From Loriene Roy - 2/28/07

Other questions/content areas to consider:
1. Which units of ALA should be involved/notified of work on this topic?
2. If funding sources are identified, it would be useful to have a
calendar (with deadlines). For example, the deadline for the next round of
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grants is likely to be 15 December 2007.

Cheers,
Loriene

From Christy, Loriene & Kerry's emails on 2/28/07

Hi, all,

Good thinking, Kerry.
Right--finding out information about funding will be very helpful.
Perhaps one step will be to just itemize a few variables that you will try
to answer when you examine other camps available for young people. These
might include, for example:
 1. Age level of participant
 2. Number of participants
 3. Day camp vs. boarding camp?
 4. Location of camp: e.g., on campuses, hotels, recreation area
 5. Length of time/duration of camp
 6. Location (one location; multiple location)
 7. Time of year/schedule slot
 8. Focus (e.g., is there a theme, "leadership," etc.)
 9. Academic claims: is credit awarded?
 10. Other notes about curriculum
 11. Funding: underwriting; tuition; fees, etc.
 12. Products required: do attendees produce products
 13. Notes about staff

Just a start!
Loriene
 

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Kerry Ward wrote:

> Hi Christy (and everyone!) - thanks for the message.  I agree with
> Loriene, and I think your initial items for inclusion - description,
> demand analysis, conclusions/recommendations - are good.  My one
> additional recommendation would be to include a small section on
> financial assumptions.  For example, do other organizations (esp.
> nonprofits) offer career camps?  If so, how do they finance them?  Are
> there corporate sponsors, do participants pay a fee to help defray
> costs, etc.  What are the major expenses - facilities rental, staffing,
> programming, travel, etc.?  I definitely do not mean a line by line
> budget, but just an overview, i.e., "Based on research of similar
> programs, possible revenue sources for Library Camp would be a) b) c)
> and likely expenses would be a) b) c)."  That's my thought but Loriene
> or others may have more to say.  Please let me know if you need any
> other input, and thanks for your ongoing work!  Kerry
> 
> Kerry Ward
> Executive Director
> Association for Library Trustees and Advocates (ALTA), a division of
> the American Library Association (ALA)
> 50 E. Huron Street
> Chicago, IL  60611-2795
> Phone: 800-545-2433, ext. 2160
> Fax: 312-280-3256
> E-mail: kward@ala.org
> http://www.ala.org/alta
>  

> >>> Loriene Roy  02/28/07 12:31 PM >>>

> 
> Hi, Christy,
> I'll let Kerry weigh in as well.
> As a first step, you might outline the various elements that might
> appear
> in such a feasibility study. You've made an excellent start, below.
> 
> You might:
> 1. Provide some narrative, introductory section (a couple of
> paragraphs).
> This could set the stage---the need, the interest, etc.
> 2. Then you could introduce questions: what do we need to know to
> prepare
> such a feasibility study?
> 3. You could see how close you might come to creating a full
> study--what
> can you address/answer? You might divide the content areas, start to
> pull
> the segments together, and see how the document emerges. The more
> details,
> the better, though I'm interested in any of your thoughts.
> 
> Let's see what others say!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Loriene
> 
> 
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Donaldson, Christy wrote:
>  

> > Loriene and Kerry,
> > 
> > We have some questions about the feasibility study for the National
> > Library Camp project we're doing.  How in-depth do we need to get

> with

> > this study? 
> > 
> > Most feasibility studies include a description of the project with
> > various scenarios and benefits; a demand analysis/market assessment
> > which includes an industry description and competitiveness, market
> > potential and projections of attendance/interest;
> > technical/organizational feasibilities such as facilities/place,
> > technology needed, and business structure; financial/economic

> aspects

> > such has capital requirements, cost analysis, and return on

> investment;

> > and conclusions and recommendations.
> > 
> > I definitely see us needing to put together the description aspect,

> the

> > demand analysis, and conclusions and recommendations. Do we need to

> go

> > as in-depth as to include the technical/organizational and
> > financial/economic aspects of the study?
> > 
> > Thanks for clarifying!
> > =Christy

From Mario's Emails on 2/2707

Two weeks ago, I spoke with an old friend from college who is now the Director of the Educational Opportunity Programs Center at USC.  We began to speak about some of the programs, such as Upward Bound, that he oversees.  I began to think about my own campus, George Mason University, as well as others and we already have programs like this established...why not begin working with these groups, I thought?

*Something to keep in mind is that these groups may be focused on low-income, first-generation college students...I would possibly like a wider audience, but this would still be a great resource to tap into.

stay tuned...more to come!!!

