Accomplishments

1. Member surveys

Member surveys on budgets, facilities, and resources, on-line catalogs, staffing, and employee benefits have supported member requests for additional clerical help, improved budgets and benefits, and full faculty status.

2. Library Policies

BAISL has developed a library selection policy for use by its members who have not developed their own policy.

Members have shared written policy statements: resource selection, gift policy, challenge policy, use of library as a study hall.

3. Budget Stretching Ideas

Members have shared methods of supplementing library budgets through graduation, memorial, and birthday gift programs, and through book fairs and used book donations.

4. Facilities Improvement

Experts in the field have presented in-service programs in facilities improvement: designing/redesigning libraries, purchasing library furniture, making creative space allocation. Rotating meetings have given members the opportunity to study the layout and design of other libraries.

5. Professional Training

In-service workshops have been held in designing Internet home pages, in cataloging non-print materials, in teaching the non-plagiarized research paper, in determining library skills for each grade level.

6. Program Development

BAISL members have shared their experiences with new programs and have encouraged others to initiate them in such areas as library orientation, author series, and book weeks.

7. Collection Development

Besides sharing new resources at their meetings, BAISL members have developed and published a multicultural resources guide and have developed a bibliography of materials for gay and lesbian youth.

8. Networking

BAISL has facilitated networking so that library resources such as videotapes, magazines, and books can be shared among member libraries.

9. Information Sharing

Information is shared on a variety of subjects: professional meetings and conferences, book distributors for speedier delivery and better discounts, security systems, computer software, job openings, foundation grants, CD-ROM/video/book titles.

10. California Association of Independent Schools Liaison (CAIS)

Through BAISL's visibility as a strong organization, CAIS librarians have their own representative on the Academic Services Committee.

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