Technology Plan Template - Onondaga County Public Library

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Library’s Technology Goals and Objectives/Assessment of Library's Technology Needs to Meet Goals
This chart is broken into 2 sections: OCPL system technology goals and objectives, and Central Library and city branches technology goals
and objectives, and is organized by and references OCPL’s 2012-2016 Plan of Service elements supported. The Plan is available at
http://www.onlib.org/web/about/reports/plan_of_service/2012-2016/plan_of_service_complete.pdf. The 2013-2016 element categories
are:
Element 1 – Resource Sharing
Element 2 – Special Client Groups
Element 3 – Professional Development and
Continuing Education
Element 4 – no longer used
Element 5 – Consulting and Development Services
Element 6 – Coordinated Services
Element 7 – Awareness and Advocacy
Element 8 – Communications Among Member Libraries
and/or Branch Libraries
Element 9 – Cooperative Efforts with Other Library Systems
Element 11 – Central Library Services
Element 12 – Direct Access
OCPL System Technology Goals/Objectives (grouped by POS Elements, not prioritized)
Plan of
Service
Element(s)
1, 3, 6 ,7
OCPL System
Technology Goals/Objectives
Support Summer Reading program
Strategies (Timeframe)
Enable technologies to provide more interesting
experience for participants, and efficiencies for staff
Technology Needs
Staff time
1, 6
Improve materials handling to
reduce materials delivery wait time
Investigate and possibly implement automated
materials handling (2013-2014)
Staff time
OCPL Technology Plan, 2013 - 2016 December 6, 2012 Page 18