{"id":4647,"date":"2024-05-07T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T19:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/?p=4647"},"modified":"2024-05-07T13:38:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T19:38:13","slug":"strategic-planning-for-your-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/2024\/05\/07\/strategic-planning-for-your-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Planning for Your Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did you know that Parkland can assist you with your strategic plan? Your strategic plan or \u201cplan of service\u201d as we refer to it in library world, is a provincially required document outlining your library\u2019s strategy for growth over the next five years. Creating your strategic plan should push your library out of its comfort zone, if you\u2019re doing it right. Libraries should be asking themselves, \u201cwhat should we be doing that we\u2019re presently not doing?\u201d, \u201cwhat does our community need from us?\u201d, or \u201cwhat are the service gaps in our community that we, as the library, could fill?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re not sure where to start, reach out to your Consultant at Parkland. We can help you and your board take a step back and assess the needs of your community and see how the library can help. Once you decide on what your growth strategy will be over the next five years, we can even help you draft your Plan of Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Parkland can assist you with your strategic plan? Your strategic plan or \u201cplan of service\u201d as we refer to it in library world, is a provincially required document outlining your library\u2019s strategy for growth over the next five years. Creating your strategic plan should push your &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,86,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-boards","category-library-management","category-library-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4648,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}