The New Planning for Results: A Streamlined ApproachAmerican Library Association, 2001 - 315 páginas A classic resource, Planning for Results has long served to help public librarians envision, evaluate, and respond to community needs with distinctive programs and services. The NEW Planning for Results continues that tradition in an all-in-one guide that outlines a tested, results-driven planning process—revamped and streamlined to enable libraries to respond quickly to rapidly changing environments. Nelson's brand new approach focuses on the essential steps necessary to draft a forward-looking plan for any public library, regardless of organizational structure or size. New to this edition is an information-gathering toolkit for performing research and using customer surveys to provide a higher, more responsive level of service. The recommended planning time line has been reduced from eight to ten months down to four months in this edition and the previous twenty-three planning tasks have been combined to make twelve. Benefit from improvements to the process based on feedback from librarians around the country as you learn how to:
With the tools in The New Planning for Results, librarians will be equipped to react swiftly by surveying the environment and transforming services to effectively meet changing community needs. |
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Identify Community Needs | 50 |
Design Inventing the Future | 61 |
Select Service Responses | 64 |
General Information | 195 |
Government Information | 200 |
Information Literacy | 205 |
Lifelong Learning | 211 |
Local History and Genealogy | 216 |
Tool Kit | 221 |
Identifying Options | 223 |
Reaching Agreement | 235 |
Write Goals and Objectives | 78 |
Build Assembling the Future | 89 |
Identify Preliminary Activities | 92 |
Determine Resource Requirements | 102 |
Communicate Informing the Stakeholders | 117 |
Write the Basic Plan and Obtain Approval | 119 |
Communicate the Results of the Planning Process | 124 |
Implement Moving into the Future | 129 |
Allocate or Reallocate Resources | 132 |
Monitor Implementation | 141 |
Public Library Service Responses | 145 |
Basic Literacy | 151 |
Business and Career Information | 156 |
Commons | 161 |
Community Referral | 166 |
Consumer Information | 172 |
Cultural Awareness | 178 |
Current Topics and Titles | 183 |
Formal Learning Support | 188 |
Library Communication | 246 |
Presenting Data | 265 |
Workforms | |
Selecting Planning Committee Members | |
Community Data | |
Community Vision Statement | |
SWOT Analysis of the Community | 1 |
Library Data | 3 |
Developing Your Own Service Response | 8 |
SWOT Analysis of the Library | 7 |
Writing Objectives | 8 |
Analyzing ActivitiesEffectiveness | 10 |
Analyzing ActivitiesEfficiency | 11 |
Gap Analysis | 12 |
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ForcedChoices Process | 15 |
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