plan. Show how you’ve listened to what the community and your decision-makers want from the library and planned accordingly:

• If a community’s priority is to have a library presence in every neighborhood, you may need to recommend that all branches should be open but with limited hours.
• If the priority is efficiency and budgeting cuts, closing branches and extending hours at fewer branches may be the way to go.
• If helping individuals find jobs is a critical issue, access to computers and a mix of daytime and evening hours is essential.
• If low elementary and high school academic scores in your community is a problem, funding homework help centers should be part of your budget.
• If small businesses in your community are closing, creating a small business resources center shows how your library is supporting the local economy.

Start with the premise that a library is providing local services that are important locally. Unlike many other units of government (e.g. schools or transportation), budgetary decisions pertaining to libraries are almost always made at the local level. Stay current with what’s happening in the community from a local political perspective and reflect this perspective in your library budget.

Provide opportunities (a bulletin board, comment cards, Library Appreciation Week, etc. ) for library customers to share their stories about how your library is meeting their needs. Anecdotes from “real (voting) citizens” are powerful statements to include as part of your budget presentation.

Where Budgets and Friends Meet

Presenting an annual budget isn’t just the job of the library director. You’ve got Friends!

A Library Friends organization can be one of the most powerful allies a library has as the director prepares for and presents an annual budget. A good Friends group can:

• Help the library director determine what should be in the annual budget. A well-balanced Friends group reflects the geo-diversity of the neighborhoods the library serves. Friends Board members can give the library director valuable input about the community’s needs and what budgeting priorities are within their own neighborhoods.
• Mobilize a powerful Advocacy Committee that will work throughout the year to advocate on behalf of the library with local decision-makers. Friends Board members represent their neighborhood communities and develop relationships with their elected/appointed representatives. A good Friends advocate is a strong voice and a valuable tool in the budgeting process – and stays connected throughout the year.
• Develop position papers that present the library’s current economic position, its value to the community, funding needs, gaps and opportunities to expand capacity. The library’s budget spreadsheet is made up of line items and numbers. A library platform or a “Return on Investment” piece tells the full story of the library and all its value to citizens (in general as it supports specific populations), schools, businesses, the local economy…a good library platform tells it all! Two great examples of this include the Friends of the St. Paul Public Library's 2010 Advocacy Plan and the San Francisco Public Library Advocacy Report.
• Represent the library to constituent groups. Friends Board members often speak and represent the library with neighborhood groups, broadening community understanding and appreciation for the library’s value. A well-prepared Friends Board member has a lot of credibility because of their dedicated volunteer status.
• Advocate at the grassroots level. Friends Board members attend city and county meetings and offer testimony on behalf of the library. They connect with decision-makers regularly, keeping the library visible throughout the year.
• Be the literary voice for the library. Friends Board members often write op-ed pieces for local newspapers and “letters to the editor.”
• Open doors. From an elected official’s standpoint, Friends Board members can create links to groups and entities where an endorsement is sought. This mutual “back-scratching” can benefit the library and the elected official, creating a relationship that can have long-term positive effects for the library.
• Demonstrate how money talks! Broadly-based private funding from Friends groups demonstrates to local officials that supporters of libraries are powerful, spread out and ready to fight for their library.
• Mobilize other library supporters. Friends groups organize grassroots support of bonding measures, state or local set-asides or other ballot issues that have long-term effects on libraries.
• Fill the gaps. One of the biggest roles a library Friends group plays is to provide funding for library programs and services that are not covered by public funding of the library’s budget. This can be anything from funding a summer reading program to conducting a capital campaign.
• Sing the song of success. When successes are achieved (fending off budget cuts, renewing ballot measures, etc.) Friends can go back to library supporters and say “Look what you have done through your support – you made this possible.” There’s nothing sweeter than success achieved through a grassroots effort.

Coalition Building & Strategic Partnerships

Strength in Numbers: Leveraging Strategic Partnerships and Coalitions

Presenting a successful library budget can be greatly enhanced by demonstrating that your library has partners who work together to deliver programs and services to the community. Working with strategic partners, or in coalition, indicates that your library is finding creative ways of sharing resources and delivering added value by collaborating with other organizations.

• If your library works with schools, arts groups, history centers, museums or other community-based organizations, show how these partnerships allow the library to “deliver more with less” and enhances the services of your partner organizations.
• Demonstrate that your library shares goals with community agencies. Does your library work with a community organization, such as a workforce development program? Show the number of individuals who receive help with resume writing, learning job skills, using the Internet for finding jobs…and then describe how your library works with the community agency to achieve shared goals.
• Tell the story of how partnering with small business owners has an economic impact on the community. Share anecdotes and quotes as part of a handout, or your budget presentation.
• Libraries often share programming with community arts organizations. In your budget presentation, share information on how such a coalition appeals to private funders, lifting some of the financial burden from the public sector.
• Media partners are visible, powerful allies. If your library offers sponsored programming or events with local radio or TV stations, or newspapers, illustrate the power of these partnerships by highlighting attendance, sharing audience quotes and demonstrating that your library understands the value and impact of sharing the stage with a media partner.
• Schools and school media centers are under terrific pressure to provide needed resources for students, with shrinking budgets. Partner with area schools through homework centers or providing books and other resources that will be used in classes or programs. When you present your budget, show how this collaboration allows schools to expand their resources and your library to work with targeted groups of key customers.
• Defending a budget is as much about impact as it is about the bottom line. Look for and nurture partnerships that will allow your library to offer new, exciting programs and services and repeat (over and over) the success stories about how creative partnerships have a strong economic and “quality of life” impact on the community.
• “Back-scratching “can be a rich feature of a partnership or coalition. Share the success and spread the word about community partnerships. Speak or write in support of your strategic partners and ask them to do the same for your library. Having members of an arts organization, or a history center at budget hearings sends the message that the library is a strong community player.
• Other community organizations face the same challenges as the library. Reach out to your counterparts in other organizations and learn from them, as they learn from you. There are always strategies and tips to share and support to be enlisted.

Preparing a Budget Presentation

The decision-maker speaks.

Qualities of the Successful Budget Proposal

• The best budgets are always tied to the best spending plans. Instead of just asking for more, budget presentations must tie performance and justification to requests for increases.
• Decision makers look for the level of production per unit. When an increase is granted, how will the additional dollars translate into improvements? If additional staffing dollars are granted, how will the services be improved? Make sure that your budgeting authority can see, in real-world terms, how the money improves the work.
• In public library systems, budget analysis needs to be weighted to reflect how dollars will make the most impact in the places that are most in need. Not all things are equal and not all things are fair; understand that the delivery of the dollars need to be weighted with demographics in mind.
• The library world can sometimes be insular. Good budget directors will work with executive librarians out to ensure that a budget is responsive to constituents.
• Is the budget proposal balanced? The proposal for the year will reflect an increase, a decrease, or a status quo proposal - the librarian needs to be able to discuss the cause of any changes with the budgeting authority.
• Be ready to discuss changes both within the library and outside influences that may be driving changes in budget proposals.
• Decision makers will be most likely to approve budget proposals that are able to show balance between financing, spending, and performance.

