[Michlib-l] No Reservation Recommendations

[Rebecca Higgerson]

Dear Director Colleagues,

In May 2018, the Woodlands Library Cooperative Continuing Education
Committee, under Director Kate Pohjola Andrade, offered a workshop titled,
“The care and feeding of our library buildings” in Jackson, Michigan.  I
attended and at the conclusion of the program Kate and I began discussing
how public libraries could better share facilities-related information.  As
it often happens, the discussion grew into the larger issue of how
libraries can share a wide variety of vendor information with each other
without redundancy.   The concept on which we settled was to offer a
moderated website where directors can provide contact information for
companies with whom they’ve had a positive experience.  Thus “No
Reservation Recommendations” (NRR) was born!  Shauna Quick, Circulation
Manager at Brandon Township Public Library, was brought into the project to
design the website and ensure its functionality.



Our “No Reservation Recommendations” website <https://nrr.ninja/> will
provide you with more vendor options in an ever expanding area
of categories and *arranged by cooperative boundaries*.  However, in order
to ensure that we have a robust database, we need all of you to submit
those positive recommendations.  Because, as we know, there is nothing
better than recommendations from our trusted colleagues.



To date we have the following categories:

·         Attorneys

·         Auditors

·         Branding/Logos

·         Carpet

·         Doors

·         Electricians

·         Flooring

·         Maintenance Plans

·         Millage Campaigns

·         Other

·         Painters

·         People Counters

·         Phones

·         Plumbers

·         Printing/Copiers

·         Roofs

·         Security Staff

·         Security Systems

·         Strategic Plans (in-house)

·         Strategic Plans (contracted)



>From now until we officially launch the website <https://nrr.ninja/> at the
MLA Conference in October, we simply ask that you submit “No Reservation”
company contact information.  If it’s for a category not on the list above,
please submit under “Other” and we’ll be happy to create a new
category.  *Also,
if you are seeking information in a category not yet on the list, we are
happy to put out a request to the listservs and ask our fellow directors to
submit; simply email me directly and let me know.*



We have a list of “rules” on the “Submit a Recommendation” page:

   - Only Library Directors may submit recommendations
   - Library Directors submit vendors with whom they have had positive
   experiences
   - Library Directors respond to requests from other libraries seeking
   more detail
   - It is the responsibility of the Library Director seeking
   recommendations to fully research the vendors beyond the NRR website
   - Anyone can access and review NRR recommendations



This project will work only if directors state-wide get behind it and submit
recommendations <https://nrr.ninja/>.  So please submit always and often!
https://nrr.ninja





Sincerely,

Rebecca Higgerson





*Rebecca Higgerson*

Director

Brandon Twp Public Library

304 South Street

Ortonville MI 48462

248-627-1474



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