Greetings Colleagues, I trust you're well. Today I'm celebrating the Peabody Fund. Established in 1867 by prominent international investor George Peabody, the fund provided monies for construction, endowments, scholarships, teacher and industrial education for newly freed slaves. By the second decade of the twentieth century, a large number of southern communities had been able to build schools because of efforts by the Peabody Fund. George Peabody earned an estimated $12 million in his lifetime and began his career as a stock boy. FREE LIVE-ONLINE WEBINAR Thursday, September 5, 2:00 - 3:00 ET Strategic Planning for Your Library Instructor: Cynthia L. Henderson, HBCU Library Alliance Board Chair, Executive Director, Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library, Howard University (DC) This class will discuss library strategic planning. It will start by defining strategic planning and planning methods. It will continue by presenting ways in which you may prepare to have a successful strategic planning session and give suggestions on implementation and how to let your administration and users know the library priorities that come out of it. Finally it will provide links to some resources on strategic planning for further information. Cynthia Henderson, Executive Director of the Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library, Howard University (DC) is presenting this webinar. She supervises 4 senior librarians and an executive assistant. Cynthia is accountable for the Library's staff of 16 including 8 librarians, 1 executive assistant, and 7 library technicians. By the end of this class attendants should be able to: * Define and discuss library strategic planning and how to align it with institutional priorities * Know at least two methods (models) of conducting strategic planning * Know your campus IPEDs information as background for strategic planning Who should attend? * Anyone who is thinking about library strategic planning * Anyone who is ready to pursue library strategic planning NOTES: This session is designed for individual participation; each individual must register. To register, paste this link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7DQ8KPZ into your address bar and input the requested information no later than Friday, August 30th. On Tuesday, September 3rd, registrants will receive an email confirmation with detailed log-in and set-up instructions for the Adobe Connect software. Stay tuned! Respectfully, Sandra SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-702-5854 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.