Cautionary Tales

• Any lack of direct or frank responses to questions, or even the hint of holding back, will foster negative responses from budget authorities.
• Lack of preparation. Do not assume that wide public support will result in an easy proposal process, be ready for tough questions at every step.
• During the public presentation, know when to say that you don't know the answer and that you will get the answer to the budgeting authority as soon as possible.
• Be careful of committing to specific numbers in a public forum - if forced, offer a range and agree to follow up at a later date.
• If you know that you have opposition to your proposal ahead of time, avoid any type of confrontation. Ask your opponent to meet one on one at a later time to work out any concerns or reservations.

Best Practices for the Executive Librarian's Proposal

• Start your presentation with simple graphs and charts that anyone can understand - the lowest level of detail. You may have your whole proposal approved at a minimal level of discussion.
• Be prepared to add layers of detail should the need arise, but do not offer anything more than you have to. Work in stages with your detail and supporting materials.
• Dollar amount changes, year-over-year, with brief explanations of each line item that reflects a change.
• Service differences, year-over-year, with a similar level of detail to dollar changes.
• Staffing differences based on pay-grade with the same level of detail about changes year-over-year.
• A direct assessment of the changes and the forces driving the changes (dollars, services, staffing, and performance).
• If the questions require the next level of detail, if possible, try to refer them to the departmental Accountant or to the Assistant Librarian.
• If there are lots of questions, try to get the budget authority to send their questions, in writing, so that they may be answered with the level of detail they deserve - this puts the responsibility back on the questioners.
• Only offer what is needed AS it is needed. Offering too much information can tend to lengthen the questioning period.
• Remember, start with broad information and be ready to drill down, but at some point, the authority should be willing to move the questioning out of the public venue if it has many detailed questions.
• Be a good listener. Restate the questions to make sure that they are really what the authority wants to know.
• A good Budget Director will have worked with and coached the person making the proposal in advance, obviating many possible pitfalls.
• Know how to say NO. Keep the budgeting authority realistic and on track, some things just can not be done. Make a compromise offer of what you can do with the resources allocated and offer to report back periodically.
• A great deal of compromise may be required. Always remember that your ideal may not match perfectly with those of your budgeting authority.
• Positivity, no matter the circumstance, is critical
• Prepare and present a document that summarizes what the library is NOT doing or could be doing better. Use data from other systems and offer comparisons with similarly sized systems. Use per capita or per unit service comparisons to strengthen your arguments.

Do's & Don'ts in Making a Library Budget Presentation

From the Decision-Maker’s Perspective

• Once this executive-level presentation has been completed, the nature of the questions should be assessed and the next step will depend on the result of the assessment:

Don’t…

• Under-prepare. Do not assume that wide public support will result in an easy proposal process, be ready for tough questions at every step.
• Avoid giving a direct or frank response to questions. Even the hint of holding back will foster negative responses from budget authorities.
• Fake an answer! Know when to say that you don't know the answer and that you will get the answer to the budgeting authority as soon as possible.
• Commit to specific number in a public forum capriciously- if forced, offer a range and agree to follow up at a later date.
• Respond to confrontation publicly if you can help it. If you know that you have opposition to your proposal ahead of time, ask your opponent to meet one on one at a later time to work out any concerns or reservations.

Executive Librarians Speak

It’s easy to get caught up in the many details of budgeting, but for the Executive Librarian, the most important issues in successful budget proposal planning are community issues – how to best serve our constituents. Consider the following to ensure that you create and present a successful budget:

Never become so invested in the details of the budgeting process that you are caught off guard by a big-picture question.

Statistics, by themselves, do not tell the whole story:

Some years, there simply is NO money - no amount of pressure or support will be able to change this fact:

Be sure to demonstrate to the budgeting authority that you continuously strive for improvement, not just during tough times.

Best Practices from the Viewpoint of Executive Librarians

Within the Library Community:

• Forming panels of library administrators to advise on spending streams creates an environment of teamwork.
• Brown-bag budgeting sessions with senior team members can be very illuminating.
• Foster library ecosystem thinking among administrators - keep them thinking about the system as a whole, rather than focusing too closely on their own area of responsibility.
• Help administrators to think like the budgeting authority/decision makers: how will what you are proposing "pay off"?
• Look for opportunities to build cooperative purchasing agreements.

Outside the Library:

Utilize Friends groups:

• To teach patrons about the best ways to communicate with elected officials,
• To keep the public informed about the library's important events and organizational changes.

Utilize patrons:

Keep your budgeting authority up to date on what's happening at the library.

In some cases, early distribution of budget summary information (e.g. usage trending, connection to political priorities, etc.) can be very helpful.

• Maintain good relationships with your vendors.
• Library Trustees (especially those representing the governing body) are a critical way of keeping elected officials informed about the library.
• Request that the governing body include time in their regular meeting agenda each month for a report by the Library Director. This prevents the feeling that “the only time we ever hear from you is when you want something.”
• When times get tough, your vendors will appreciate knowing that they won't stay that way - things will improve.

If a cut has to be made, be prepared to do it.

10 Things I Know to be True about Budgeting for Libraries

• Budgeting is a year-round exercise. Decision makers need to hear about your services all year – not just when they’re voting on a new budget. It’s easier to get and hold their attention when they’re not being deluged.
• You can’t make responsible decisions without the right information. Decide what you need to know and collect that data. If you know you need to reduce hours, for example, find out what days and times you’re busiest with circulation, visits, phone calls and other electronic communication. And then think about the data your library should collect next year: what will you need to know to tell the library’s story?
• Budget staffs have long memories. Do not play fast and loose with the numbers. If you eliminate 5 FTE by cutting 10 hours of service, you can’t ask for 8 FTE to replace those hours in the future. The budget folks will remember and you will look like a bad manager at best and deceitful at worst.
• It’s easier to build up than tear down… and it helps you focus on the future. If you’re facing substantial cuts, make a list of all the resources the library will still have – buildings, staff, technology, collections. Then study your usage data and design a new library system with the available resources.
• We cannot afford irrelevant excellence. We all have those things our libraries do well that aren’t as important as they once were. It’s just human nature to want to do those things we’re comfortable with and good at. Have staff at all levels help you find and eliminate those programs or processes that no longer support your service plan and are draining your resources.
• Even in bad times, you are building for the future. It’s tempting to drastically cut or even eliminate training funds when times are bad. Don’t. You’ll need motivated, skilled staff to get through hard times and prepare for the future.
• A communication plan is essential. What will you tell staff, the library board, elected officials, the public about the budget … and when? What formats will you use? Who will speak for the library? People need to trust that you will tell them what you can, when you can.
• You need to think like your audience. Whether you’re justifying a budget request to elected officials or explaining service cuts to the high school parent-teacher association, you must consider your audience and recast the message to resonate with them. Remember, if a library’s materials budget is cut by 20% and circulation remains level, it will look to some people like a good business decision.
• It’s not always about the numbers. Nothing beats an anecdote from a constituent in making the case for your budget. Letters, emails, phone calls, testifying at a budget hearing – these are all opportunities for decision makers to hear what’s important to the community. Elected officials and other decision makers expect you to fight for the library’s budget. What will sway them is hearing from the public.
• You can’t say “thank you” too often. Even when your budget is being cut, make sure decision makers are thanked publicly for the difficult work they’re doing. At a time when they’re getting hammered from all sides, they will appreciate and remember positive words from your supporters.

