Douglas County Libraries’ has recently experienced several successful collaborations. Together with a major database vendor, it collaborated with the local school system to meet the electronic resource needs of the 55,000 students, increase their database use, and save taxpayers $100,000 in the process. At the same time, the library worked with chambers of commerce and local economic development councils to provide startup and marketing information to small-to mid-size companies. It has paired with the local election office to provide assistance with election questions. And an innovative program now allows library patrons to check out a pass to local art and wildlife museums. These are those collaborations.

1. Playing in the Community Sandbox
Collaborations with the Public Library
Hutch Tibbetts
Digital Resources Librarian
Douglas County Libraries

3. Successful Collaborations

4. Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield

5. Bill Gates & Paul Allen

6. Sonny & Cher

7. DCL Initiatives

9. The Wildlife Experience

10. Denver Art Museum

11. Dinosaur Ridge

12. Community Involvement

15. Castle Rock Economic Development Council

16. Parker Downtown Development Council

17. Colorado Community Newspapers

18. Transparency Portal

19. John Travola & Olivia Newton-John

22. Vendors

23. Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers

24. Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy

32. Local initiatives

33. Burt & Ernie

34. Elections Office

35. Election call costs
Calculation for cost of election calls for election office:
• Fee received for answering primary calls – $500
• Number of days answering calls – 17
• Fee received per week for calls – $294.12 = ($500 / 17) * 10
• Number of calls received 7/19-31 – 340
• $294.12/week / 340 calls received = .87¢ per call
Calculation for cost of election calls for Contact Center staff:
• Avg cost per hr for CC staff – $16.44
• Time spent on election calls – 10.25 hours
• Number of calls received 7/19-7/30 – 340
• $16.44 * 10.25 = $168.51 cost to answer calls
• $168.51 / 340 = .50¢ per call

37. Partnerships

38. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

43. Collaborations

47. Douglas County Libraries

48. Douglas County School District

49. Cultures
Degrees of Magnitude
Category School District Library District
2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2009 2010 2011
No. Registered
58,723 59,185 60,483 173,660 197,018 217,802
Customers
Budgeted
$451,390,619 $466,102,256 $439,147,638 $21,251,179 $21,639,347 $21,840,000
Revenues
No. FTE
5,158 5,102 4,734 247 227 224
Employees
No. of
84 75 77 7 7 7
Branches
Governing
7, elected 5, appointed
Board

53. AskColorado questions in Douglas County
Question Type Number % Total
General 54 14.03%
Academic 23 5.97%
Business 8 2.08%
Homework, K-12 300 77.92%
TOTAL 385 100.00%

54. AskColorado questions during the week by time
Time Number Percentage
Before 8 a.m. 4 1.61%
Between 8 a.m. & 3 p.m. 123 49.60%
Between 3 p.m. & 5 p.m. 28 11.29%
After 5 p.m. 93 37.50%
TOTAL 248 100.00%

56. Wrinkles

57. Thanks!

58. Questions?
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59. Bud Abbott & Lou Costello

60. Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak