Efficiency and effectiveness: Provide a Events: Facilitate opportunities for service to undertake reviews of the networking, collaboration and creativity efficiency and effectiveness of library amongst library colleagues, to learn service delivery to identify opportunities from each other’s successes. for improvement. New partnerships: Promote libraries as Learn from each other: Establish forums trusted partners for business, that enable the staff of libraries to community, education and government. regularly meet and share best practices in funding, service delivery, advocacy, Goal 4: Library as Community innovation and leadership. are safe, nurturing and inspiring places for people to meet, work, learn, Distributed leadership: Develop the grow and exchange ideas together. capacity among library leaders to work with each other and their stakeholders The strategies to achieve this goal are: in the most productive ways. Create hubs of activity: Work with Alignment with stakeholder interests: municipalities and cities to plan the All libraries in New Jersey that are development of "villages" around publicly funded will prepare a strategic libraries including the co-location of plan in collaboration with key internal dining, consulting, education, personal and external stakeholders. development, recreation and communication storefronts. Goal 3: Collaboration and Partnerships- We Meet new needs: Develop programs collaborate productively with each other and services to address changing user and with our stakeholders, internally, and community needs, including new between libraries and library systems, citizens and the differently-abled. across functions and disciplines, with our Offer services for others: Become the funders, customers, competitors, local agencies of business, education government and legislators. (especially higher education) health and government services. The strategies to achieve this goal are: Safe haven: Build the capacity for Promote collaboration: Create libraries to be the go-to place for incentives for and reward collaboration. information and help in emergencies. Develop cross-boundary skills: Develop Engage with people who and offer cross-boundary collaboration don’t use libraries to see how we might tools and skills for librarians, staff and enroll them and meet their needs. stakeholders. Goal 5: Cycles of Innovation- We reinvent Resource sharing: Promote our methods, models, products and services collaborative resource-sharing models to keep pace with the normal” of “new between libraries and stakeholders. transformational social and technological change.
Efficiency and effectiveness: Provide a service to undertake reviews of the efficiency and effectiveness of library service delivery to identify opportunities for improvement. Learn from each other: Establish forums that enable the staff of libraries to regularly meet and share best practices in funding, service delivery, advocacy, innovation and leadership. Distributed leadership: Develop the capacity among library leaders to work with each other and their stakeholders in the most productive ways. Alignment with stakeholder interests: All libraries in New Jersey that are publicly funded will prepare a strategic plan in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders. Goal 3: Collaboration and Partnerships- We collaborate productively with each other and with our stakeholders, internally, between libraries and library systems, across functions and disciplines, with our funders, customers, competitors, government and legislators. The strategies to achieve this goal are: Promote collaboration: Create incentives for and reward collaboration. Develop cross-boundary skills: Develop and offer cross-boundary collaboration tools and skills for librarians, staff and stakeholders. Resource sharing: Promote collaborative resource-sharing models between libraries and stakeholders. Events: Facilitate opportunities for networking, collaboration and creativity amongst library colleagues, to learn from each other’s successes. New partnerships: Promote libraries as trusted partners for business, community, education and government. Goal 4: Library as Community are safe, nurturing and inspiring places for people to meet, work, learn, grow and exchange ideas together. The strategies to achieve this goal are: Create hubs of activity: Work with municipalities and cities to plan the development of "villages" around libraries including the co-location of dining, consulting, education, personal development, recreation and communication storefronts. Meet new needs: Develop programs and services to address changing user and community needs, including new citizens and the differently-abled. Offer services for others: Become the local agencies of business, education (especially higher education) health and government services. Safe haven: Build the capacity for libraries to be the go-to place for information and help in emergencies. Engage with people who don’t use libraries to see how we might enroll them and meet their needs. Goal 5: Cycles of Innovation- We reinvent our methods, models, products and services to keep pace with the “new normal” of transformational social and technological change.