HRLC STRATEGIC PLANNING

NEW! -- Final Strategic Plan - 2007-2010 -- NEW!

On Wednesday, January 17, 2007, HRLC held a one-day planning session to help set the course for our new three-year Strategic Plan that will take effect on July 1, 2007. The session was facilitated by Nancy Davis and Catherine Alloway of the Ivy Group.

If you were unable to attend but would like to see the PowerPoint presentation or the Strategic Priorities Litmus Test, please click on the links below.

• PowerPoint Presentation from Planning Session on January 17, 2007  
• Strategic Priorities Litmus Test 

Below are four readings that we recommended to those who attended:

1. Blog Article Library Delivery 2.0: Delivering Library Materials in the Age of NetFlix, TechEssence.Info
2. Article Library 2.0 by Michael E. Casey & Laura C. Savastinuk, Library Journal, September 1, 2006, pgs. 40-42 (available on EBSCO Masterfile Premiere)
3. Article Do More, Better, for Less by Shaunessy Everett, Library Journal, September 15, 2006, pgs. 28-31 (available on EBSCO Masterfile Premiere)
4. Article Google is Not the Net by Andrew Richard Albanese, Library Journal, September 15, 2006, pgs. 32-34 (available on EBSCO Masterfile Premiere)

Additional items you may wish to consider reading:

• OCLC Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (http://www.oclc.org/reports/2005perceptions.htm) - only the Conclusion is recommended
• Scan This Book! by Kevin Kelly, The New York Times Magazine, May 14, 2006
• Teen Content Creators and Consumers: More than half of online teens have created content for the internet; and most teen downloaders think that getting free music files is easy to do by Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, PEW/INTERNET
• Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation by Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Paul Hitlin, PEW/INTERNET
• You Know You're a Twenty-First-Century Teacher-Librarian If... by Joyce Kasman Valenza, VOYA, e-VOYA article listed in the October 2006 issue (**Highly recommended for School Librarians**)