Creating a Staff-Led Strategic Plan: A Practical Guide for Libraries [Paperback]

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 K12, 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.

Katy B. Mathuewsis the Executive Director and CEO of OhioNet, USA.

Ryan A. Spellmanis an Online Learning Librarian at Northern Kentucky University's Steely Library, USA.

This guide is a useful primer for all library staff, particularly in terms of in-staff communication. Booklist

Mathuews and Spellman have written a must-read primer for library administrators who want to get staff of all levels involved in the strategic planning process. The authors provide plenty of salient examples, practical advice, and helpful resources lC„