Evaluation

As the technology plan is an appendix of the strategic plan, both are reviewed by the library board and progress is evaluated at the November board meeting. Within the month before that meeting, the library director and branch management review progress on the strategic and technology plan goals at their respective branches. Discussions with each administrator and board member about what goals were accomplished, are in progress, and have not been initiated will be tabulated as part of the annual strategic plan progress table. Factors outside of the library’s control that may be affecting the progress of goals will be considered and goals will be modified accordingly. The feedback and suggestions of library staff and administration will help inform the board’s decisions to modify the goals. This plan will be updated to reflect those changes. Adequate progress on these goals are an expected piece of the library administration’s evaluation. Staff performance goals may also be tied to these efforts, especially if they are assigned to manage and assist with specific technologies in the plan. Library administration should review the plan by early August, as summer reading programs are wrapping up, to verify that the library is on-track to meet goals set for the year, and take focused efforts to move forward with library staff if progress is not yet adequate.