Graphs to Tell the Story

Graphs can help us tell our library's story.

TREND Graphs show this library OVER TIME - are we getting better or worse?

COMPARISON Graphs show US VS. SIMILAR facilities or standards (at one point in time) - are we leading or falling behind?

• "similar" may be based on municipal population, service population, annual circulation transactions, geographic location
• local governments often want comparisons to neighbors, even though not "similar"
• standards may be State quantifiable standards

Create "Normalized" Statistics:

• Permit comparisons among libraries of different sizes (including ours if we've grown!)
• Personnel costs per FTE: shows what each full-time equivalent staff member costs in pay and benefits - so we don't have to be concerned with size of staff, how many are part-time, etc. (No matter how many hours we're open, the number of FTE's = total staff hours/40.)
• Are we over/under staffed? Circulation per FTE: shows how many circulation transactions each full-time equivalent staff member handles annually
• Cost per circ.: shows operating costs expended for each circulation transaction. (with or without personnel costs)
• Municipal allocation/Equalized Assessed Value: shows funding in relation to community wealth
• Municipal allocation per capita: shows funding per citizen.
• Municipal allocation plus State funding per circ.: compare to cost per circ to see shortfall

Determine Other Info Important to Our Audience: Funding besides municipal allocation (how are we doing at generating other revenues?), Population changes inside/outside of municipality, etc.

(Equalized Assessed Value is available from local, county or State government. All other info above is available from State's agency in charge of libraries.)

Group the statistics to make graphs with IMPACT!

TREND Graphs

• Support Graph (PDF) : municipal support per capita vs. per $1,000 in EAV (trend, last 5 years)

COMPARISON Graphs

• Facility Offerings Graph (PDF) : number of public access pc's, hours open per week, volumes of print material
• Circulation Graph (PDF) : circulation in various categories (Adult, Child, Total), along with cost per circulation transaction.
• Staffing and Pay Graph (PDF) : number of FTE's (Full-Time Equivalents) and total personnel costs per FTE

Other possibilities:

• Programs (COMPARISON or TREND) Graph: number of programs and total annual program attendance. Or, normalize to: number of programs per capita and attendance per program.
• Expenditures and Support (TREND) Graph: total operating and materials expenditures and municipal allocation (are they rising/falling together?)
• Summarize graph results in a box below each graph, so no one misses the message!

Remember: this info can also help in planning!

• At what point will we need more personnel? When our Circ/FTE gets too high…
• How much will another person cost? Use Personnel Cost/FTE to estimate…
• If circulation grows (due to expansion, population growth, etc.) how much will our expenses go up? Use Cost/Circ. (adjusting as necessary for personnel costs!)…..

Use the Right Data to Get Your Budget Passed!

Powerful data in your budget presentation can pave the way to support from your funding sources. It can tell your story – where you have been, where you are now, and where you hope to go with library services in your community. It can give them reasons to support your efforts, and ways to justify this to constituents. Some things to consider:

• The Public Library Association prepares an annual report with extensive data on library services ( www.pla.org ). Information includes annual funding and expenditures, collection size and services, etc. for a large sample of libraries in the U.S. and Canada.
• Many states collect similar data through their library oversight departments and make it available to the public – for example, Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction has annual data going back many years for every library in the state, available in Excel format on their website. Even if your library is not in Wisconsin, this information can show how libraries of various sizes serve their communities.
• More local data may also be available from your library consortium or city and county library service.
• Don’t forget non-library data! You may want to compare your library’s budget requests to cost of living increases or discuss how rising unemployment drives increased need for your services, etc.
• Consider presenting information on the market value of your library’s services to the community. Check out: www.maine.gov/msl/services/customcal.htm to see what a bargain libraries are!
• Here is an example of a chart that would give some perspective on how the “Presenting Library” stacks up to others on key indicators (data from PLDS Statistical Report 2009, for libraries serving population of 25,000 to 49,999). Note how we have provided the conclusion that we’d like drawn from the information presented:

As this chart shows, high materials expenditure achieves exceptional circulation. Yet total expenditure and FTE's are responable.

• Wisconsin, for example, has Quantitative Standards for Materials Expenditures, Hours Open, etc. based on population served. Any library anywhere could measure itself against such standards.
• A chart or graph that demonstrates meeting or exceeding many standards while failing at others can be a powerful way to support funding for those areas.
• You can compare your library to those in similarly-sized communities or those with similar circulation.
• Budgeting authorities are often especially interested in how your library compares to those in neighboring communities.
• Restating total Materials Expenditures into Materials Expenditures per Capita makes it possible to compare libraries serving different sized populations.
• Restating total Operating Expenditures into Operating Expenditures per Circulation enables you to show how economically you deliver your services (or use it to support a request for funding for efficiency improvements, like self-service kiosks).
• Funders concerned with your personnel costs may be reassured by seeing your Staff Costs per Circulation, or FTE per Public Service Hour compared to those of similarly-sized libraries.
• Finally, remember that all this data can do more than just directly support your budget request. It can also help you to gain the perspective (which you can also share with funding authorities and patrons) that will enable your library to continually monitor its performance and strive to improve its services to the community.

Citizen Support- Rallying Stakeholders Around the Library

It’s hard to find anyone who doesn’t believe in libraries. Getting people to raise their voices in support of the library is another story. Rallying stakeholder support is a powerful tool in passing library budgets, keeping libraries open and keeping a library’s value to the community highly visible.

There are several ways to bring individual citizens and constituent groups out in support of the library and plenty of things stakeholders can do to apply critical pressure on the library’s behalf.

• Grassroots advocacy efforts are one of the oldest and most effective tools for persuading decision-makers. Libraries of all sizes should have Advocacy Committees made up of citizens from every neighborhood.
• The Advocacy Committee should meet with the Library Director and be educated on all aspects of the library’s budget, library needs, the budgeting cycle and all of the library’s sources of funding. An advocate who knows what they’re talking about is really powerful.
• Anyone speaking in public on the library’s behalf should have talking points and fast facts about the library and its budget needs.
• Supporting the library’s budget isn’t just the task of an Advocacy Committee. Library supporters from all neighborhoods should be encouraged to attend public meetings and budget hearings and, if appropriate, give testimony.
• Central and branch libraries should post notices about budget hearings and public meetings that focus on library issues.
• Even if citizens don’t speak at public meetings, their presence is valuable. A self-identified group of library supporters carries a strong message: “I’m a library supporter…and I vote.” This is what decision-makers need to see and hear.
• Buttons abound…libraries across the country have developed buttons for getting their message across. Wearing a button that tells anyone and everyone that you are a library supporter spreads the word quickly and pervasively.
• Constituent groups served by the library can form a strong advocacy group. Teenagers who use the library for homework help can learn about the civic process by testifying on their library’s behalf, or by meeting with their elected official (make sure they’re prepared!). Seniors who view the library as the go-to place for life-long learning are often eager to speak up for the library. New Americans have powerful, emotional stories to tell about how the library impacts their lives and the importance of supporting the library’s budget.
• Working with the media is another powerful tool to encourage support of a library’s budget. Press releases, Letters to the Editor, Op-Ed pieces focusing on facts and impact are great ways to garner support for the library and its needs.
• Choose well-known, respected community leaders to write or speak on the library’s budget. (For an excellent example of “two mayors” speaking on behalf of a library’s budget, read the Viewpoints article from the Saint Paul Pioneer Press (PDF) .
• Keeping information about the library and how it supports the community should be an ongoing priority…not just when the budget is on the table.

