New Strategic Plan

April 23, 2008 -- The energy and creativity shared by library staff and board members during the SELCO/SELS Strategic Planning retreat inspired a new look, new words and new direction.  At last night’s quarterly board meeting, the SELCO/SELS Board of Directors approved a new strategic plan launching a new mission statement: We Connect Libraries, new guiding principles, and four goals.  The plan highlights strategic endeavors that will be undertaken as innovative or enhanced services. Programs and services ranked by the members as important or essential in the most recent and previous budget surveys (FY 2005, 2006 & 2007) and considered ongoing in SELCO’s service catalog (such as library automation, ILL, and delivery) are not itemized in the plan.  This greatly reduces the size to two very readable pages and will enable board members, library staff and SELCO staff to focus on the new strategic activities.