Tuscarawas County Public Library System Main • Bolivar • Strasburg • Sugarcreek • Tuscarawas • Mobile Services Goal 4: Lifelong Learning Library customers will have access to engaging collections, vibrant programming, innovative technologies, and vital services that they need to explore topics of personal interest and enrichment. Objectives: 1. Build a robust collection for customer exploration. 2. Explore new ways of offering lifelong learning opportunities for all ages. 3. Explore opportunities to provide technology training and discovery. 4. Provide training opportunities for staff related to reference services, readers advisory, programming, and technology. Goal 5: Optimizing Assets Library staff and board will analyze and evaluate current policies, procedures, services, and programs in an effort to ensure they are both effective and supportive in meeting customer needs and cultivating a positive Library culture. Objectives: 1. Ensure building policies and procedures meet changing needs. 2. Develop a comprehensive framework for assessing collections, programming, and services. 3. Nurture and enhance staff appreciation and communication. Goal 6: Social Services The Library will develop partnerships with local social service agencies to provide resources and programming that will support Library customers facing life-changing obstacles such as addiction, mental illness, poverty, food insecurity, homelessness, and unemployment. Objectives: 1. Collaborate with local social service agencies to meet library customer social service needs. 2. Identify and seek to have a library presence at community task forces related to the library’s social services goal. 3. Provide staff training opportunities related to supporting high need library customers. 4. Explore and investigate the feasibility of a social worker presence at the TCPL.
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