Consulting

At Flurry Consulting, we tailor our services to your needs. We partner with libraries looking for innovative ways to provide new or improved services to meet the changing needs of today’s users. We combine extensive experience in all types of libraries and library services with a fresh, innovative, and creative perspective. Below are examples of areas where Flurry Consulting can help, but it is not meant to be an exhaustive list. Please contact us to discuss your needs.

Leadership, Management, and Team Building

  • Managing multi-generational teams
  • Project management for librarians
  • Managing technical staff
  • Library-IT collaboration
  • Library-faculty collaboration

Digital Libraries, Institutional Repositories, Digital Media

  • Developing a digital repository program
  • Evaluating digital asset management systems
  • Building digital collections to support teaching
  • Building digital collections to support research
  • Building digital collections to support administrative needs
  • Effective content recruitment strategies

Information Literacy and Library Instruction

  • Moving from bibliographic instruction to research workshops
  • Creating a joint information literacy-technology fluency program
  • Active learning techniques for library instructors
  • Peer review for library instructors

Assessment and Marketing

  • Focus groups
  • Quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • Evaluation of existing services and programs

Technology Training

  • Web 2.0 for librarians: hands-on introductions to blogs, wikis, social networking
  • Setting up a library Facebook or MySpace presence
  • Screencasts
  • Tools for collaboration, communication, workflows, productivity
  • Hands-on introduction to open source software and systems
  • Using Linux Ubuntu on library computers
  • Introduction to digital video

Event Planning

  • Planning and hosting conferences, workshops
  • Marketing, advertising support
  • Graphic design and branding for events

Metadata

  • Metadata training for catalogers
  • General metadata training for librarians
  • Encoding legacy finding aids with Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
  • Creating data dictionaries and data rules for digital collections
  • Working with industry metadata standards and thesauri (Dublin Core, VRA Core, CDWA, Getty AAT, Getty ULAN, Getty TGN, etc.)
  • Creating and maintaining taxonomies
  • Creating and maintaining thesauri

Library Systems

  • Next-generation library systems — evaluating, implementing
  • Consortial OPACs
  • Evaluating open source library systems

Technology Implementation and Hosting Services

  • Federated searching
  • Web site hosting
  • Wordpress installations
  • Migrating to open source library systems

Knowledge Management

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