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Library Consulting, P.A., is an organization of library professionals who: Provide services as individuals or in association with one another or others, depending on the nature of the project and the desires of the client. Specialize in the development of library building programs, community surveys, focus groups, staff and service program assessments. Help clients with strategic planning, management and reorganization studies, organizational and funding analysis. Come to our clients with a wide variety of experience as professionals within public libraries, as consultants for libraries of all sizes and types, and as leaders in the library field who stay abreast of changes and trends in the library field. Leverage their extensive experience in order to provide visionary, yet practical consulting services to public library boards and staff, local governments and architects. Provide customer focused services and on time delivery of reports on matters relating to all aspects of public library development and services in order to help clients achieve their goals. As individuals, each of us has extensive experience in public library administration, library services and building planning, project management, system services and development; staff development, building site selection, and intergovernmental relations. Library Consulting, P.A. very reasonable fees are negotiated on a project basis and may vary from a flat fee, flat fee with expenses, per diem fee with expenses, or per diem fee with a maximum override. In some instances, Library Consulting may be a sub-contractor to an architect or other consultant.

We provide creative and practical solutions for libraries and library organizations that want to position their organizations for the future through strategic planning, organizational development, and building solutions.

We are library consultants, designers and facility planners. We recommend and facilitate planning activities for large and small building projects as program consultants. We worked on over 500 planning projects, creating 40 years of library research documentation and visual schematics. We have develop guidelines for academic and government libraries. We have developed ARS systems and master facilities plans for systems, urban libraries, and community libraries. We have helped librarians improve their planning efforts for many different types of libraries academic libraries, public libraries, medical, law and government and special. Our library consultants are technology specialists who provide efficient and effective designs including Mixed Media, video, lighting, LEED and Green Designs. We work with facility planners, administration and IT managers as an integrated team. Our international experience includes the 14 years consulting for the National Library of Singapore, 10 years consulting for New York Public Library, 8 years working for the University of Illinois, Chicago, 10 years working for Long Island University (CW post). We have performed over 500 workshops on library space planning. These include: Stanford University, Northeastern University, New Orleans Public Library, Federal Library and Information Center (LOC) and Infopeople workshops. Library building workshops include ebook research, automation, technical services, acquisitions, management and studies on the library of the future. Our library consultants use a solid methodology to provide for sound decisionmaking. The outcomes from our work include physical and technical design solutions. For example, we developed new combinations of library services and technology centers. It was a multiyear master planning framework that included distance learning, automation, succession planning, staff workflows, master planning. It included options for the library management to consider. Indeed, the building requirements for a library can be complex. Our clients benefit from past research; library building, library service planning, efficiency studies and organizational development.