strategic planning and a library career
I believe that learning about strategic planning in LIBR 204 will have been incredibly important for my future career in a library setting, whether I ever formally become a titled manager or not. As libraries and other information organizations face more and more challenges in our rapidly changing "digital age", maintaining the ability to survive and manage strategically for the future is critical. As a young professional new to the information science field, I highly value having learned so much about these complicated and complex processes while early in my program courses and am thankful to embark on my career having experienced it all first-hand from (relatively) "real world" experiences during my team-based Organizational Analysis project.
Understanding strategic planning from a library or information organization perspective is helpful for your future prospects as a manager, but it can also be helpful on a more personal level for planning your own career objectives. The steps used in formal, organizational strategic planning could likely be adapted for application on a smaller scale. I think it can be quite helpful to take a step back every once in a while and evaluate your personal and/or professional circumstances, especially to make improvements and revisions to your own strategic goals and objectives. Plus, creating a mission statement for your life might just be useful! (if not perhaps a bit...formal).
In closing, I'm glad to have learned so much about the strategic planning process in LIBR 204 and am eager offer my new knowledge of strategic planning to whatever role I eventually play in the field of library and information science.
Thanks for a great class, Dr. Boyd.
Understanding strategic planning from a library or information organization perspective is helpful for your future prospects as a manager, but it can also be helpful on a more personal level for planning your own career objectives. The steps used in formal, organizational strategic planning could likely be adapted for application on a smaller scale. I think it can be quite helpful to take a step back every once in a while and evaluate your personal and/or professional circumstances, especially to make improvements and revisions to your own strategic goals and objectives. Plus, creating a mission statement for your life might just be useful! (if not perhaps a bit...formal).
In closing, I'm glad to have learned so much about the strategic planning process in LIBR 204 and am eager offer my new knowledge of strategic planning to whatever role I eventually play in the field of library and information science.
Thanks for a great class, Dr. Boyd.