Northland Public Library Strategic Plan: CONNECTING OUR COMMUNITIES 2016-2020 FINAL

Objectives Responsibility Date
Due
Northland Library will continue to provide programming in a wide Reference Librarians Ongoing
variety of formats within the physical building and in off-site
locations within our supporting communities
The library will respond to community feedback and adapt to Reference Librarians Ongoing
changing community needs with programs or services that reflect
short or long-term interests and needs
Northland Library will maintain and train adequate programming
staff to meet the growing needs and interests of its community
members
Director of Library Services
Executive Director
Ongoing
Priority 3 – Library Space
All of the partnerships outlined above involve significant questions of capacity to hold programs and events on
and off the library campus. Library space considerations include any and all venues where Northland carries out
its mission. This includes indoors and outdoors on the library campus, remote lending kiosks and material
returns, bookmobile service sites, and offsite programming locations.
Current
The present site of the library limits both the ability to expand the building site in a substantial manner, and to
provide adequate parking facilities for the same. Relocation to a new site, creation of one or more satellite
locations, and acquisition of offsite property to house back-office functions, have all been considered as one or
more ways of relieving the chronic need for more usable space for library functions. Funding the construction of
a new facility, purchase of satellite sites or locations for support services, or other steps to acquire library owned
premises in addition to the present campus are not viable at the present time due to budgetary constraints, nor
are these financial restrictions likely to be ameliorated during the course of this strategic plan.
Future
Therefore, the Library intends to seek the partnerships outlined above, but with a decided bias toward
developing those with the promise of complementarity in space availability, that is, the willingness on the part
of our partners to host library sponsored events on the partner’s home ground, at facilities rented by the partner
for this purpose or otherwise provided for the library’s programming and event use. The Library will seek and
develop partnerships that will focus on the ability to provide space suitable to helping the library to carry out its
mission.
Strategy 3A
To educate the public, our partners and our funders to the critical space requirements.
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Invite existing partners to tailored library presentations to
demonstrate potential interfaces. Develop new partners and
provide comparable opportunities.
Executive Director
Department Managers
Designated staff contacts
Ongoing
Provide regular updates to municipal officials, ACLA and
RAD on the progress of these partnerships and the value of
services and outcomes provided in this manner with
consequent positive budget impact.
Executive Director
Authority Board members
Director of Marketing &
Communications
Ongoing
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