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Welcome to our blog!
We are excited to welcome all of you to Elmhurst Public Library's first blog! Our library has entered a new and exciting phase where we are planning for our library's future. To help us in this...
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Week 1 - The Strategic Planning Process has begun!
The Strategic Planning Committee had our kick-off meeting with consultant Maureen Sullivan on Tuesday, January 22, 2008. At this meeting we discussed the following:Planning process– We discussed what...
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Week 2 - Painting a background picture
The Strategic Planning Committee members spent the last week gathering and reading background documents we felt would prove useful to the planning process, looking at both the broad picture for...
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Staff Update and Brainstorming Session
Strategic Plan Update and Brainstorming Session for StaffOnlyTuesday, February 19, 2 - 4 PMMeeting Room 2EPL staff are invited to join the Strategic Plan Steering Committee and consultant Maureen...
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Week 3 - Elmhurst by the numbers
Strategic Planning Week Three – Elmhurst by the Numbers This week the Strategic Planning Committee has been studying census data and other available statistics on Elmhurst. As a starting point we used...
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Week 4 – Profiling the Elmhurst Community
This week the Strategic Planning Committee continued to collect background information on the Elmhurst community. Last week we focused on numbers. This week was spent looking at the various cultural,...
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What is Strategic Planning?
It has come to our attention that some of you out there may be wondering:What is Strategic Planning?Simply put, strategic planning determines where an organization is going over the next year or more...
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Strategic Planning Comments and Ideas
If you have general comments or ideas regarding Strategic Planning that are not related to specific postings, please use this as your forum. We welcome your input.
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Week 5 - Thank you!
THANK YOU! to everyone who participated in the Staff Brainstorming session on Tuesday, February 19th. We had about 48 Staff members and 2 Board members attend the meeting, which was facilitated by our...
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Week 6 - Looking out to the commmunity
Community SurveyA marketing class at Elmhurst College, taught by Amy Clugg, will be conducting a survey on the library’s behalf as part of their class work this semester. Sarah Caltvedt visited the...
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Week 7 - Mission and Vision
The Steering Committee has crafted first drafts of both a mission and vision statement for the library. We expect these documents to be revised a number of times before we are done. At this week’s...
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Week 8 - Trends
Although the library only recently began a formal strategic planning process (also called long range planning), our library staff have always been looking ahead, reading library literature, and making...
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Week 9 - Review of Draft Mission and Vision Statements
Staff,along with two board members, came together Wednesday morning for an opportunity to see and discuss draft versions of library mission and vision statements. The session was moderated by our...
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Week 10 - Mission, Vision, Values Statements and Task Force development
MISSION and VISIONThis week the Strategic Planning Committee worked on combining the three mission statements shared with staff last week, the excellent discussion from last Wednesday’s meeting, and...
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Week 11 - Vision Statement, Community Input Meeting, and Task Force development
VISION STATEMENT – STAFF INPUT SOUGHTThe Strategic Planning Committee has been working to incorporate staff input into our draft version of the Library Vision Statement. A revised Vision Statement has...
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Week 12 - Input from the staff and community
Vision Statement input soughtThe Strategic Planning Committee is debating some word changes in the Vision Statement and would like additional staff input. Rather than call another meeting we are...
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Week 13 - Community survey coming soon!
Vision Statement ResponsesThe good news is that the committee received 50 responses from staff. The bad news is that there was no consensus. The votes were evenly distributed across all three of the...
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Week 16 – Reports from the SPSC front
Hello again! These past few weeks have been filled with various activities related to the start of Phase Two of the Strategic Planning process. Phase Two launches on May 21st and marks the start of...
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Week 17 - Community Voice
WHAT WE LEARNEDSeveral weeks ago community leaders representing many community groups came together at the Library to discuss the future of Elmhurst and the library’s role in that future. The...
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The Task Forces are hard at work!
The Strategic Planning Steering Committee reconvened today to review the progress of the Task Forces and consider our next steps. The Task Forces have been hard at work since late May researching...
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