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eContent requires meticulous, patron-aware (rather than traditional) cataloging.  It is virtually (no pun intended) impossible to “display” eContent. There is no way to physically put it in the hands of students, if students are using their own technology. This is not happening for a few reasons: Since vendors and library management systems have made it possible to import MARC records, librarians, as a whole, have been falling out of the cataloging practice. Cataloging is time consuming, and tedious work. Cataloging, as we learned it, doesn’t work for our students. We have to reinvent it. For example, at New Canaan High School, we add the project name as a subject heading to each title in the eCollection that supports it. 

In BYOD programs, library programs should be undergoing significant instructional transformations that evolve as students’ facility with mobile technology increases. The ratio of print to digital content should be contingent upon students’ ability to access eContent. Developing a system to calculate this would help school librarians make sound decisions about format choices."

If you have a Library strategic plan that you wrote with your staff, but never talk to other departments about then how do you expect them to have “buy in”?

sent it to other Libraries or your personal learning network (PLN), then how do you know what you are missing that is critical Library functions?

no corresponding operational plan then you have not thought about how you are going to archive your goals in the strategic plan

if you do not review the plan with all your staff and see how far you have moved, then its just a bit of paper that makes you feel better and is not an item that you have action as a team.

ask everyone to write one goal based on the overarching goals setout in the School Strategic Plan. These are big picture statements.

highlight the main goals of the school strategic plan

1. Tell your team that you are going to need them to review and read the school strategic plan.

Each individual sent these through to the Head of Library who combined and sent these to everyone removing who wrote what.

this was the main opportunity for all staff to have a chance to contribute to the strategic plan and the direction of the library for the next three years.

As the Head of Library I undertook the role of reading each goal and combining some goals together to ensure they incorporated the essence of each team members thinking.

From these I started to break out these goals into articulated statements that specifically looked at the library and what this meant day-to-day.

the strategic mission statement needs to be written which sums up the overarching goal of the plan

Once completed you need to send these goals out to the team for comment and any aspects that need clarification.

Once the fundamentals have been articulated in the goals and then corresponding support statement as Head of Library I need to present these back to the Curriculum Leadership group for comment. In addition a meeting with individual departments needs to be conducted to hear what they require from the Library going forward over the next three years.

The plan is then reworked and specific items for each department are highlighted in a separate document.