{"id":15252,"date":"2017-03-12T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T05:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=15252"},"modified":"2017-03-20T21:03:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T01:03:38","slug":"alsc-adopts-new-strategic-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/alsc-adopts-new-strategic-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"ALSC Board Adopts 2017-2020 Strategic Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALSC is pleased to announce its new three-year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/aboutalsc\/stratplan\">Strategic Plan for 2017-2020<\/a>. Thank you to everyone who participated in our in-person and online focus groups, as well as all those who contacted us during this process.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Themes that Emerged through Discussion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The following is a summary of the major themes we heard through our member input process, and which have shaped our vision statement and strategic directives.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The importance of diversity and inclusion within our organization and our profession, including the need for supporting members to serve our communities with cultural competence; and about the crucial role that library service to children serves in our democracy.<\/li>\n<li>There are professional challenges in responding to change, demands to serve families in the role of media mentors and early learning experts, and the need for more research and proactive advocacy.<\/li>\n<li>Supporting our roles as experts can be challenging when that expertise is represented at paraprofessional and professional levels. Support the breadth of roles, and types, sizes and settings of libraries that serve children, and advocate for all.<\/li>\n<li>Look inward at the health of our organization to identify our strengths and areas for growth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>The 2017-2020 Strategic Plan<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The final 2017-2020 Strategic Plan, approved on February 24, 2017, includes the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Updated vision statement<\/li>\n<li>Affirmation of ALSC\u2019s core values<\/li>\n<li>Focused strategic directions and areas of strategic action that identify where the association will direct its energy and resources over the next three years:<br \/>\n<strong>Spheres of Transformation<\/strong><br \/>\nTransforming ALSC<br \/>\nTransforming Children\u2019s Librarianship<br \/>\nTransforming Communities through Libraries<br \/>\n<strong>Areas of Strategic Action<\/strong><br \/>\nDiversity and Inclusion<br \/>\nAdvocacy<br \/>\nLearning and Development<\/li>\n<li>A set of objectives in each area of strategic action, delineated by sphere of transformation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While all of ALSC\u2019s many activities serve its vision, a strategic plan never details all of them; rather, it affirms a direction for focused energy and growth. Strategic thinking and planning is an ongoing process within the organization. This is not a \u201cstrategic planning project\u201d that is completed. Progress toward achieving the plan\u2019s goals and objectives will be assessed annually and the plan will be updated based on achievement and changes in the needs of the stakeholders served.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your contributions in articulation of this plan. We look forward to working together to maximize ALSC\u2019s impact over the next several years.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is located on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/aboutalsc\/stratplan\">ALSC website<\/a>\u00a0and a downloadable infographic of the plan will be available soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALSC is pleased to announce its new three-year Strategic Plan for 2017-2020. Thank you to everyone who participated in our in-person and online focus groups, as well as all those who contacted us during this process. Themes that Emerged through Discussion The following is a summary of the major themes we heard through our member input process, and which have shaped our vision statement and strategic directives. The importance of diversity and inclusion within our organization and our profession, including the need for supporting members to serve our communities with cultural competence; and about the crucial role that library service to children serves in our democracy. There are professional challenges in responding to change, demands to serve families in the role of media mentors and early learning experts, and the need for more research and proactive advocacy. Supporting our roles as experts can be challenging when that expertise is represented&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":15253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[52,1208,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alsc-board","category-blogger-laura-schulte-cooper","category-news-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}