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Oregon City Library Draft Strategic Plan 2019-2024
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RECOMMENDED ACTION (Motion):
Review and discuss the draft strategic plan with the hope of adopting it at the regular City Commission meeting on February 6, 2019.
BACKGROUND:
Once the library building was constructed, the RFID (radio frequency identification) project was completed, and new processes somewhat stabilized, it was time to review the 2013-2018 strategic plan, to assess our progress with goals, and look towards the future with the new building. We needed to think about those things that we had not been able to do for years because of our physical limitations as well as consider what could be accomplished now that the building was complete, provided an improved site for services, and was no longer the main focus of our efforts and resources. Additionally we needed to talk to our community and find out what they wanted. It was time for a new strategic plan.
We solicited help in the strategic planning process from the State Library of Oregon. It has a consultant who helps libraries with the organization of the process and facilitation of the multiple meetings required to make the process successful. Starting in September, 2017, (please note: this was mentioned as a goal in the 2018 City Commission Retreat), we followed the steps outlined in Strategic Planning for Results by Sandra Nelson for the Public Library Association (American Library Association, 2008), which is the manual selected by the State Library of Oregon to guide these processes. Over the course of the next 12 months, we
· asked library patrons what was important to them about Oregon City through a series of in-library and online opportunities;
· held facilitated staff meetings which completely focused on strategic planning and the future of the library;
· we gathered a group of people who represented library stakeholder groups in two meetings, each lasting several hours, to discuss the future role of the library in the comm...
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