This document outlines the tasks, priorities, challenges, and expectations for developing and implementing a strategy for Norwegian county libraries. It discusses coordinating between municipal, county, and national libraries. Key tasks include initiating projects, communicating, and supporting local library development. Challenges include competence mapping, user surveys, collecting statistics, and implementing simple projects. Successful change processes require explaining needs, involving multiple levels, keeping milestones, providing information, showing leadership, and maintaining employee well-being during changes. The main expectations are acceptance, recognition, collaboration, and funding.

1. TASKS, PRIORITIES AND
CHALLENGES
IN
DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING
A STRATEGY
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2. Our Library Landscape
Municipal
Libraries
County
Libraries
The
National Library
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3. Norwegian County Libraries
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4. Our tasks
Coordinate
Develop
Initiate
Communicate Support
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5. Competancebuilding
Develop Develop the
ourselves local libraries
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6. Challenges
 Competence mapping
 User surveys
 Statistics
 Simple projects
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7. Experience of change processes – some criterias of success
 Explain the need for restructuring
 Political basis strengthens the legitimacy
 Make project plans
 Involve multiple levels of your organization
 Keep milestones and progress and take decisions when
they are scheduled
 Information, information, information
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8.  Show visible leadership
 Be patient and stay focused
 What feels close to us is most important to all of us!
 Resistance must be given time and place
 Well-being of the working environment must not be
kept down in times of change
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9. Expectations?
Acceptance
Recognition
Collaboration
Funding
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