Making the Budget Presentation- Do's & Don'ts

Budget presentation 101 and beyond.

Considering that your budget presentation is an opportunity both to improve your audience’s understanding of library operations and to achieve passage of your funding request, a well-designed presentation is well worth the work!

Let’s assume that you will be presenting your budget request in person and have decided to do so via a handout and a PowerPoint presentation. Here are suggestions for a basic presentation, then how to “rise above” that level for a more powerful presentation. There is also a PowerPoint template showing, slide-by-slide, how to structure your presentation to maximize your audience’s understanding and support.

At a minimum, your budget presentation should…

• Start (both the hand-out and the Power Point) with the Library’s Mission Statement, to remind your audience of the library’s purpose and role in the community.
• Current Budget
• Current Year’s Projected (or Actual, if the entire year’s transactions are already known) revenue and expenses.
• Next Year’s Budget (the one you’re submitting for funding)
• Then, two columns for “Change in $$” and “Change as a %.” There is some variation in how this is done, but it is recommend that you compare Next Year’s Budget to Current Year’s Projected, as this is more current than the budget created a year ago.
• Then, you will need some analysis of these figures. The most basic way to do this is to group revenue and expenditure accounts, such as Personnel (salaries, wages, benefits), Materials/ Programming (books, periodicals, speaker fees), etc. Then discuss your budget rationale for each group, for example, “Health insurance premiums increased 14%, but we plan to reduce hours and freeze wages so we can hold Personnel costs steady for next year.”

Following these steps would constitute a bare minimum presentation. This may be sufficient but it can waste an opportunity to showcase your achievements or garner support for your challenges!

Let’s expand our presentation –so that it stimulates the response we seek – better understanding and stronger support.

To start on this path, carefully determine one or two key messages you would like to convey to your audience related to this budget . For example, you may wish to show how the community has increased its demand and response to Library programming. Or, you may wish to convey that limited funding has left you with stale collections that are of diminishing value to the community.

• Your library can’t do everything for everyone, and your funding authority has multiple demands on it, as well. Focusing your presentation on a couple of issues can make it possible to reach a consensus on what is most important in your budget request.

Next, you’ll need to decide how to get those messages across to your audience.

• show increases in numbers of programs offered per capita and numbers of attendees, both for just your library over some period of time
• compare your library’s programs (numbers or, perhaps, variety)and cost per capita to those of similar libraries.
• Finally, you would show exactly how your proposed budget will enable you to improve this service (e.g., another weekly story hour costs $1,000/yr).
• compare your collections (size, age) to those of similar libraries or accepted standards
• compare materials expenditures and annual circulation per capita, either to those of similar libraries or for just your library over a period of time (or both!).
• Finally, you would show (again) exactly how your proposed budget will enable you to make the improvements you seek (e.g., 3-year plan to update geography reference materials at $5,000/yr).
• See the Using Comparative Data and the Graphs to Tell the Story sections of this website for more ideas.
• Consider a brief handout that gives a snapshot of your library for the past year. This handout is a good take-away for your audience to be able to think about what the library has accomplished in the past year in a succinct format.
• As you think about how best to convey your message, remember your audience. Consider how much time will you have, how comfortable they may be with numbers/charts/graphs, whether they are likely to be overwhelmed if you provide too much data or suspicious if you provide not enough, etc. In general, limit the number of PowerPoint slides, and keep each one “short and sweet.”
• Note that the beauty of this “message” approach is that your presentations will offer a fresh perspective from year to year as your messages change, enabling you to build over time a fuller understanding within your audience of the library’s services and needs.

Finally, remember to maintain an upbeat, “can do” attitude throughout your presentation. Keep in mind the Mission Statement and the community you serve. If presentation is done at a public meeting, you should have encouraged Friends, etc. to attend to demonstrate support for the Library’s service to the community. Whatever response you get from your funding authority, be sure to thank them for their attention.

Check out the PowerPoint Budget Presentation to view a template for structuring your budget presentation.

Qualities of A Successful Budget Presentation

Best practices for budget presentations.

• Be ready to answer the most unexpected of questions (e.g. “What could you do with half of that?”).
• Understand that the budget details, about which you care deeply, will never be as important to the budget authority; accept this and figure out what is important to its members.
• Remember that your presentation has to be layered – the budget authority might approve your proposal without a single question, having only seen the executive summary.
• Remember that you better have a second (and possibly a third) layer of detail to present to your budget authority. They just might have a lot of questions for you.
• Avoid any kind of public confrontation – agree to meet personally with a questioner who isn’t satisfied with your answer.
• Do not commit to a specific number in an open forum; if you’re backed into a corner, agree to a range or to discuss it at a follow up meeting.
• Balance is the key for budget authorities who are accountable to voters – if financing, spending, and performance are balanced, your budget will appeal to everyone.
• Know that people who work with numbers for a living want to see how things compare with other things (e.g. year-over-year, per capita performance, increase of total services, etc.); give them what they want.
• Use whatever tools you need to get your message across, but be sure that your message gets through. Graphs and charts, PowerPoint presentations and executive summaries are great visual aids, but if your message is muddled the process of approval will be unnecessarily complicated.

Main Street Library At a Glance

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Description and Purpose of Activity

The Main Street Public Library strengthens community, supports literacy, provides access to information, and fosters lifelong learning and enrichment.

Library activities include selecting, purchasing, cataloging, processing and circulating books, magazines, newspapers, audiobooks, DVDs and music CDs for the use of the community. Library staff members strive to fully answer requests for information and to locate needed items and articles. They actively participate in community efforts to improve literacy by offering programs for all ages, particularly pre-school children and their caregivers. The Library is also a place where free access to the Internet and computing is available. The Library provides outreach bookmobile service to daycares and other stops within the City and offers a large number of electronic resource subscriptions.

Accomplishments & Highlights 2009

• Increased service levels, experiencing the busiest days in the library’s history, following a trend that began in 2007.
• Working with the local work force center, developed a Business and Employment Resource Area in the library. The collection for this Resource Area was provided with the assistance of the Friends of the Library.
• Replaced furniture in the Teen area with assistance from the Friends of the Library. Finished repainting Teen area and added display shelving and slat wall (end cap display) in many places throughout the library.
• Continued to gather information (particularly related to fundraising) and plan for a library expansion.

