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What is strategic planning?
http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/03/22.html
Summary: Strategic planning can be used to determine mission, 
vision, values, goals, objectives, roles and responsibilities, timelines, etc

Article:
Use of focus groups in a library's strategic planning process
J Med Libr Assoc. 2002 January; 90 (1): 2002

Computers in Libraries
Vol. 19 January 1999
Issue focus: Making Strategic Plans to Prepare for Tomorrow 

Strategic Planning
(in nonprofit or for-profit organizations)
http://www.mapnp.org/library/plan_dec/str_plan/str_plan.htm
Abstract:
Simply put, strategic planning determines where an organization is going 
over the next year or more, how it's going to get there and 
how it'll know if it got there or not.
Far more important than the strategic plan document, 
is the planning process itself. 
There are a variety of perspectives about strategic planning 
and a variety of approaches used in the strategic planning processes.

SPEC Kit 210
Strategic Planning in ARL Libraries
August 1995 

Article:
Strategic Planning in a University Library 
by Lisa Schulz 
Marketing Library Services v. 12 (5) 1998

Online article:
Strategic Planning in Academic Libraries: 
A Political Perspective
Douglas G. Birdsall

Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
Volume 85 ( 3) July 1997
article:
Strategic planning with multitype libraries in the community:
a model with extra funding as the main goal
Abstract
 

Strategic Planning
University of British Columbia
In the Spring of 1999, the UBC Library embarked on a strategic planning process aimed 
at guiding the Library and its staff through the first decade of the 21st century. 

Is Strategic Planning for Technology an Oxymoron?
by Martin Ringle and Daniel Updegrove
CAUSE/EFFECT Volume 21, Number 1, 1998, pp. 18-23
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cem9814.html
Introduction
Strategic planning for technology is a topic that has received 
so much attention it hardly seems worthy of further discussion. 
The CAUSE Web site, for example, includes dozens of 
articles on strategic planning as well as copies of technology plans 
that have been contributed by more than eighty colleges and universities. 

CREATING AND IMPLEMENTING A TECHNOLOGY PLAN
Preparation of the plan involves the development of a short, articulate statement
describing the application of technology as it is related to the fulfillment 
of your library’s service plan.
Keep in mind that technology is a tool and a means to an end, not the end itself. 
 

Integrating Technology into Strategic Planning
Richard Hulsar
http://www.sla.org/pubs/serial/io/1998/feb98/hulser.html
 

Strategic Planning for A Library, Computing, and Media Support Organization
This paper was presented at the 1995 
CAUSE annual conference. It is part of the proceedings of 
that conference, "Realizing the Potential of Information 
Resources: Information, Technology, and Services--Proceedings 
of the 1995 CAUSE Annual Conference" 

More "Strategic Planning" article citations - on EDUCAUSE
Information Resources Library Documents / Abstracts
The EDUCAUSE Information Resources Library is an international repository 
for information about managing and using information resources in higher education.
Resources include campus documents, such as policies, RFPs, and strategic plans, 
conference papers, articles from EDUCAUSE publications, and useful Web resources. 
Many items are available electronically.

Dalhousie University Libraries
Notes from Strategic Planning Sessions
August 30, 1999
Planning Documents
http://www.library.dal.ca/libraries/planning/
 

St Charles City - County Library District
Planning for Results - A Strategic Planning Process 
http://www.win.org/library/library_office/reports/stratplan/

Teton County (Wyoming) Library Strategic Plan
http://www-wsl.state.wy.us/teton/events/stratplan.htm

UC Berkeley Library
Strategic Planning: Library Facilities and Space
January 29, 1998
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Admin/Stratpl.html

Library Trends
Winter 1994 V. 42  pg. 420-47
Startegic Planning & Budgeting for Libraries
Barbara & Sherman RObinson

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