Creating a Staff-Led Strategic Plan: A Practical Guide for Libraries - Softcover

Mathuews, Katy B.; Spellman, Ryan A.

9781440879111: Creating a Staff-Led Strategic Plan: A Practical Guide for Libraries

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ISBN 10: 1440879117 ISBN 13: 9781440879111

Publisher: Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2023

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Taking a staff-led approach, this book helps libraries of all types create their own meaningful and authentic strategic plans while demystifying a process that can bring many benefits to the organization.

With dwindling budgets to pay for consultants and a growing interest in collaboration across the organization, libraries are increasingly taking a do-it-yourself approach to strategic planning.

This book takes a step-by-step approach to grassroots strategic planning for libraries of all types. The authors, who led a successful strategic planning process at their own library, provide practical advice and detailed information to guide library personnel through their own process. Topics include aligning with institutional and community values, creating vision and mission statements, researching stakeholder needs, conducting environmental scans, collaborative drafting of the plan, communication strategies, and implementation and assessment of the plan. Each chapter helps librarians create a strategic plan for a broad spectrum of libraries, including K–12, post-secondary, public, and special libraries. A unique feature of the book is its emphasis on the ways in which different library types can collaborate to meet shared goals.

This book is a one-stop-shop, providing everything library staff will need to create a strategic plan without searching for additional sources.

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About the Authors

Katy B. Mathuews is the Executive Director and CEO of OhioNet, USA. She holds degrees in business administration, economics, library and information science, and higher education administration. Mathuews served on the Academic Library Association of Ohio's executive board and the Portsmouth Public Library board of trustees in Portsmouth, OH. She is a coauthor (with Daniel J. Harper) of Academic Library Makerspaces: A Practical Guide to Planning, Collaborating, and Supporting Campus Innovation (2020).

Ryan A. Spellman is an Online Learning Librarian at Northern Kentucky University's Steely Library, USA. He has a master's of library and information science from Kent State University and a bachelor of science in communication from Ohio University. Prior to his academic library career, Ryan spent 14 years working in a public library setting.

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