Airdrie Library Strategic Planning Session

Introductions and Expectations

Tell us about yourself!• Your name• Groups you represent in the community /

“hats” you wear• Something about yourself• Any expectations you have for the day

Why we’re here today

• One step in creating a Strategic Plan

• This is a community needs assessment

The library’s planning process

• “Strategic Planning for Results” Start with community needs Pick predefined “service responses” that fill

community needs Develop goals and objectives that put the service

responses into action Implement the plan

Where you fit in

Planning Committee Board and Staff

Select Library

Priorities

Write Goals and Objectives

Develop Action Plans

Reallocate Resources

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Consider Local Community

Define Community Needs

Today we will…

1. Think about the community as it is today and how it should be in the future.

2. Create a list of community needs.3. Learn about the library as it is today.4. Learn about services that libraries can deliver.5. Link community needs to library service

responses.6. Create some preliminary recommendations.

Community Visioning

What should the community be like 10 years from now?

The community today

What internal and external forces will help the community get to its

ideal future, or will hold it back?

Community Needs

Given the conditions today, what does the community require to achieve

the desired future?

Airdrie Library

A Library Service Response is what a library does for, or offers to, the public in an effort to meet a set of well-defined community needs.

The Library Service Responses

PLA Service Responses

BE AN INFORMED CITIZEN Local, National, and World Affairs

BUILD SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRISES Business and Non-Profit Support

PLA Service Responses

CELEBRATE DIVERSITY Cultural Awareness

PLA Service Responses

CONNECT TO THE ONLINE WORLD Public Internet Access

PLA Service Responses

CREATE YOUNG READERS Early Literacy

PLA Service Responses

DISCOVER YOUR ROOTS Genealogy and Local History

PLA Service Responses

EXPRESS CREATIVITY Create and Share Content

PLA Service Responses

GET FACTS FAST Ready Reference

PLA Service Responses

KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY Community Resources and Services

PLA Service Responses

LEARN TO READ AND WRITE Adult, Teen, and Family Literacy

PLA Service Responses

MAKE CAREER CHOICES Job and Career Development

PLA Service Responses

MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS Health, Wealth, and Other Life Choices

PLA Service Responses

SATISFY CURIOSITY Lifelong Learning

PLA Service Responses

STIMULATE IMAGINATION Reading, Viewing and Listening for Pleasure

PLA Service Responses

SUCCEED IN SCHOOL Homework Help

PLA Service Responses

UNDERSTAND HOW TO FIND, EVALUATE, AND USE INFORMATION: Information Fluency

PLA Service Responses

VISIT A COMFORTABLE PLACE Physical and Virtual Spaces

PLA Service Responses

WELCOME TO CANADAServices for New Immigrants

PLA Service Responses

Which Service Responses?

Change = reallocated resources

The plan will be implemented with new fundingOR without it

Community Needs

Library Priorities

Library Goals

Library Objectives

The Plan will be a Guide…

Library Activities

… for Reallocating Resources

Staff Needed

Collections Needed

Facilities Needed

TechnologyNeeded

Be an Informed

CitizenCelebrateDiversity

Connect to the Online

World

Discover Your Roots

Express Creativity

Know Your Community

Learn to Read and

Write

Make Career Choices

Satisfy Curiosity

Stimulate Imagination

Succeed in School Information

FluencyVisit a

Comfortable Place

Welcome to the US

Get Facts Fast

Create Young Readers

Make informed Decisions

Build SuccessfulEnterprises

Build Successful Enterprises

Selected service responseswill get more resources

Select Your Service Responses Based on Community Needs

Community Need Service Response

Children, Teens and Adults Will Have a Variety of

Leisure Activities STIMULATE IMAGINATION

Decide What Needs the Library Could Address

NEEDS DECISION TREE

Connecting needs to service responses

What service responses will meet local needs?

Prioritizing service responses

Which service responses are most important to local community needs?

Conclusion and Next Steps

• Information will go to library staff and board• Board will respond to you• You will have one more meeting to finalize

your recommendations

Thank youfor your time and effort.