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Development Is Team Work

Development Is Team Work. ALADN 2003. Key Principles of Development. Team work-development is not a solo act, but requires orchestration Giving streams – we do more with less by focusing on priorities. Criteria for Successful Development.

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Development Is Team Work

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  1. Development Is Team Work ALADN 2003

  2. Key Principles of Development • Team work-development is not a solo act, but requires orchestration • Giving streams – we do more with less by focusing on priorities

  3. Criteria forSuccessful Development • Flexible staffing – desirable in good times, critical during budgetary constraints • Responsiveness – always essential in all things

  4. Development IsEverybody’s Business • Dean’s Development Team • Associate University Librarians (AULs) • Development and PR Staff • Faculty • Staff and Student Workers • Friends

  5. Development Is Basedon Library’s Priorities • Excellence in service through facilities, collections, and staff • Access and responsiveness • Vision 2020 goals

  6. On Spirit/One VisionCampaign Priorities • Preservation – shared conservation and storage facility • Scholarly Reputation – strengthening collections in traditional and emerging areas • Service – attracting, retaining, and rewarding outstanding faculty, staff and student workers • Built Environment – enhancing and maintaining inviting library spaces

  7. Development ShouldSupport Instruction/Research “To faculty at Texas A&M, the library IS our laboratory, it IS our archaeological excavation site, it IS our million-dollar piece of state-of-the-art hardware.” James Rosenheim, Professor of History and Director of Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

  8. Strengthening & RewardingFaculty and Staff is an Organization and Development Priority • Internal – library faculty & staff • External – university faculty & staff

  9. How Development Supports Library Faculty and Staff • McLemore Fund – provides funds for advanced study and degrees to faculty & staff • Eight Endowed Professorships – awards to senior faculty

  10. McLemore Educational Opportunity Scholarship • Endowment amount: $500,000 • Type of awards • Faculty pursuing masters or doctorates in their library specialties • Staff pursuing advanced degrees in their library specialties

  11. McLemore Educational Opportunity Scholarship • Number of awards: 19 since inception in 1998 • Total awards amount 1998-2003: $58,079 • Average award amount: $1K – 2K

  12. McLemore Scholarships:It’s not the amount of the gift,it’s the results • 3 PhDs completed • 5 Masters completed • Archival, languages, and technical training for 11 staff & faculty • Promotes career advancement, diversity

  13. Endowed Professorships • Who: Senior faculty with administrative and/or scholarly achievements • Why: a library’s reputation is only as good as its faculty • How: Funded from streams of unrestricted gifts & Friends

  14. Other Gifts that SupportStaff Development • Louise Davis Memorial Staff Awards – 15 awards over 9 years ($1000 each) • Louise & James W. Davis Library Opportunity Scholarships – 9 student awards annually ($500) • Roberts, Huss, Sumner, and Hamill Foundation Student Worker Opportunity Awards – 4 annually ($1000 each)

  15. Continuing Gift Streams • Memorials • Aggie Muster volume • Friends – Madeley Fund, preservation and other special projects

  16. Secret to Successful Fundraisingat Texas A&M

  17. Virtues of SuccessfulLibrary Development • Priorities • Persistence • Patience

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