We are getting near the end of this season, and next week is going to be exciting. So this week, we are going to look toward the future! We are going to walk through some strategies you can use to do some needs assessment and strategic planning for your library. It doesn’t matter how big or small your library is, you can always work on some plans for the future.

Check out our show notes page here, with links to all the resources we talk about today, and to the books we share.

If you have been in libraries for more than even a few weeks, you know that things are always changing, there are always new things to learn, and new things you can be doing to better serve your community.

Don’t worry about making it perfect – it won’t be. Don’t worry about guessing wrong about what is possible in the future – you will get some things wrong.

Unless you have much better precognitive skills that we do, you cannot know for sure what is going to happen, and how you can be ready for it. But a strategic plan for the future will be the best chance for making a good plan and being ready to handle any situation that comes your way.