Strategic Planning Sample Format and Workshops

The New Jersey State Library and LibraryLinkNJ supports strategic planning as a management tool to determine a library\x92s mission, vision, values, goals and objectives, roles and responsibilities, and to determine benchmarks and timelines that will shape the library\x92s future. All libraries should have an updated strategic plan of three to five years, initiated by the Board of Trustees.

Strategic Planning Sample Format: To assist libraries with their long-range planning goals, the New Jersey State Library has contracted with the Ivy Group to produce a guideline to Strategic Planning showing steps so that libraries may complete a plan on their own. The guideline is now posted on the New Jersey State Library's website at: http://www.njstatelib.org//LDB/sample_strategic_plan_format.pdf

For those libraries wanting assistance in completing the steps necessary to prepare a strategic plan, the New Jersey State Library, in partnership with LibraryLinkNJ, is sponsoring two workshops, plus two follow-up workshops on strategic planning. These sessions will be presented by the Ivy Group.

Workshops are limited to 30 attendees and it is mandatory that both the director and a library trustee attend together (15 libraries in each workshop). Priority will be given to libraries with no strategic plan.

April 6: Parsippany Troy Hills Public Library, 449 Halsey Road, Parsippany, NJ 07054 April 7: Mount Laurel Public Library, 100 Walt Whitman Avenue, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054

Registration 9:00 \x96 9:30 Workshop 9:30-3:30 (lunch provided)

For registration contact Marcia Warfel at the New Jersey State Library, 609-278-2640 Ext. 170, mwarfel@PROTECTED

Follow-up half-day workshops will be held on May 25th at Parsippany Troy Hills Public Library, and May 26th at Mount Laurel Public Library. In addition, library directors and trustees who have attended these sessions will have the opportunity to discuss their strategic plan individually with the Ivy Group at a reduced rate negotiated by the State Library.

NJLA Annual Conference: The Ivy Group, along with NJSL staff members Michele Stricker, Deputy Director of Library Development, and Victoria Rosch, Associate State Librarian, and Patricia Tumulty, Executive Director of NJLA, will present a program on Strategic Planning at the NJLA Annual Conference on May 3, from 3:30 to 4:20.

For further information contact Michele Stricker at mstricker@PROTECTED.

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