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Surviving a Merger - WHSLA Wisdom Chat

WHSLA Wisdom Chat: Surviving a Merger: Real Life Stories from Librarians Who Have Lived It

Who: Michele Matucheski, MLS, AHIP and Kellee Selden, MLIS - Ascension Wisconsin Clinical Librarians

When: Nov. 6, 2019 at 1 pm

Where: Online Presentation and Chat for WHSLA Members

Description: Success stories and lessons learned from 2 WHSLA Librarians who have gone through library integration following multiple hospital/health system mergers. Speakers will address needs assessment, licensing, budgeting, merging services, technical challenges, and other considerations. For hospital librarians who are looking to centralize services, have recently merged, or will be impacted by a planned merger.

* Surviving a Merger (pptx)

* Surviving a Merger for WHSLA Wisdom Chat (docx)

What: Immersion Session on Strategies for Library Mergers and Centralizing Library Services

When: Tuesday, May 7, 2019; 4 – 6 pm

Where: Medical Library Association Meeting in Chicago, IL

Who: Angela Spencer, Linda Schwartz, Heather Martin, Michelle Kraft, Michele Matucheski, Angela Tucker.

Description: This session will provide success stories and lessons learned from librarians who have gone through library centralization or library integration following hospital mergers. Panelists will address needs assessment, licensing, budgeting, technical challenges, solo perspectives, and other considerations. For hospital librarians who are looking to centralize services, have recently merged, or will be impacted by a planned merger.

I talked about Merging / Unifying Library Services.

* Strategies for Library Mergers and Centralizing Library Services (Full) (pptx)

* Unifying Library Services (docx)

MM's script for MLA Presentation for Panel Discussion on Merging Libraries 5-2019

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Surviving a Merger - WHSLA Wisdom Chat