| Strategic / Goal Planning Resources |
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The Rural Library Sustainability Workshops sponsored by WebJunction and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation this past year provided two really nice tools any library (regardless of size/location) may find helpful in strategic planning and/or goal setting:
1) The "Project Continuum" is a handout that covers seven distinct areas that can be used as indicators of what is going on now with your library and possible directions or areas your library would like to focus on in the future. There are Word and PDF versions available from here:
http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=14438 (Word)
http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=11778 (PDF)
This tool can be used as a way for your staff, board, etc., to discuss and explore short-, mid-, or long-term strategic goals by evaluating where your library is today and where you would like your library to be at any point in time in the future (the worksheets may reference a five month timeline but that was just specific to the worshop).
More information about the development of the Project Continuum can be found here as well:
http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=13211 (Word)
2) Once the your staff or board have identified one or more areas they would like to focus on, you can create Action Plans (using the worksheet below) to create/manage tasks to reach those goals.
The Action Plan Worksheet (Word) http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=14422
Using the Action Plan worksheet (Word) http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=14423
Last but not least, there is now an online version of the workshop available from WebJunction:
http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=16846 -- it's free and self-paced, and should be just as useful as the live worshop for the self-evaluation and goal setting sections.
The online version also includes case studies of libraries who have used these tools successfully. (Note that while the focus is on how to sustain public access computing, these tools and information from the online can be used much more broadly).
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