SLAQ Oct

8.30 – 9.00Registration 9.00 – 9.05Housekeeping 9.05 – 9.45Session 1 - Strategic Planning for your Library Budget – Robbie Rentz 9.45 – 10.15Session 2 - Strategic Operational Plans - Jenni king – 10.45Morning Tea – Session 3 - Examples of Resource Centre Annual Reports - Anne Weaver – Session 4 - Resource Centre Annual Report Workshop – Cathy Oxley

 Heightening your library’s profile  Gaining funds for special projects  Defines your role as integral to teaching and learning success

Session 1 - Strategic Planning for your Library Budget – Robbie Rentz

 develop a library or resource centre strategic plan which aligns closely to your school’s strategic plan.  Your plan points to specific results that are to be achieved and establishes a course of action for achieving them.  It brings clarity and agreement on mission and vision and demonstrates to principals that you share common goals.  It is a roadmap for success.

So where do you start?  Make it look official and professional  Identify it with your school  Check the format of other school policy documents and strategic plans and match them

 Start with an overview which sets the scene and purpose of the plan.  But write this last……  Firstly, ……..

 get a hold of a copy of your school’s current strategic plan.  Take note of the highlighted focus points and strategies then,  Decide which you can support through the work of the library services, resources and personnel and make them your priority.

Less is MORE…  Focus your efforts in just a couple of areas, rather than spreading yourself too thin.  Identify where these focus points fit into your library vision and mission  And begin to work them into your annual plans

 Distil your focus points into no more than three goals and  Develop strategies aligning with the focus points which will fulfil the goals.  Prioritise the strategies and distribute them across the yearly annual operational plans, but be prepared to revisit, re-organise and re-prioritise according to yearly budgets.

 Create your yearly budget proposals from your Annual Operational plan  Include any itemised quotes for special projects stipulating exactly which focus points in the school strategic plan the special projects will support, and which outcomes have a greater chance of being delivered.  Include an indexed increase in annual budget proposals to ensure you can accommodate price increases.

 Include: ◦ All term library newsletters ◦ Reports ◦ User statistics ◦ Anything that will help your cause.

The first one is the most difficult – so  Keep it simple…..  Start small, but…..  Think big, in terms of vision and align, align, align.  Remember – Money Matters but so does your Principal’s support. Good Luck