How a Public Library Shared Its Databases, Built Relationships and Saved Taxpayers Money The scenario: On one side, a school district with 55,000 students lost its funding for online databases. On the other, a library district wasn’t generating enough use of its electronic resources. What did they do? Collaborate. Discover what Douglas County Schools and Douglas County Libraries did to create a successful partnership, overcoming cultural and financial obstacles, promoting information literacy, and increasing database use to benefit the whole county.

1. 70 New Branches Overnight Linda Sturgeon Hutch Tibbetts Laurie Van Court Douglas County Libraries, Castle Rock, CO

2. Or, How a Public Library Shared Its Databases, Built Relationships and Saved Taxpayers Money

3. A little history

6. Resources Total 2008 Logins: Selected Douglas County Libraries Databases 564 Science Resource Center 965 Opposing Viewpoints 1,859 Literature Resource Center 3,092 Biography Resource Center 262 EBSCO MAS Ultra School Edition 1,109 Student Resource Center Gold 192 EBSCO Middle Search Plus 1,106 ABC-CLIO History & Government 1,316 World Book Online 4,169 CultureGrams 306 EBSCO Kids Search 2008 Uses Database

7. Cultures Degrees of Magnitude 5 members, appointed 7 members, elected Governing Board 7 84 No. of Branches 247 5,158 No. FTE Employees (2008) $21,251,179 $451,390,619 2009 Budget 173,660 58,723 No. Reg. Customers (2008) Library District School District Category

8. Organization charts

9. Douglas County Libraries

10. Douglas County School District

11. School culture Site-based management An approach to school management that shifts responsibility for the governance and control of schools from the central school district authorities into the hands of teachers, administrators, community members, and others at the level of the individual school… Collins, John W. III, & O’Brien, Nancy Patricia (Eds.). 2003. The Greenwood Dictionary of Education. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

13. School Liaison Program

16. Behind the scenes

18. Gale relationship

23. Be open to trying something new

24. DCL/DCSD School Collaboration Costs $27,970.40 $21,011 $8,975 $7,180 World Book Online $ 7,020 N/A N/A TumbleBooks Library $ 7,155 N/A $0.00 $2,225 Kids InfoBits (added by Gale late in contract) N/A N/A $801 $3,590 CultureGrams $ 16,166 $6,868 $0.00 Opposing Viewpoints $45,019 N/A Literature Resource Center** $ 15,491 N/A N/A Global Issues in Context $19,717 N/A Biography Resource Center** $12,177 Gale Databases (packaging the following) Science Online Modern World History Online Ancient History Online American History Online N/A $0.00 $16,915.20 FactsOnFile (packaging the following) $15,000 $6,077.40 $15,000 AIRS Academic/Business/K-12 pkg. DCSD List Price DCL Cost 2008 DCSD Cost 2008 School portion DCL portion Product

25. Measuring success

28. Internal tracking tools Database Time stamp IP address Referring URL

29. Quantifying results

31. School resources

32. Elementary school resources

33. Middle school resources

34. High school resources

36. Marketing School District website

37. Marketing School website

38. What’s next?

39. Any questions?

40. Thanks!