February and progress on the goals listed for the previous year will be evaluated. This plan’s selected focus areas are:

• Community Hub of Opportunity – As a community heart, the library is a center of safe gathering, learning, and opportunity. Information about needed community resources and agencies is distributed. Community members, organizations, and professionals can share their creative, recreational, scholarly, and other interests together. Community events large and small, library sponsored or not, can all be offered for the growth of all.
• Lifelong Learning – Complementing schools and post-secondary education entities, the library is a primary institution that can provide resources for continual lifelong learning and progress for all. Specifically, the library will focus on: providing access to electronic collections across the county; receiving patron requests for collection purchases; and programming for various patron age groups, learning interests, and literacy needs, including technology literacy. Collections and spaces also provide support for homeschool and personal or group study.
• Outreach / Awareness – Library service is not limited to the library buildings and should extend throughout the county, whether through digital or offsite services. The public, who all contribute to the funding of library services, should also be made more adequately aware of what services their investment is providing and why they matter. A greater variety of public awareness tools will be employed to do so. Collaborations with other community organizations and institutions to more synergistically provide combined services will be maintained and others will be pursued for the first time as staffing capacity allows.
• Regional History – Our local history and heritage—specifically comprised of irreplaceable, original documentation—is often not easily accessible and at risk of permanent loss by degradation or disasters. If not taken care of at their region of origin, these resources are often moved to distant larger collections. The Duchesne County History Center—an appendage of Duchesne Branch—has begun to meet this need. It acts as a local historical record depository and, with time, will also be a digital repository. It assists Duchesne County citizens in accessing and even contributing to these precious resources.
• Duchesne Branch Remodel – Duchesne Branch is part of a remodel of the South Duchesne County Building that has been bid on and will commence construction in early 2024. Anticipated completion is the end of 2024. The library’s portion will include additional public space and storage for the History Center, the addition of a small meeting room, and some increased reading and gathering space in the library. These additions will enhance the capacity of the History Center, and provide new needed service in the Duchesne Branch for personal study and small group gathering. Adjustments of services in the new space is expected through the following year, particularly since the library will then be housed with the Senior Center in the same building.
• Technology Plan: Appendix A – A new requirement for library certification is to have a specific plan for library technology. This plan was developed and approved by the library board in late 2023 and is included as Appendix A. The plan addresses every item of hardware and software that the library utilizes for patron services and to staff support.