Initiatives in 2010

• Continue to implement the steps outlined in the 2008-2012 Library Long-Range Plan; evaluate progress towards goals and revise as needed. Major goals of the plan are: foster lifelong learning support information literacy and collaboration; the library as a welcoming, accessible and convenient public gathering place; diverse collections of print, media and electronic resources; information related to work and employment, school, business and personal life; developing a library facility that will support the services the Main Street Library community needs
• Cut county bookmobile stops and proportionately reduce bookmobile staff hours accordingly.
• Cut Sunday hours in order to reduce staff expenditures.
• Celebrate the centennial of the Carnegie Library Building.
• Continue to contribute substantially to the economic vitality of the community.

Once the Budget Presentation Is Over

• Once your budget has been approved, the cycle begins again. There are steps you should take to smooth the way for the next budgeting process.
• Say “Thank you!” to decision-makers who have been part of the budgeting process. Call or write and let them know that you appreciate their time and consideration of your library’s needs.
• Thank your Advocacy Committee members and other volunteers and stakeholders for their support of your library in the budgeting process.
• Let your staff know your appreciation for their efforts in creating your library’s budget. Share any specific feedback you may have received from decision-makers.
• Debrief the process with your staff. What went well? What could have made the process more efficient? What should you change in the next budgeting process?
• Begin again the ongoing progress of scanning the community to monitor needs, priorities, challenges and opportunities for providing service. Keep a budget file that you add notes to that will help inform the next budgeting process.
• If you are requested to come back with a revised budget, respond quickly. You should always go into a budget presentation with a “Plan B” in the event that your budget doesn’t receive approval.
• Budgeting can be a stressful process. When your presentation is over, celebrate your efforts with your staff so that everyone feels they’ve participated in a good team effort.

Budgeting Best Practices

Best practices for creating a successful budget.

• The library budget is the result of local money funding an important local function. Remind your budgeting authority how its library returns value to the community and aligns with the community’s priorities during every budget cycle (and at every other opportunity).
• A community’s priorities are the priorities of the community’s library – library patrons and their elected officials need to know exactly how everyone benefits by supporting this community asset. Patrons (voters) need to let politicians know that they support libraries. Politicians will gain votes using the same message to voters.
• Understand how to use comparative data (from similar library communities or against your own library’s historical data) that support your budget narrative. Have a strong understanding of contemporary and past budget events in your community; learn how to use statistical trends to support your arguments.
• Your profession is collegial and filled with people who love learning and helping others – remember there are many librarians out there who are willing to share their experiences with you. Your greatest resource for budgeting advice could be your professional colleagues.
• Work with the community’s representatives – board members, Trustees, Friends groups, and elected officials. Whether the economy is waxing or waning, these groups support and care about libraries and will help you to align the budget with the community’s priorities.
• Budgeting is a year-round practice that requires constant attention; teach staff members and non-staff supporters always to keep their eyes open for opportunities to fine-tune the processes and efficiencies of your library.
• The community’s library is always about the future of the community – your budget proposal relates directly to the youth of your community.
• Always keep your message positive - be ready and willing to compromise.
• You have multitudes of patrons who will never set foot in your library (accessing the library’s resources via the Internet). Figure out creative ways for reaching these cyber-patrons to ask for their support.

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LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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Library management systems help libraries keep track of their documents inventory and loans, and member subscriptions and profiles, sometimes for multiple physical locations. Libraries rely on library management systems to manage asset collections as well as relationships with their members.

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AIM OF THE PROJECT • A college library management is a project that manages and stores books information electronically according to students needs. The system helps both students and library manager to keep a constant track of all the books available in the library. • It allows both the admin and the student to search for the desired book. It becomes necessary for colleges to keep a continuous check on the books issued and returned and even calculate fine. • This task if carried out manually will be tedious and includes chances of mistakes. • These errors are avoided by allowing the system to keep track of information such as issue date, last date to return the book and even fine information and thus there is no need to keep manual track of this information which thereby avoids chances of mistakes. • Thus this system reduces manual work to a great extent allows smooth flow of library activities by removing chances of errors in the details.

OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT • This project system was highly recommended due to the rapid increase of computer related tools in the industry. • With this proposed system features and functions of the online book shop and the e-library that will be able to accommodate more reliably consistent and faster in providing a better service to the users.

SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS: • Processor : intel 3 • Motherboard : intel 915gvsr chipset board • Ram : 4 gb ddr2 ram • Hard disk drive : 160 gb SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: • Front end : html5, css3, bootstrap • Back end : php, mysql • Control end : angular java script PHP TOOLS: • xampp-win32-5.5.19-0-VC11 ANDROID TOOLS: • Android Emulator • xampp-win32-5.5.19-0-VC11 • Android Studio

EXISTING SYSTEM • Time and access can be obstacles to library research. • Readers must get to the library during library hours, which may not be convenient. They also may need to stay in the library for a long time to ensure they have exhausted all resources. • Some resources may not be available for checkout, which means the student must stay in the library to use them. • And those that do circulate may be checked out by others and unavailable to anyone else.

DISADVANTAGES OF EXISTING SYSTEM • Lack of privacy​ • Risk in the management of the data.​ • Less Security​ • Low co-ordination between ​ • Less User-friendly​ • Accuracy not guaranteed​ • Not in reach of distant users. • There is no storage and automation if users have some enquiry.

PROPOSED SYSTEM • Proposed system is an automated Library Management System. Through our software user can add books, search books, renewal, update information, edit information, and return books in quick time. Our proposed system has the following advantages. • Developed a well-organized book issue and searching system. Produced a well-designed and functioning system in accordance to the needs and wants of the borrowers. • Minimized the task and the effort being performed by both the owners and borrowers. • Provided the school and the students a well-organize and well-presented reports. • . User friendly interface • . Fast access to database • . Less error • . More Storage Capacity • . Search facility • . Look and Feel Environment • . Quick transaction

ADVANTAGES OF PROPOSED SYSTEM • The system excludes the use of paper work by managing all the book information electronically. • Admin can keep updating the system by providing the new books arrival in system and their availability thus students need not to go to library for issuing purpose. • The system has books well organized and systematically arranged in different categories in the system so that user can easily search and find the book. • Thus, it saves human efforts and resources.

MODULE LIST PUBLIC/ USER • Login • Register • Search Book • My Borrow History Book • Issue Date, Exp Date • Check Fine • Search material ( year, semester wise ) • Download material • My profile

MODULE LIST ADMIN • Login • Add Book • Update/Delete Book • Issue Book for student • Return Book Status • Make Fine • Update material ( year, semester wise ) • View material

USECASE DIAGRAMS USER/ PUBLIC

USECASE DIAGRAMS ADMIN

WORK FLOW DIAGRAM FOR ANDROID

WORK FLOW DIAGRAM FOR WEB APPLICATION

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CONCLUSION • Hence we have designed the project to provide the user with easy navigation, retrieval of data and necessary feedback as much as possible. • In this project, the user is provided with an online system that can be used to issue and return books in library management online. It should be convenient for the student to view the contents of their status and to be able to return or add books to their account. • The Online library System provides a number of features that are designed to make the student more comfortable. • This project helps in understanding the creation of an interaction and the transparency between the student and the librarian of the books through the system.

