Lac La Biche County Libraries Plan of Service 2021 – 2025
Lac La Biche County Libraries Plan of Service 2021 – 2025
For Stuart MacPherson Public Library, Plamondon Municipal Library and all Pop-Up Locations.
Our Vision
Opening Minds. Opening Doors. Our libraries... your place to be!
Our Mission
Our Mission We provide a broad range of high-quality library programs and services to our multi-dimensional regional community.
Our Values
- People focused
- Respectfulness
- Friendliness
- Service to all
- Excellence
- Accountability
Background
Lac La Biche County Libraries continue to innovate, transform, and evolve to serve the growing and changing needs of our residents in this County and surrounding Indigenous Communities. Every five years we are required to develop a strategic plan utilizing the Sandra Nelson model Strategic Planning for Results. Utilizing this model, the Lac La Biche County Library Board invited local citizens to participate and actively contribute in identifying community needs. This information helped us to identify the library services that we should focus on in the next five years.
This highly consultative process enables us to create a dynamic working document identifying community needs, and reflects the libraries’ goals, objectives, and associated performance standards. This will provide a straightforward stewardship document for the Board to use when making decisions and allocating resources.
Based on this consultative process, the Board affirmed the library service responses chosen by the community. Library Staff created specific measurable goals that respond to the needs of our community.
It is particularly important to note that “Celebrate Diversity: Cultural Awareness”, is intended to be reflected in all our other service response goals.
The five highest prioritized service responses selected by the Focus Group are:
A. Create Young Readers: Early Literacy
Children from birth to 5 will have programs and services designed to ensure that they will enter school ready to learn to read, write and listen.
B. Satisfy Curiosity: Lifelong Learning
Residents will have the resources they need to explore topics of personal interest and continue to learn throughout their lives.
C. Succeed in School: Homework Help
Students will have the resources they need to succeed in school.
D. Stimulate Imagination: Reading, Viewing and Listening for Pleasure
Residents who want materials to enhance their leisure time will find what they want when and where they want them and will have the help they need to make choices from among the options.
E. Know Your Community: Community resources and Services
Residents will have a central source for information about the wide variety of programs, services and activities provided by community agencies and organizations.
Note: When these goals are implemented, they will not replace our existing well-established programs and services instead they will augment them.
The Lac La Biche County Libraries continue to be valued institutions. Through community engagement we are once again able to identify public expectations and needs, allowing us to align our services accordingly. In turn these help us to create the framework within which all branch and service locations will work to fulfill their roles within our community.
The Lac La Biche County Library Board wishes to thank the following for their support and commitment to our planning process:
- All community members and stakeholders who participated in the consultation process.
- The Staff for their input and ongoing dedication to provision of quality services.
- Lac La Biche County Council and Administration for their interest and support.
- Our generous donors who help us to expand our resources and capabilities.
We look forward to utilizing this exciting strategic plan to guide our efforts in meeting the needs of Lac La Biche County.