This section is for information on your library’s community partners, contracts or memoranda of understanding with its partners, consortia memberships, events involving the library, and the library’s friends group and/or foundation.
- A list of your library’s community partners, what you do for them, and what you ask them for. As trusted centers of the community, libraries are in a unique position to attract potential partners and to provide resources and benefits to organizations with common goals. In a time of diminishing funds and increasing demands, partnerships are essential to meeting community needs and to sustaining an active and engaging environment for patrons. For more information, explore these posts from Public Libraries Online.
- If your library is a member of a consortium or best practices group, include details about your responsibilities as a member, the contact person for the group, and how to reach them.
- Dates of annual library, city, county, regional, and state events and programs and how your library participates in these.
- Information on your library’s friends group and their tax-exempt status, such as 501(c)(3).
- Information on your library’s foundation and their tax-exempt status, such as 501(c)(3).
- Contracts or memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with local partners. An MOU is an agreement between two parties that is not legally binding, but which outlines the responsibilities of each of the parties to the agreement. An MOU is often the first step toward creating a legally binding contract.