FUTURE ENHANCEMENT • In Future work, This application to develop a cross platforms like IOS, etc. • In adding the more features of online library management system to develop access with user’s flexibility. • To authenticate the users based on the system users list which is maintained by the operating system • To restrict the usage of all files by the users based on their privileges on the system

REFERNECES • J. Thirumurugan, G. Kartheeswaran, M. Vinoth, M. Vishwanathan, "Line following robot for library inventory management system", Int. Conf. on Emerging Trends in Robotics and Communication Technologies, Dec. 2010. • Jesus M. Gomez, De Gabriel, Anthony Mandow, Jesus Fernandez Lozano, Alfonso J. Garcia-Cerezo, "Using LEGO NXT Mobile Robots with LabVIEW for Undergraduate Courses on Mechatronics", IEEE Trans. on Education, vol. 54, no. 1, Feb. 2011. • Jesus Manuel, Anthony Mandow, Jesus Fernandez Lozano, Alfonso Garcia Cerezo, Gomez de Gabriel, "Mobile Robot Lab Project toIntroduce Engineering Students to Fault Diagnosis in Mechatronic Systems", IEEE Trans. on Education, vol. 28, no. 3, Aug. 2015. • Colin Rennie, Rahul Shome, Kostas E. Bekris, Alberto F. De Souza, "A dataset for improved RGBD- Based object detection and pose estimation for warehouse pick and place", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 1, no. 2, July 2016. • Rahul S. Pol, SagarGiri, Aditya Ravishankar, VarshaGhode, "LabVIEW Based Four DoF Robotic arm", IEEE, 2016.

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2.10. Free Infographic Kit

A fully comprehensive infographic PowerPoint graphic pack that is crammed full of everything you could want to bring your statistics to the audience. Carefully crafted, tremendously varied, customizable, editable, flexible, and all this with the added professional pizzaz of expert design. It’s free and it’s ready to rock.

2.11. 20 Free Infographic Templates

If you want to speed things up, you can try using premade PowerPoint templates for your presentation. In this huge bundle of 539 infographics, you will find 20 free infographic templates. They are made with a lot of graphics, and you can easily grab some of the elements and adapt it to your presentation.

3. More places to find PowerPoint Graphics

Although it’s difficult to believe you haven’t found exactly what you are looking for already in our classic collection, let’s not worry. The one thing we do have now is plenty and plenty of choice. Here are some paid-for possibilities that you may want to jazz up that make or break a presentation.

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For $49.00 you could check out this royalty-free Graphics pack from PresentationPro. This pack contains thousands of graphics, clipart, and illustration in all sorts of categories from geography to calendars, from Scrabble to sport, and in differing styles. The graphics can be used in other formats too so you are not limited to PowerPoint.

GraphicMama

As well as the free offers, already covered Graphic Mama has a top-class selection of paid-for bundles ranging from characters to graphics assets, backgrounds , and templates from a little as $31 per set. This is ideal if you’d like to theme your presentation around a character as there are multiple gestures and poses for each. All are easily customizable, editable, and adaptable to any project and design. A gallery of cartoon characters , including businessmen, animals, robots, superheroes, doctors, ninjas, and more. Graphic Mama also offers custom designs, so you can turn yourself into a caricature and animated puppets to really make waves.

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At GetMyGrpahics you can take up a subscription giving you access to over 9,000 professional PowerPoint graphics starting at $49 per month or a Pro package at $99 per month.  Obviously, at this price, it is not for a one-off or occasional piece but for professionals it does provide plenty of options. They include infographics and illustrations in a wide range of categories and differing styles.

Final Words

The old PowerPoint presentation. It’s been around for years and it truly isn’t enough to just churn out the old stuff. Vital though they may be, people always expect more, always expect better, and why not? With a little extra effort, you can turn your slideshow presentation into something that isn’t just a time filler but that really makes a difference, communication, and shows you off in the best light. PowerPoint graphics can make all the difference by breathing life and energy into your presentation and consequently your performance. If you feel confident in your material it will help your delivery. Best of all you can step it up for free, so why wouldn’t you?

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python-pptx is a Python library for creating, reading, and updating PowerPoint (.pptx) files.

A typical use would be generating a PowerPoint presentation from dynamic content such as a database query, analytics output, or a JSON payload, perhaps in response to an HTTP request and downloading the generated PPTX file in response. It runs on any Python capable platform, including macOS and Linux, and does not require the PowerPoint application to be installed or licensed.

It can also be used to analyze PowerPoint files from a corpus, perhaps to extract search indexing text and images.

In can also be used to simply automate the production of a slide or two that would be tedious to get right by hand, which is how this all got started.

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.text property getters encode line-break as a vertical-tab (VT, ‘v’, ASCII 11/x0B). This is consistent with PowerPoint’s copy/paste behavior and allows like-breaks (soft carriage-return) to be distinguished from paragraph boundary. Previously, a line-break was encoded as a newline (’n’) and was not distinguishable from a paragraph boundary.

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Prompt engineering guide.

Prompt engineering is a relatively new discipline for developing and optimizing prompts to efficiently use language models (LMs) for a wide variety of applications and research topics. Prompt engineering skills help to better understand the capabilities and limitations of large language models (LLMs). Researchers use prompt engineering to improve the capacity of LLMs on a wide range of common and complex tasks such as question answering and arithmetic reasoning. Developers use prompt engineering to design robust and effective prompting techniques that interface with LLMs and other tools.

Motivated by the high interest in developing with LLMs, we have created this new prompt engineering guide that contains all the latest papers, learning guides, lectures, references, and tools related to prompt engineering for LLMs.

🌐 Prompt Engineering Guide (Web Version)

We've partnered with Maven to deliver the following live cohort-based courses on prompt engineering:

LLMs for Everyone (Beginner) - learn about the latest prompt engineering techniques and how to effectively apply them to real-world use cases.

Prompt Engineering for LLMs (Advanced) - learn advanced prompt engineering techniques to build complex use cases and applications with LLMs.

Happy Prompting!

Announcements / Updates

• 🎓 New course on Prompt Engineering for LLMs announced! Enroll here !
• 💼 We now offer several services like corporate training, consulting, and talks.
• 🌐 We now support 13 languages! Welcoming more translations.
• 👩‍🎓 We crossed 3 million learners in January 2024!
• 🎉 We have launched a new web version of the guide here
• 🔥 We reached #1 on Hacker News on 21 Feb 2023
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You can also find the most up-to-date guides on our new website https://www.promptingguide.ai/ .

