Darien Library Stephanie Anderson 01-26-17

Darien Library’s Goals for the Next 3 Years: More Health Info, Partnering with Groups, Better Refuge in Disasters

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By 2020, Darien Library will work more with other groups in town, improve the ways librarians help patrons find sensitive health information for patrons and find ways to make the library more useful when storms or similar disasters hit town. Those are essentially the goals the library has for the next three years, as described by Assistant Library Director Stephanie Anderson at a presentation to the public Wednesday at the library. Anderson ran the strategic planning process that included meetings with people in the community over a six-month period last year. The strategic planning process was unusual in that it relied so heavily on what people in the community were saying Darien needs and what they think about the town and the library. It also was unusual in coming up with a strategic plan that fits on one page.

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Darien Library Presents Its 2017-2020 Strategic Plan

At this presentation, Library staff members will discuss the 2017-2020 Strategic Plan, and also share condensed versions of the feedback we heard from the community over the course of the past six months, followed by a Q&A. After six months of community meetings and staff workshops, the Darien Library has unveiled its new Strategic Plan. In a change from previous strategic plans, we began our planning process with an extensive series of community meetings. Staff members met with representatives from several dozen groups like the League of Women Voters, Darien Men’s Association, Post 53, and the YWCA, as well as local churches, Town boards, and internal advisory boards. Rather than asking about the Library, though, meetings asked participants to answer questions like: What do you think Darien will be like in ten years?

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Library’s New Strategic Plan Focuses on Partnerships, Connecting Patrons

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After six months of community meetings and staff workshops, Darien Library has unveiled its 2017-2020 Strategic Plan. The plan sets three goals for the Library:

Grow new and existing partnerships to expand the reach of our core services and strategic priorities. Connect our patrons discreetly with experts and information to improve our community’s well-being. Prepare our staff and building to serve our community in extraordinary circumstances, during disasters, and through rapid change. The entire plan can be viewed on the library’s website.