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Five Answers to Successful Strategic Planning

Dr. Steve Matthews's avatar21st Century Library Blog

One of the hardest parts of doing strategic planning is just getting started. Where to begin? What approach should we use to pursue strategic planning for my library? Do I just tell the staff; “Next Monday we will have a managers meeting to begin our next strategic plan.” BOOM There it is. We’ve started! Sure. Go ahead and do that – IF YOU WANT TO ENSURE FAILURE.

If you stop to consider what all is in involved in conducting strategic planning, you’ll realize that it may not be the most complicated process, but it does take some deliberate organization and preparation. Expecting your staff to know what needs to be done to pursue a new strategic plan is expecting a lot, unless you have a highly motivated, highly collaborative, visionary and experienced staff. Those dozen or so libraries that meet this description have no worries. For the rest of us…

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About Courage 10: Ari

Totally agree with you! I have followed Ari and I love her candor and perspective on literature. I’m so glad that to at least know you online!

Edith's avatarCotton Quilts Edi

Ari has been one of the most popular YA bloggers to date. I could easily attribute her wildly successful blog to her passion for literature in general or to her passion for diversity in particular, but Ari will be successful at anything she chooses to do. Note her email handle “willbprez”.

Because of the young age at which she began blogging, Ari worked to seclude her identity. She never even posted a picture of herself! That didn’t stop her from posting a letter that brought her to the attention of the ALA and an invitation to speak at a midwinter conference. She presented in 2011 (I think) at ALAN in Chicago along with Lyn Miller-Lachmann, Maggie (another teen blogger) and myself.

While she is not blogging at this time, Ari is on both Twitter and GoodReads. She attends college on the east coast where she majors in International…

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President Obama Speaks at the White House Youth Summit on the Affordable Care Act

Affordable Health Care Act, President Obama, Youth Summit

Camille Mitchell's avatarncmenterprises

Hello Everyone:
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Connie Schultz is a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicated. Ms. Schultz won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.  Ms. Schultz wrote an article on President Obama as a writer and her paragraph below shows intelligence and  thoughtfulness on her observations over the past two months.
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“The tumultuous rollout of the website for the Affordable Care Act is indefensible. However, though I sometimes have questioned the president’s judgment, I never have doubted his character. I do not think he lied when he assured Americans that they could keep their insurance policies if they liked them. I think he miscalculated the full impact of this historic reform, which will ultimately bring affordable health care to millions of Americans who thought they’d never see that day.”

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Happy New Year!

This is a new day in 2012 and a new place to create my blog.  The purpose of this blog is to collect and share books, reviews, and resources on African, African American, and Caribbean books for children and young adults.  As I navigate through WordPress, you will see additions and changes.