Additional Strategic Planning Workshop Set: April 5, 2011, & follow-up session May 24, 2011 Clark Public Library, 303 Westfield Avenue, Clark, NJ 07066 Library Director AND one Trustee must attend BOTH sessions RSVP to Marcia Warfel, mwarfel@PROTECTED, 609-278-2630 Ext. 170

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.

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 three workshops, plus three 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 BOTH workshops together (limit 15 libraries in each workshop). Priority will be given to libraries with no strategic plan.

April 5: Clark Public Library, 303 Westfield Ave., Clark, NJ 07066 April 6: Parsippany Troy Hills Public Library, 449 Halsey Road, Parsippany, NJ 07054 (FILLED) April 7: Mount Laurel Public Library, 100 Walt Whitman Avenue, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 (5 spots remaining)

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: May 24: Clark Public Library May 25: Parsippany Troy Hills Public Library May 26: 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.

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

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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