submitted by Barb Campbell
Vancouver Island Regional Library has scheduled a Strategic Planning meeting for Monday, January 25th from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Tofino Branch on Main Street.
“Vancouver Island Regional Library is embarking on a Strategic Planning process and invites the public to participate and help plan our future by shaping a common vision, direction and goals for the next three years. Public Consultation sessions are planned in communities throughout the VIRL system, and we invite you to participate.”
Come out and voice your suggestions for the future of our library or fill out a customer survey, available as a form at the library or online: VIRL user survey.
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January 9, 2010 at 6:15 pm
jwindh
Thanks for this Barb.
I just did the VIRL survey online. It is really weird – it assumes that you are doing it while you are at the library, so if you are anywhere else you just have to make up answers in order to progress through the pages.
So I’d advise anyone who does it to try to remember last time they were at the library and pretend they are there doing it – it asks you things like what you were doing before you got there and what you are going to do next.
January 14, 2010 at 11:38 am
greg b
Uh-oh. “Strategic planning” is often bureaucrat-speak for “make like we care and then cut, cut, cut.” I don’t think the VIRL board is like this, but they are beholden to their provincial masters for funding. We’ve seen what’s happening with Westcoast schools; i can’t think our provincial visionaries would see libraries as more important than schools.
Note that it’s on Monday — not a usual library-open day — so they won’t get the usual walk-in traffic. It’s important to push this to get lots of input from library users. I’ll be there with pencil sharpened.
January 18, 2010 at 10:25 am
Christine Lowther
I am a VIRL employee and I can’t be at this meeting because I will be working at my other job. I deeply regret not being able to be present. I truly love my library job and the library system. I wish the meeting could have been offered during the evening so that this employee could participate!
Christine
January 22, 2010 at 1:13 am
Warren Rudd
is it possible to submit comments?
January 24, 2010 at 2:51 am
greg
Warren and Chris, there’s a link at the end of the article to the on-line survey, in case you can’t get to the library event.