As you may know, SCRLC is in the throes of designing its next five-year plan of service. We have been collecting your needs, ideas, suggestions, and information about your hopes and fears during our field visits. We have also discussed this with the various SCRLC advisory committees and have engaged in strategic planning activities with the Board of Trustees. The PoS Design Team will be meeting on Friday, and one of our activities involves familiarizing ourselves with relevant environmental scans/reports.
Just this week, the Association of Research Libraries released information about its scenario planning project, Envisioning Research Library Futures: A Scenario Thinking Project.” They have availed the scenario set, a user’s guide, and have scheduled a webcast for 4 November @1PM.
Through their process, ARL developed four scenarios for 2030 in response to the question, “How do we transform our organization(s) to create differential value for future users (individuals, institutions, and beyond), given the external dynamics redefining the research environment over the next 20 years?” Although the focus is on research libraries, the process and scenarios are of interest to those of us involved in a long range planning process. For more information, see: http://bit.ly/cjgMhy.
The Chronicle of Higher Education contains an article about ARL’s project at http://bit.ly/9DHx1C. Cornell’s Anne Kenney is quoted and there have been several interesting comments/perceptions.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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