Abstract
This report explored the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)’s strategic planning process for 2020-2025 during COVID-19. The paper introduced CALA’s mission statement, values, and discussed the importance of the strategic plan. A strategic planning task force was formed to create an opportunity for membership input in virtual town hall meetings and surveys. The authors presented a case study on the process of revising a strategic plan and discussed the implementation phases. The authors also shared the challenges and recommendations in organizing strategic planning for a library association.
References
CALA. (2016a). 2020 Strategic plan (2015-2020). Retrieved from https://www.cala-web.org/docs/strategicplan2020
CALA. (2016b). Striving for excellence: CALA 2020 strategic plan (2015-2020). Retrieved from https://www.cala-web.org/files/CALA2020StrategicPlan_20151105.pdf
CALA. (2020). 2025 Strategic Plan. Retrieved from https://cala-web.org/docs/strategicplan2025
Dole, W. V. (2013). Strategic planning and assessment: Pigs of the same sow? Journal of Library Administration, 53(4), 283-292.
Germano, M. A., & Stretch‐Stephenson, S. M. (2012). Strategic value planning for libraries. The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances, 25(2), 71-88.
Higa-Moore, M. L., Bunnett, B., Mayo, H. G., & Olney, C. A. (2002). Use of focus groups in a library's strategic planning process. Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA, 90(1), 86–92.
McGuire, M. (2020). From concept to practice: Themes of diversity within the strategic planning of academic libraries. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.17615/v3hc-km12
McNicol, S. (2006). The challenges of strategic planning in academic libraries. New Library World, 106 (1218/1219), 496-509.
Nitecki, D. A., Livingston, J., Gorelick, G., & Noll, S. G. (2013). Evaluating a future search conference for an academic library’s strategic planning. Library Leadership & Management, 27(3).
Parent, R. H. (1988). Strategic planning for library associations. IFLA journal, 14(4), 343-353.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright (c) 2021 International Journal of Librarianship