[Scla-list] FW: [alacro-l] Update on ALA's New Strategic Plan

[Gilson, Thomas V]

Hi everyone,

As you can see from the information and the resource links provided by
Camila Alire, ALA President, in her email below, ALA is very interested
in our input to help develop the Ahead to 2015 Strategic Plan.  Just as
other state associations are doing, SCLA will hold a forum at our annual
conference to solicit your opinions and suggestions.  The forum is
scheduled for Thursday Oct. 29th at 10 AM in the Carolina A-C rooms.
Anyone who is interested is invited to attend and share their thoughts
and ideas.  The forum offers an excellent opportunity to help shape
ALA's future.  I look forward to seeing you there.

Tom Gilson

SCLA - ALA Chapter Councilor

 

From: Don Wood [mailto:dwood at ala.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:13 PM
To: alacro-l at ala.org
Subject: [alacro-l] Update on ALA's New Strategic Plan

 

September 22, 2009

 

Dear Colleagues:

 

The weekend of September  11th, a group comprised of the ALA board
members, division leaders, roundtable representatives and senior staff
met in Itasca, Illinois, to begin the development of ALA's new strategic
plan. The new plan's goals and objectives will set the association's
strategic directions for the next five years to 2015. (ALA's current
plan goes through 2010.)

 

For the last six months, work has been underway to gather member input
and information on the changing environment for libraries, librarians
and the association. To date, 15 member forums have been conducted at
state chapter meetings, and another 20 are planned for this fall and
early spring of 2010. A member survey of ALA programs and services,
their importance, and the association's performance in each area was
conducted, with 9,000 members participating.

 

In addition to the survey and forums, an Environmental Scan has been
created on ALA Connect (http://connect.ala.org/), containing articles,
reports and other information on the social, educational, economic,
political, and technological environments within which we will operate,
as well as issues and trends specific to different types of libraries.
(To see the Environmental Scan, surveys or forum reports, go to ALA
Connect (http://connect.ala.org/), log in, and click "My Member
Communities" and then "ALA 2015 Environmental Scan.")

 

In mid-October, ALA board members will meet with a larger group of
division leadership and roundtable representatives in Chicago to
continue working on draft goals and objectives. Following this meeting,
we will then circulate a draft plan for discussion by ALA councilors,
committees and the membership as a whole.  It is our hope that those
members attending Midwinter will schedule discussions of the plan as
part of their meeting agendas, and we are looking to schedule a working
session on the plan for Council as part of the Information Session at
Midwinter.

 

Again, following Midwinter, ALA groups and individual members will be
invited to share their thoughts and suggestions which will be considered
for incorporation into the document as we prepare for review and
approval by the Board in April.  The document will then go to Council
prior to Annual Conference for Council's final approval at Annual
Conference.

 

When we developed the current 2010 plan, we received over 2,500 comments
from ALA groups and individual members. These comments were aggregated,
analyzed, and ultimately incorporated into the plan as it moved forward
over the course of its year- long development. We look forward to the
same high level of member involvement as we move forward on our 2015
Plan.

 

Thank you for your help in this process.  

 

Camila A. Alire

President

American Library Association

 

 

Don Wood

Program Officer

Chapter Relations Office

American Libraries Association

50 East Huron Street

Chicago, IL 60611

dwood at ala.org

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