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The document outlines strategic goals and recommendations for public libraries to remain relevant. It suggests libraries focus on community needs, prioritize impactful programs through partnerships, offer educational opportunities and credentials, understand curriculum, and invest in strategic collections. Libraries are encouraged to experiment, take risks, promote staff, and remove barriers to innovation. The overall message is for libraries to embrace change, focus on outcomes over activities, and tell their impactful stories.
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- 1. Top 7 StrategicPlan Goals for Public Libraries Stephen Abram, MLS Teton County Libraries Staff Circle March 6, 2013
- 2. Every Day inevery way libraries are throwing pebbles
- 5. Libraries core skillis not delivering information Libraries improve the quality of the question and the user experience Libraries are about learning and building communities
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- 9. The Complex ValueProposition Smelly Or Yellow Sex Liquid Appeal?
- 10. What are thegoals? • What are your goals? • What are their goals? • Is there a difference?
- 12. Books, eBooks Serve and Change Magazines Answer and Decide Websites Engage and Discuss Buildings, Branches Link and Learn Rooms Entertain and Play Desks Tell a story Programs Do Nouns can be warehoused Action verbs imply dynamism and ‘cut’ and impact
- 13. Are you lockedinto an old library mindset?
- 14. A Verb .. . an Experience, enlivened for an audience
- 15. A Noun .. . A foundation but not sufficient with professional animation
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- 20. Remaining Relevant andHaving a Positive Impact
- 21. Up Your Game •Know your local community demographics • Focus on needs assessment and social assessments • Prioritize: Love all, Serve all, Save the World means nothing gets done • Priorities are SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, & Time bound • Look for partnerships that add value
- 22. Amazon Chapters/Indigo Barnes & Noble BN BookBrowser Borders Suggestica Inside a Dog (teens) MySpace Books Books We Like OCLC's FictionFinder All Consuming LibraryThing Next Favorite StoryCode Rating Zone Hypatia and AlexLit WhichBook.net AllReaders.com Reader's Robot gnooks
- 23. Up Your Game •Align with Collections – every collection must be justified by programs • Force strategic investment budgeting • Look for partnerships that add value • Don’t go it alone. Focus on large scale sustainable programs • Connect to the longer process not just events • Virtual and in-person • In the Library and reaching out with partners
- 24. What are thereal issues? • Craft versus Industrial Strength • Personal service only when there’s impact • Pilot, Project, Initiative versus Portfolio Strategy • Hand-knitted prototypes versus Production • e.g. Information Literacy initiatives • Discovery versus Search versus Deep Search • eLearning units and program dissemination • Citation and information ethics • Content and repository archipelagos • Strategic Analytics • Value & Impact Measures • Behaviours, Satisfaction • Economic and strategic alignment
- 25. Up Your Game •Align with Collections – But add virtual experiences • Start being Mobile • Look for partnerships that add value • Ensure the program delivery person is embedded including librarians • What are your top 20 question domains? Start there. • Don’t go it alone. Build scalability and sustainability. • Look for replicability – every neighbourhood
- 26. The new bibliography and collection development Ask Us, KNOWLEDGE PORTALS KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING, INFORMATION & RESEARCH COMMONS
- 27. Up Your Game •Start offering diplomas and certificates • Look for partnerships that add value • Offer real educational opportunities not just adjacencies • What does your community need for economic advantage? • What courses to you offer or recommend? (TED, Khan Academy, etc.) • Play and connect
- 28. Up Your Game •Understand the new Common Curriculum (esp. 6-8 and 9-12) • Understand Pedagogy in the context of student experiences and educational goals • Understand human development from early years through teens • Connect across developmental stages, link to schools • Consider partnerships to put teachers in the library • Consider coaches and tutoring partnerships
- 29. Up Your Game •The strong ‘library’ brand – adding dimension • Personal branding – Who are your stars? Promote them. • Program branding • Take risks for attention (AIDA) • Embed your brand beyond the library walls and virtually
- 30. Up Your Game •Grow collections investments in strategic areas (for example economic impact, jobs, early years, hobbies, political alignment, homework, …) • Develop hybrid strategies that are consistent for digital and print and programs • Be obsessive about recommendations and advice • Integrate virtual and physical - hybridize
- 31. Up Your Game •Dog, Star, Cow, Problem Child/? • Reduce investment in successes • Increase investment • Look at TCO • Look at all costs incurred and not just hard costs • Review opportunity costs in soft costs
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- 36. Being More Opento Criticism and Feedback
- 37. Being More Opento Recommendations
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- 39. Be Creative andAttract
- 40. Being More Opento Change
- 41. The Library asSandbox
- 43. ‘New’ Library Cultures Support Your Team
- 44. Being More OpenExperimentation, Pilots and Innovation
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- 46. Being More Opento Risk
- 47. Being Open to aMosaic of Solutions
- 48. Being Open toAmbiguity
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- 51. Being Open toNew Ideas
- 52. Letting Go ofControl
- 53. Remove the BordersInside Libraries Be the Change We Want to See
- 54. Remove the BordersIn the Library Community Be the Change We Want to See.
- 55. Remove the Borders Between Libraries and Users Be the Change We Want to See.
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- 57. Know What MakesUs Different
- 58. Finding Our Voiceand Using It
- 59. Tell Your Story: Until lions learn to write their own story, the story will always be from the perspective of the hunter not the hunted.
- 61. Honest to G*d– Let’s Encourage Some Fun!
- 62. Stephen Abram, MLS,FSLA Consultant, Dysart & Jones/Lighthouse Partners Cel: 416-669-4855 stephen.abram@gmail.com Stephen’s Lighthouse Blog http://stephenslighthouse.com Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr: Stephen Abram LinkedIn / Plaxo: Stephen Abram Twitter: @sabram SlideShare: StephenAbram1