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• Prompt Engineering - Examples of Prompts
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• Prompt Engineering - Retrieval Augmented Generation
• Prompt Engineering - Automatic Reasoning and Tool-use (ART)
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• Prompt Engineering - Generating Data
• Prompt Engineering - Generating Synthetic Dataset for RAG
• Prompt Engineering - Takling Generated Datasets Diversity
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• Prompt Engineering - Graduate Job Classification Case Study
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We have published a 1 hour lecture that provides a comprehensive overview of prompting techniques, applications, and tools.

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• Boot the guide with pnpm dev
• Browse the guide at http://localhost:3000/

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• Wall Street Journal - ChatGPT Can Give Great Answers. But Only If You Know How to Ask the Right Question
• Forbes - Mom, Dad, I Want To Be A Prompt Engineer
• Markettechpost - Best Free Prompt Engineering Resources (2023)

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In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. Old industries expanded and many new ones, including petroleum refining, steel manufacturing, and electrical power, emerged. Railroads expanded significantly, bringing even remote parts of the country into a national market economy.

Industrial growth transformed American society. It produced a new class of wealthy industrialists and a prosperous middle class. It also produced a vastly expanded blue collar working class. The labor force that made industrialization possible was made up of millions of newly arrived immigrants and even larger numbers of migrants from rural areas. American society became more diverse than ever before.

Not everyone shared in the economic prosperity of this period. Many workers were typically unemployed at least part of the year, and their wages were relatively low when they did work. This situation led many workers to support and join labor unions. Meanwhile, farmers also faced hard times as technology and increasing production led to more competition and falling prices for farm products. Hard times on farms led many young people to move to the city in search of better job opportunities.

Americans who were born in the 1840s and 1850s would experience enormous changes in their lifetimes. Some of these changes resulted from a sweeping technological revolution. Their major source of light, for example, would change from candles, to kerosene lamps, and then to electric light bulbs. They would see their transportation evolve from walking and horse power to steam-powered locomotives, to electric trolley cars, to gasoline-powered automobiles. Born into a society in which the vast majority of people were involved in agriculture, they experienced an industrial revolution that radically changed the ways millions of people worked and where they lived. They would experience the migration of millions of people from rural America to the nation's rapidly growing cities.

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Talbot County business, agency, and nonprofit leaders interested in learning more about the power of the data available through the Delmarva Index are encouraged to attend a free presentation on Tuesday, June 18 beginning at noon at the Easton branch of the Talbot County Free Library. 

Participants in the “Let’s Talk Numbers” program will learn more about leveraging the data tools in the Delmarva Index, a regional data hub developed by the Eastern Shore Regional GIS Cooperative that presents publicly available datasets and visualizations. The free tool lends a new and much-needed regional perspective to planning and decision-making while helping to meet the challenges facing the Delmarva region thanks to its unique geography and political boundaries.

Project Manager Erin Silva and GIS Analyst Anastassiya Suprunova will give an overview of the Delmarva Index and how to use some of the datasets it includes. The program is sponsored by the Talbot County Department of Economic Development and Tourism in partnership with the Mid-Shore Regional Council, Talbot Family Network, and the Talbot County Free Library. Seating is limited and lunch will be provided.

Cassandra Vanhooser, director of the Talbot County Department of Economic Development and Tourism, says having good data sources ensures that decisions are based on solid evidence and enhances the overall quality and effectiveness of the decision-making process.

“The Delmarva Index is a powerful tool for businesses and policymakers,” Vanhooser says. “It’s also an incredible asset for those of us who live and work on the Eastern Shore and who need data with which to make informed decisions about the communities we serve.”

Nancy Andrews, executive director of the Talbot Family Network, agrees. “Sharing data is a way to promote cooperation among community partners,” she says. “We’re pleased to join our partners in showcasing these useful resources that are available to our county organizations, businesses, and groups in our shared efforts to advance a high quality of life and work in Talbot County.”

The Delmarva Index includes data on Talbot County throughout the 15 catalog topics, including agriculture, business, crime, demographics, economics, education, employment, health, housing, income, manufacturing, politics, population, tourism, and transportation.

Developed and maintained by the Eastern Shore Regional GIS Cooperative (ESRGC), an outreach entity of Salisbury University, the Delmarva Index is made possible through a partnership with the Mid-Shore Regional Council and the Tri-County Council for the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland. The project is supported by the Rural Maryland Council through the Rural Maryland Prosperity Investment Fund.

“Data is one of the most powerful tools we have to make informed decisions about the future,” says Silva. “The Delmarva Index collects, analyzes, and visualizes data to reveal meaningful insights into our local populations, housing, workforce, education, and more.”

Silva says the long-term vision for the Delmarva Index is to serve as an online data repository and visualization tool that will function as a comprehensive data source for demographic, economic, geographic, and social data of the Delmarva region.

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June 6, 2024

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This blog features an interview of Erika Hope Spencer, Reference Specialist, French Collections, Latin American, Caribbean & European Division, Library of Congress and Megan Harris, Reference Librarian, Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

It was 80 years ago today that American troops launched one of the most daring seaborne invasions in history: the Invasion of Normandy. In honor of D-Day, we have an interview with Erika Hope Spencer, Reference Specialist, French Collections, Latin American, Caribbean & European Division and Megan Harris, Reference Librarian, Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center.

Also known as Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy sent more than 150,000 American troops to liberate the French from four years of German Occupation. The weather conditions were far from ideal, with strong winds and cloud cover making for choppy waters in the English Channel and low visibility along the Northern coast of France. However, France was in desperate need of Allied help, and after months of planning, General Dwight D. Eisenhower made the call to proceed with the operation and American troops stormed the Normandy beaches. The Invasion of Normandy was particularly challenging, taking an enormous amount of coordination. There were Air operations, Naval operations, and Ground troops, all with their own requirements, and the inclusion of British and Canadian forces with the Americans added to the complexity of the mission.

Can you tell us about your connection to D-Day?

Erika: My grandmother came of age during the German Occupation of Paris. She often described how after the Allied landing they followed the progress of the troops on a map they put up on the wall. They had small flags that they would put up marking the advance of the troops. She listened devoutly to Radio Londres, as the local papers were not truthful in their war reporting.  She also described the euphoria in the streets of Paris after the Liberation in August of that same summer of 1944, watching tank after tank roll through the streets, Parisians crying and kissing the soldiers. She remembered dyeing old sheets to make French flags to wave at the parade the next day at the Place de la Concorde where they watched their hero, Charles de Gaulle. She met and fell in love with my grandfather soon after that. He opted to stay in Paris after serving in the American Field Service and they met working at l’ Agence Reuters where he was a journalist, and she was a typist. My mother and aunt were born in Paris, but the family moved to DC after several years. But my grandmother kept France close to her heart, and I have traveled there throughout my life to visit with my cousins outside of Orléans. When my oldest son turned 18, I took him to see the Normandy beaches to pay homage to the brave individuals who changed the course of my grandmother’s life. We wanted to see not only the museums, but the towns and the beaches where Allied forces pushed the Germans out of France and liberated the country after four long years of Nazi Occupation. It was one of the most moving and humbling trips of my life.

