Strategic Plan
2022-2025 Strategic Plan:
Lawrence County Public Library Strategic Plan 2022-2025
- What is a Strategic Plan:
A strategic plan is a document used by an organization to communicate the organizations goals and the actions needed to achieve those goals. - Why is this important:
Strategic planning provides organizational management and aids an organization in identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, plan for the future, establish goals, strategically allocate funds, and ensure employees and stakeholders work toward common objectives. - The Strategic Plan is not a legal requirement; however, it is the Governance and Administration Standard 1.4 of the Kentucky Public Library Association (KPLA) Kentucky Public Library Standards. The KPLA Standards, created in 2002, and updated every few years, ensure librarians improve and evolve to meet their community’s needs. The standards are revised by a committee of librarians from across Kentucky. The standards provide assessment in the areas of: Governance and Administration, Human Resources, Collections, Services, Facilities, Technology, Marketing/Public Relations.
February 2022:
Having met the goals of the 2015-2020 strategic plan; the Board of Trustees approved at the January 2022 regular board meeting, hiring Miller Consulting Group to facilitate a new strategic plan.
In September 2014, the Board of Trustees determined that a strategic plan should be created for the operation of the library for the five-year period beginning with the 2015-2016 budget year. The Board desired that the plan utilize board, employee, and community input to address the many internal and external factors affecting the library. The Board hired Miller Consulting Group to facilitate the input and planning sessions and to help draft the final plan which may be reviewed below.
