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Library Planning to Target YearCommunity Meeting
Meeting Date

What single word defines the Library for you? [List]
Library…

Purpose
Through dialog and sharing of information
To envision the best future
To envision the best Library as a part of that community
To learn and listen and share opinion, facts, & knowledge to help library board and staff develop a strategic plan

Agenda for Meeting
4:00 Openers
4:30 Community vision for town
5:15 Library landscape
5:40 Library tour
6:00 Supper
6:30 Library vision
7:30 Wrap-up, evaluation, next steps

What’s important about libraries?
Healthy libraries indicate healthy communities
Economic health
Educational health
Cultural health
Community health

Planning Context
U.S. public libraries have strong planning culture
Long history and experience
Vermont DOL encourages local library planning through standards program
Has the library built a plan before?

Library planninggrounded in community need
Community vision and need
Library as a part of that
Addressing needs
Serving the vision

Process this time
Community task force – conversation, gather input and data. Two meetings.
Staff retreat – full day to take community input, knowledge of program
Meet with town board, town department heads, and focus groups
Write plan, and use it!

Planning
Strategic Plan
Long Range Plan
Facilities Plan
Capital Plan
Service Plan
Development Plan
Technology Plan

Town- The vision

Town demographic profile
Population, 2008 est.-
Growth 1990 – 2000 % (VT 8.2%)
Growth 2000 – 2008 %
Ethnicity – % white, 2000 census
Median age - (VT, 37.7)
65 and older – %
Under 18 - %

Town– demographic profile (2)
Median household income – (1999)$51,000 (VT - $41,000)
Education levels
Less than H.S. – 8%
Beyond High School – 64%
Bachelor’s or higher – 28%

Community visioning via SWOT
Breakout groups (by table)
1. Appoint a recorder and reporter
2. Brainstorm for the community
3. Strengths and weaknesses (internal)
4. Opportunities and threats (external)

Strengths and Weaknesses
[List]

Opportunities and Threats
[List]

Elements of a vision
[List]

TheCommunity and the Library Landscape

Public libraries are changing
7/2010: Amazon sold more titles for the Kindle than hardcover books in the previous 3 months
Delivery methods are changing rapidly (smartphones, Netflix, ListenUp VT for audiobooks and ebooks)
Libraries are busier than ever, especially as public computer centers

Public libraries are the same
All public libraries
Lend materials
Provide ‘certified’ information
Provide a “third place,” a community anchor, a commons
Are unique among public institutions in the breadth of audience and of function

Public libraries and the economy
One dollar on public libraries yields $4 to $8 back to the community
Vermont public libraries return $7.41 for every $1 expended.
Small business, “creative economy,” “third space,” “digital natives” rely on libraries

Value of public library services
http://www.vermontlibraries.org/library-use-value-calculator

Sources of support
Planning Town: ? %local tax income, ? % other
Vermont average :72.9% local tax, 27.1% other
National averages: 84.1% local tax, 15.9% other
2008-2009 VT Public Library Statistics

Spending on public library services
Per capita, monthlyVermont average: $2.61
Annual:
Vermont average, 2008 - $31.28
Town Library, 2008 - $
Vermont average, 2006 - $29.44
National average, 2006 - $33.24

Sources of support
Town: ? % local tax income, 7% other
Vermont averages:73% local; 27 other
National averages: 91%; 8% other

Library tourand supper

Library…
[List one word that sums up the library]

Library as Community Resource
Small groups – Brainstorm
1. what the library now does that you know about
2. What it could / should do, money no object

Get crazy!
Be imaginative!

Results – Library conversations
[List]

Dreams
[List]

Results – Library conversations

Next steps
Staff retreat
Focus group or interview for missing audience
This group hear and add
Board and staff work on plan
Board adopts, takes to town

Evaluation of meeting process
What went well today?
Changes for the next meeting?

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