The agenda for the 2013 Penn State Libraries Faculty Strategic Planning Retreat is below. The purpose of this first retreat is to get us started in identifying major themes and topics for further development. In the next several weeks we’ll define and appoint working groups to work on those issues.
Agenda: November 20, 2014
In advance of the retreat, attendees were asked to take some time in the next couple of days to consider the following questions:
- What do you want University Libraries to be in 5-10 years?
- Does the University Libraries’ mission statement need to be revisited to achieve what you want University Libraries to be in 5-10 years?
9:45-10:00: Overview of the planning process
10:00-10:30: Discussion: current assessment
- What are the strengths of the Libraries today?
- What can we build on for the future?
- In 2020, what will be the ideal library?
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-11:35: Discussion: looking ahead
- In 2020, what will be the ideal library? (Discuss at tables for 15 minutes. Discuss as a group for 10 minutes.)
- What are the challenges we will face in achieving this ideal? (Discuss at tables for 15 minutes. Discuss as a group for 10 minutes.)
11:35-12:00: Discussion: moving forward
- What are the two most important things we need to address? (Discuss at tables for 15 minutes. Each table will write out and report two most important things to group.)
12:00-12:30: Wrap up and time for any questions. Individuals will vote for top three “most important things” on the way to lunch.
12:30: Lunch