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AnnotationsAnnotationsNovember 28, 2006 Colorado Librarians set New StrategicPlansIn the November 1, 2006 issue of Library Journal on page 18 in the third column appears an article about how Colorado libraries have developed a five-year strategic plan. I found the six priorities listed below as worthy objectives for the profession. Coloradans Set New Strategic Plan By Norman Oder — November 1, 2006 Colorado libraries have developed a new five-year strategic plan entitled Moving Libraries Forward: A Roadmap for Colorado Library Cooperation, aimed at guiding libraries while “doing more with less.” A task force appointed by the Colorado Library Advisory Board surveyed library leaders, public library trustees, school library district administrators, and academic officers to set priorities. The six priority objectives are: • Increased access to sustainable, statewide virtual services such as virtual reference and online tutoring • Funding of a collection of electronic content for all residents • Development of a comprehensive education plan • Identification of the needs of business and community members • Development of a statewide virtual catalog and ILL system • Extension of the Colorado courier program statewide…. More Illinois already has some of these things in place. I am assuming that the statewide courier service is similar to our statewide van delivery. Illinois has made great strides with providing statewide virtual reference service with Ask?Away, and we all have access to some FirstSearch Databases. But wouldn’t it be cool if we could provide universal service throughout the state, have every library in Illinois participating in Ask?Away and provide everyone in the state with access to not only the First Search databases but also Tutor.com, Gale Virtual Reference Library, and something like EBSCOHost, or Gale’s Infotrac suite. What would we be willing to do to achieve this? What would we be willing to trade for it. Are we ready to give-up the LSTA grants the state awards in order to fund these services and databases? Would we be willing to partner with Illinois businesses to help sponsor these services? It might mean we would have to have a company logo on our Websites. I know some of these ideas make some of us squeamish but, this isn’t about us. It is about providing the services the public wants and needs. What do you think? Tomorrow’s post will take a look at what they decided not to make priorities. No Comments »RSS feed for comments on this post. Leave a comment
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