A Strategic Plan for the LibraryPresenters:

[group names redacted] Whitni Watkins

(Students in the SJSU MLIS Program)

April 20, 2012

• Located in a upper-middle class San Francisco neighborhood

• Implements a non-discrimination policy

• Grades K-8

• Enrollment • 161 students in K-5• 111 students in 6-8

“Definitions of environmental scanning differ, but they all agree that environmental scanning is an efficient, organized means for an institution to

collect relevant information regarding the external environment” (Pashiardis, 1997, p.5)

Environmental Scanning

SWOT Analysis

• The next step after an environmental scan

• Internal Factors

-Strengths-Weaknesses

• External Factors-Opportunities-Threats

Involvement & Collaborationo staff & parents

Communityo promotes and strengthens Live Oak School

community

Strengths

• Physical space

• No middle school program

Weaknesses

Imagine library as an academic center Physical space

• serve students, staff, school community

Technology• digital information resources

• other technologies

Opportunities

• Physical space• collection growth & teaching space

• Understaffing• no support for middle school program

Threats

To foster a love of reading

To support all students• In academic growth• In personal growth

To prepare all students• For future success!

Our Mission Statement

Our Vision Statement To have a range of high quality

material for the students –

Why???• To broaden their perspectives • To inspire them • To engage them • To promote insight

To embody these values for our students

Curiosity

Diversity

Quality

Intellectual freedom

Academic integrity

Individuality

Community

Our Values Statement

We conducted an environmental scan

This led us to a SWOT analysis

We defined our new Mission, Vision and Values statements

So now what?We need goals to fulfill our statement!

The Next Step?

Strategic Goal #1Develop a plan to enhance the

library’s physical space.

Objective 1.1 Develop plan for proper teaching space.

Objective 1.2 Reduce crowding in the Library.

Objective 1.3 Improve monitoring of the non-fiction area.

Objective 1.4 Provide for collection growth.

Develop a plan to integrate e-books.

Objective 2.1 Explore forming a consortium of K-8 private schools to form a communal e-book library.

Strategic Goal #2

Conduct a User Survey.

Objective 3.1 Survey students in 3rd to 8th grade to determine reading patterns and preferences.

Strategic Goal #3

Increase awareness of Library’s critical role in student achievement and information literacy.

Objective 4.1 Publicize library’s role in student achievement and educate parents and faculty about the library’s information literacy curriculum.

Objective 4.2 Address Middle School information literacy.

Strategic Goal #4

Develop strategic partnership with middle school learning center and reading specialist.

Objective 5.1 Meet weekly with middle school reading specialist to develop joint programs and support student

achievement goals.

Strategic Goal #5

Increase library outreach to middle school students.

Objective 6.1 Increase strategic use of volunteers to free middle school librarian’s time.

Objective 6.2 Consider creating an internship for SJSU MLIS students.

Strategic Goal #6