Megan: Unlike Erika, I don’t have a family connection to D-Day. My grandfather fought in the Pacific Theater during World War II, rather than in Europe. But after working at the Veterans History Project (VHP) for more than 15 years, certain veterans’ stories have started to feel as familiar as family. In 2017, my dad and I took a week-long trip to France, including the Normandy beaches. I wanted to see for myself where the events of June 6, 1944, had taken place, and I wanted to pay tribute to a specific veteran, Robert Ware , whose collection I had gotten to know while working at VHP. Visiting the Normandy American Cemetery, Omaha Beach, and other historic sites was as moving as I envisioned it would be. I found and stood in front of Robert Ware’s grave, taking a moment of silence to acknowledge his life and his sacrifice. Two years later, in 2019, I coordinated a six-part blog series , an online exhibit , and a Story Map to commemorate the 75 th anniversary of D-Day. Through that work, other names and stories, such as Edward Duncan Cameron , have made an indelible mark on my mind. As I wrote in a blog post after returning from Normandy, getting to know the stories of veterans such as Ware and Cameron have profoundly personalized my understanding of D-Day—and I hope that these collections can do the same for others too.

Megan, you mentioned the Veterans History Project, can you share some more about the resources and histories there?

Megan: While soldiers and sailors formed the bulk of the Invasion, D-Day relied on many individuals to successfully navigate such an enormous charge. Engineers, pilots, doctors, and nurses were all vital, especially in the days after the initial landing to continue the effort to push the German Army back. There is no better way to appreciate the sacrifices that these individuals made than hearing and reading their stories. The Veterans History Project  (VHP) of the Library of Congress American Folklife Center (AFC) collects, preserves, and makes accessible the firsthand narratives of U.S. military veterans who served from World War I through more recent conflicts and peacekeeping missions. Since 2000, VHP has preserved thousands of individual veterans’ collections, which offer users an unparalleled archive of primary source material, so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand what they saw, did and felt during their service.

VHP’s holdings include the harrowing stories of over 1500 veterans of the D-Day Invasion. Users can browse our related digital holdings here , or peruse several curated presentations relating to the different roles played by American service members on D-Day.

In addition, to celebrate the 75 th anniversary of D-Day, in 2019 we created “ D-Day Journeys: Personal Geographies of D-Day ,” a Story Map which chronicles the individual journeys of four D-Day veterans. The Story Map combines text, images, and multimedia content—including digitized letters, snapshots, maps, and oral history interviews—for an immersive user experience. Observe the journeys of four men who personally witnessed the invasion of Normandy—and glimpse their lives before, on, and after June 6, 1944.

Erika, can you share any other recommendations?

Erika: Because of my family history, I’ve been wanting to create a research guide on France in World War II, the French Resistance, and the Allied role in the Liberation of France . I knew the Library had extensive collections on these topics, and I had set the 80 th anniversary of D-Day as important marker. Those interested in learning more can find suggestions of books, films, and underground newspapers as well as information about commemorative World War II sites in Normandy. In addition to more scholarly resources, I also wanted to include historical fiction, graphic novels, and films that depict this period in France’s history. Since I have long admired the work of librarians like Megan at the Veterans History Project, I wanted to include resources about the Americans who served during WWII , especially on D-Day, and help others to visit some of the sites in France where they can experience this piece of history.

For those looking to commemorate the 80 th anniversary, there are a host of events in the region of Normandy, France. One of the most powerful sites to visit is the Normandy American Memorial and Cemetery located in Colleville-sur-Mer. President Emmanuel Macron will attend the official state commemoration that day at Omaha Beach, in the town of Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer (Calvados) where 2,500 American soldiers died. While not a public event, there will be a large gathering on Omaha Beach with a concert and fireworks which is open to the public after the commemoration.

From 1-16 June 2024, there will be commemoration ceremonies as well as festivities, parades, picnics, reenactments, and fireworks, along the same stretch of coastline, including across all five landing areas for the Allied troops in 1944—Utah Beach, Omaha Beach, Gold Beach, Juno Beach, and Sword Beach.

Even if it is not possible to be in Normandy for this momentous occasion, planning a future trip is made much easier by the wealth of information available online about museums and other monuments. For more information on the Normandy American Cemetery, the Normandy beaches, and other battle sites, see the Library of Congress research guide on WWII Memorials & Museums in France .

Of course, there is no need to travel anywhere because these digitized collections are open to the global community and give everyone the opportunity to appreciate the experiences of the brave individuals who fought and served, and we offer our continued gratitude for what they preserved.

Thank you, Erika and Megan, for sharing!

Learn more:

• How to Participate in the Veterans History Project
• Search the Veterans History Project Digital Collection
• France in WWII: The French Resistance
• American D-Day Veterans
• The Normandy American Cemetery: WWII Memorials and Museums

Thank you for sharing your connections to the enduring legacy of those who so bravely fought on this day. The resources you provide are an important part of keeping their sacrifice in our collective memory today and for all time. May we never forget.

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If, like me, you’re interested in finding out more about contemporary music, and Southern Maine’s role in its development, you won’t want to miss local author Ford Reich’s presentation being held June 21 presentation here at Libby Memorial Library. He’ll be here to discuss his latest book, “A Long, Long Time Ago: Major Rock and Roll Concerts in Southern Maine, 1955-1977.”

During that time Southern Maine served as a kind of “Off Broadway” where major acts like Bill Haley and His Comets, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and Queen could warm up at venues like the Portland Expo, Lewiston City Hall or the Palace here in Old Orchard Beach before going on to Boston, New York, Philadelphia and other major cities. Joining Ford for this fun and informative discussion will be Jim Leo, the former operations manager at the Cumberland County Civic Center.

We also have something for the younger book lovers this month. Maine author Kalee Gwarjanski will be here the following day, Saturday, June 22 at 12:30 p.m. to kick off our Summer Reading Program. She’ll be tellingl us about her wonderful new children’s book, “Miss MacDonald Has a Farm.” In her highly creative re-working of Old MacDonald Had a Farm, she takes her readers on an imaginative visit to Miss MacDonald’s vegetable farm, where they learn what’s involved in growing tasty and nutritious vegetables. The book is a joyous celebration of healthy eating, plant-based meals, local produce and women farmers.

While we’re on the subject of healthy meals … the Library will be offering nutritious free meals for those under 18 starting June 18. These meals will be served in our Community Room Tuesdays through Friday at 11:30 am.

Finally, if you’re interested in music, we have a real treat on hand for you this month. In addition to Ford Reichs presentation on Southern Maine’s role in Rock history, we’re going to feature movies about major music artists as well. Our Music Movie Mania month includes a film about Bruce Springsteen, “Blinded by the Light” on Friday June 14 and “Bohemian Rhapsody,” a movie about Freddie Mercury, lead singer for the musical group Queen, on Saturday, June 15. The two Friday films will be shown from 3 to 5 p.m. The films will be presented in our Community Room where free popcorn will be available.

You can find out more about these and other exciting summer events by liking our Facebook page, following us on instagram @ooblibrary pr logging onto our website, ooblibrary.org. You can also follow our mascot, Libby Lobster’s, feats of derring-do and derring-don’t at ooblibrary.blogspot.com.

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