Here some info on Upward Bound:
Program Overview
USC EOPC's federally funded programs provide year-round academic enrichment and precollege programs for more than 2,500 neighborhood youth:

   * Upward Bound
   * Upward Bound Mathematics and Science Regional Center
   * Educational Talent Search Project

USC EOPC administers the programs for low-income, first-generation, college-bound young people between the ages of 11 and 27. The annual budget for the center is more than $1 million. USC EOPC is a partnership between USC and the U.S. Department of Education.

-Mario

************************************************************************************
Mario A. Ascencio

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Ok, I just met with a member of the George Mason University Early Identification Program (EIP) .  It seems that their program attracts 7th-12th graders from six counties in northern Virginia; approximately 500 students.

I was bouncing ideas, such as inviting these students for a national camp.  The person told me that it would be fine, but that they have their own summer camp here on campus during the summer...so it couldn't be that same week.  LIGHT BULB! Why not piggy back on this summer camp and others like it on other campuses around the country?  George Mason University is 18 miles west of Washington, DC...or as I like to call it "Libraryland"...and if we did want to piggy back...I think George Mason University would be a great hosting institution.  This just an idea and I would have to of course check with all the right people.

Cheers!

-Mario

Feasibiltiy study start...

I think the first thing we need to do is decide what the feasibility study will cover. Then we can start making lists of all the questions, options, alternatives and information necessary to put the study together.

Most feasibility studies include a description of the project with various scenarios and benefits; a demand analysis/market assessment which includes an industry description and competitiveness, market potential and projections of attendance/interest; technical/organizational feasibilities such as facilities/place, technology needed, and business structure; financial/economic aspects such has capital requirements, cost analysis, and return on investment; and conclusions and recommendations.

I definitely see us needing to put together the description aspect, the demand analysis, and conclusions and recommendations. We need to find out if we need to go as in-depth as to include the tech/org and fin/econ aspects of the study... I'll email Loriene and Kerry to find out about what all we need to include.

Then we need to break it down into pieces that we can all work on. After we have all the pieces written up, we'll have to take the most important parts and put them on the poster. I can do a lot of the demand analysis parts and I think we should all have input on the conclusions and recommendations though it'd probably be easiest for one person to write up.

Am I missing something here?
=Christy

Let's get started (or am i already behind?)

Hi all!

Some other info to think about and consider. . .

I was a part of the Knowledge River program at University of Arizona's School of Information Resources and Library Sciences. I met with the Executive Director this weekend in terms of program continuing and grant writing details. Program for the last school year had incorporated a high school component in terms of exposing hs students to the library field -- this helped them continue funding from IMLS. I think the next round of IMLS funding might be tied to Laura Bush's iniatives, maybe there will be some way for us to connect with KR scholars at UA library school, implement the camp with collaboration from KR program and scholars? I mentioned this to the director. . . she's open to discussion. Maybe we could come up with a camp based on Laura Bush's initiative "Ready to Read, Ready to Learn" something like Get Ready, Get Set to Inspire NextGen Librarians. . ."

Any thoughts?

Have a good week!!

Jolie
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Loriene Roy wrote:

Hello, quick note,
In terms of a preparing a feasibility study--it would be helpful to
prepare a variety of options and alternatives for a national library camp.
Then, prepare a listing of questions to ask about each of these--location,
length of time, age of participants, etc.
Some of the familiar and academic related camps for young people include:

1. Duke's Talent Identification Program
2. Concordia College (Minnesota) and its language campus
3. National guitar camp

My son attended Duke TIP two years in a row and will be in his second year
at national guitar camp. I attended Concordia's language camp (Spanish)
for 3 years.

Loriene

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On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, florante ibanez wrote:

Howdy and Aloha,
I noticed that Mario had already added his own bio page and added our
reception pictures to our Emerging Leaders Project Q - Wiki space....

I finally figured out how to do it too....  I'll probably re-write this
when I have more time.....

Can Jolie & Christy add yours too? If you need help please feel free to
ask Mario or myself.....  I also added my website and email address.

Anyways I have made a contact (by accident) of a local high school
senior girl interested in Librarianship. I'm thinking we could ask her
about what things she would expect from a National Library Camp. And
while at UCLA today I met a 2nd year student in Info Studies interested
in our project and has experience from when she had attended SPACE CAMP
to offer us. Also while at UCLA, Cindy Mediavilla, who teaches part time
in IS and is also connected/consulting for the California State
Librarian is very interested in our project too..... She suggested
maybe we could perhaps do a "pilot project" Library Camp in California
and ask for funding....

We still need to figure out basic questions like offering maybe ONE big
central camp where students have to fly in to participate ($$$) or maybe
several/few localized camps geographically distributed (but need more
people to organize). Maybe we could build a model - test it as a pilot -
document it and encourage local areas or state chapters to convene their
own each summer?
Anyways it's late and I'm about to leave work now......

I suppose we should be blogging this and adding our comments... but I'll
try to figure that out tommorrow......

Take care - God Bless and Happy V-Day!!!