Tuscarawas County Public Library
Strategic Plan for 2005-2009
LIBRARY MISSION
The Tuscarawas County Public Library provides library
users of all ages with access to resources to help them live, learn, and
grow.
THE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS
The New Planning for Results (NPFR is a
strategic planning process developed by the Public Library Association
that has been used successfully by public libraries nationwide. NPFR is
predicated on the following assumptions:
• Excellence must be defined locally.
• Excellence is possible for both large and small public libraries.
• Excellence is a moving target.
• All planning must be community
based.
• Limited resources require that the library set service
priorities.
• Service priorities should be selected to match
community needs.
With the approval of the board of
trustees, Wayne Piper, Director of Professional Development for the Ohio
Library Council, was hired in August 2004 to facilitate the library’s
strategic planning process.
Board and staff members identified
community members representing a wide range of stakeholders from each of
the library’s service areas to serve on an advisory committee. Committee
members included: William J. Bichsel, Jr., Dee Grossman-Tasker, Tiffany
Gerber, Pat Karnosh, Tracy Stevens, Jeannine Kennedy, and Eric Dietz
representing New Philadelphia; Dick Lebold from Bolivar; Tom Patton from
Strasburg; Arline Smith and Karen Warkall from Sugarcreek; and Marie
Abbuhl and John Decker from Tuscarawas.
The community advisory group met on
October 16, 2004 for a work session that focused on (1) discussing the
current quality of life in Tuscarawas County; (2) creating a vision for
the future of the community; and (3) and positioning the public library
to meet community needs. The group then chose the most appropriate
service responses for the Tuscarawas County Public Library from the list
of 13 service responses provided by NPFR.
Following the first community advisory
meeting, the library’s management team, with input from all staff
members, developed objectives and activities for each service priority
that will guide the library’s use of resources for the next five years.
These were presented to the advisory committee for their review at a
second meeting on November 13, 2004. The final document was presented to
the library board of trustees and approved at the December 20, 2004,
meeting.
LIBRARY SERVICE RESPONSES
Based on the recommendation of the
strategic planning community advisory group, the following five service
responses were selected as the focus of the library’s effort for the
next five years:
1.
Basic Literacy
2. Current
Topics & Titles
3. Formal
Learning Support
4.
General Information
5.
Information Literacy
The following pages (1) define each of
these five service responses; (2) list the objectives that each
department (adult, children’s, and extension) has developed for each of
the six service responses; and (3) and provide a list of the activities
that will be needed to be done in order to achieve each objective.
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