Point of view...

Didn't have a chance to attend the staff planning meetings? Take a look at these comments from an e-mail sent by a librarian who attended the staff planning meeting at Sandy Library: "It was great to see the various perspectives of staff members today. I think we came up with some valid strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for each of the six service responses. It will be interesting to see if there is much commonality between the four staff sessions and also to compare the staff ideas and opinions with those of the community planning committee and the library board. I was also wondering if we are going to continue with the six service responses or narrow our focus to a fewer number of categories. Some of the response areas partner well together and others would at least at first glance appear to be in competition for funds, space, time etc. For example, will space in the library be given to new book displays (Current Topics and Titles) to more meeting rooms (Commons) or to computer lab space (Information Literacy). Perhaps the plan is for individual libraries to focus on only one or two service responses, which may work for some of the service response areas, but does it really make sense for only a few libraries to increase their emphasis on Current Topics and Titles especially considering we have a floating AV collection? I definitely look forward to watching the process progress and unfold." Be sure to watch for an e-mail synthesis of the perspectives shared at all of the staff sessions! And don't forget, you'll have another opportunity to share your ideas online. As for the issue of the six service areas: it's my impression that we will be narrowing the focus a bit. The next meeting of the Community Planning Committee will be held on May 3rd at South Jordan Library. I wonder what we're having for lunch....