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Guide to Strategic Planning Resources

Planning process

Creating Positively Passionate Customers and Advocates (PPT): a strategy mapping process that puts "positively passionate customers and advocates" at the heart of library strategy, operations, and organization.
Creating a Preferred Future: achieving a desired future using the Preferred Futuring Process
Community Analysis and Knowledge Management: understanding the makeup of the community as a foundation for planning
Long-Range Planning: George Needham shares an approach to planning with helpful language and tools to get it done.

Technology and planning

Strategic and Technology Plans: from the MaintainIT Planning for Success Cookbook
Technology Leadership in Planning: "Technology leadership ...is a social-change process."

Examples of long range plans

Connecticut's LSTA Five Year Plan Evaluation, 2003-2007
Library Services and Technology Act Five-Year Plan 2008-2012: example of a 5-year business plan from the Ohio State Library
Middlebury's Long Range Planning Project: process, findings, and best practices of the long range planning project
Plumb Memorial Library, Shelton: Shelton's (CT) 2008 long range plan

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