Curtis Rogers Consulting, LLC

Providing training and consulting services to libraries and non-profits.

2022-2023 Annual Update

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Dr. Curtis Rogers

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It’s been a wonderful second year of retirement and consulting! I continue to get wonderful support from a group of library consultants in the ALA CORE Library Consultant group that meets online every other month. I am happy to announce that I will chair this group beginning July 1, 2023. I hope to increase attendance at our online meetings and offer a few opportunities for online networking and learning.

I have also joined the Consultants for Libraries community directory. If you’re a library-related consultant, you can use the site to connect with prospective clients and referral partners, as well as manage your own listing and share content. I also enjoyed presenting a Meeting Facilitation Skills webinar for the community.

I finished up a two-year stint as a member of the board of the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and continue to work on my Marketing and PR Skills for Friends Groups presentation. In fact, I made this into a two-part webinar series that was hosted by ALA’s United for Libraries.

I’m very appreciative to the organizations that have hired me to work with them this past year and also to the ones with whom I have upcoming engagements. Here is a summary of my past year’s presentations and webinars:

Meeting Skills Webinar for GA Public Library Service

Friends Group Resources and Getting the Most out of your United for Libraries Membership Webinars for Friends of SC Libraries

Series of three webinars for the State Library of North Carolina: Communication Skills for Library Staff, Thinking Forward – Revitalizing Your Keeping Up Habits, and Meeting Facilitation Skills for Library Staff.

Communication Skills webinar for the Tampa Bay Library Consortium

Guest Lecturer for Dr. Clayton Copeland’s 728 course at the University of South Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science

Two webinars on Signage and Thinking Forward Skills for the TN State Library and Archives Public Library Management Institute

Library Signage and Meeting Facilitation Skills Webinars for SEFLIN

Two-part webinar series for ALA’s United for Libraries and Marketing and PR Skills for Friends Groups

Library Signage conference session for Florida Libraries Online Conference

Photography Basics for Library PR webinar for SWFLN

If your library or non-profit organization is interested in setting up a webinar on any of the sessions I provide or if you’re interested in a specific session on something you need that’s not on my list, please feel free to send me an email at curtisrogersconsulting@gmail.com. I’m looking forward to what lies ahead in year number 3!

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About the author

    Dr. Curtis Rogers is a library consultant who has worked in the library and information science field for over 35 years. He has worked at the Union (SC) Carnegie Library, and the Charleston County (SC) Public Library, and retired as the Communications Director of the South Carolina State Library. He has also taught courses at the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Geography, a Master of Library and Information Science, and a Doctor of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of South Carolina. In 2001, he completed the University of the Azores Summer Study Course in Azorean Portuguese Culture and Language and in 2002 completed the Certified Public Manager credential. In 2008, he was President of the SC Library Association. Rogers developed a national library survey on library use of social media for public relations and presented this survey’s results at the 2009 German Library Association Conference and at the State and University Library of Hamburg. He has served as secretary of the board of the Library Marketing and Communications Conference and as secretary of the SC Academy of Authors, as well as chair of the USC School of Library and Information Annual Literacy Leaders (ALL) Awards Committee. He has also served on the Friends of South Carolina Libraries (FOSCL) board and is a member of the ALA CORE Library Consultants group. He is a recipient of the 2015 F. William Summers Outstanding Alumni Award from the USC School of Library and Information Science.