2019-11-18 Sustainability WG Agenda and Notes

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ITAV Assessment

Survey results, secondary analysis (table below)

• 70% manager/executive
• 80% assign ARKs
• top vote getter (below): promotion

Draft membership pitch

Starting meeting from where Nov 14 AG meeting left off...
KW: what would a public announcement say?
KE: good question, what's the message
KW: the MVP, to keep essential services going, 
KW: 40 x $5K could work; portico does it by size, but there are costs to
administer a tiered model
LA: it's easy to talk about this as a one-time thing; different answer for
doing it for the long term; membership fatigue needs to be counter-acted;
in parallel with a m'ship strategy, could you have strategic partners that
could take on some of the burden so that the membership ask is lower;
also, how can members become partners;
very hard to count on in-kind contributions in future; but you can look at
what's been done to see if a member qualifies for the next year
KW: worst thing that can happen is if the fee changes, since libraries have a
hard time dealing with that kind of change; so make sure not to low ball
initially;
LA: if you pre-pay, you should get a multi-year benefit; they have to feel like
their fee is really keeping things going
KW: why would anyone pay if CDL is not saying they're pulling out
...
LA: the longer an org has done, it the harder it can be to get out of it;
here's where partners can help
...
KE: will talk to GW about getting a clear message out
KE: per KW, tiered membership can be hard to administer; per LA, partners
should be sought to lower the ask