The NJ State Library (NJSL) supports strategic planning as a management tool to determine a library’s mission, vision, values, goals and objectives, roles and responsibilities, and to determine benchmarks and timelines that will shape the library’s future.
All libraries should have an updated strategic plan of three to five years, initiated by the Board of Trustees.
Sample Strategic Plans
- Sample Format for Strategic Plans (PDF)
- East Brunswick Public Library
- Hoboken Public Library
- Rockaway Township Free Public Library
- Westfield Memorial Library
- 2022-2025 Roxbury Strategic Plan (PDF)
- 2022-2025 Roxbury Strategic Plan Four Pager (PDF)
Focus Groups
- Forums Facilitate Important Community Conversations
- Organizing Focus Groups (PDF)
- Focus Group Recruitment (PDF)
- Organizing Leadership Interviews (PDF)
- Community Leadership Interview Questions (PDF)
- Sample Focus Group Discussion Guide (PDF)
- Young Professionals Focus Group Guide (PDF)
- Teen Focus Group Guide (PDF)
- Seniors Focus Group Guide (PDF)
- Ethnic Focus Group Guide (PDF)