Page 1 - sc1102

ዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊ ዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊዊ ዊ ዊዊ ዊዊዊዊዊዊዊ

ዊዊዊዊዊ

Citizens Public Library Advisory Committee Recommendations

Strategic Service Plan - FY 2011-14
for
The City of Santa Clarita Public Library

Introduction

The Citizens Public Library Advisory Committee (CPLAC) was appointed by the City Council to
make an advisory recommendation to the Council regarding goals and objectives for the City of
Santa Clarita Public Library for the period of FY 2011-2014. The Committee's recommendations in
this document are the formal product of seven sessions of Committee member work from
December 2010 January through June 2011. This document provides a draft set of goals and
objectives based on the final discussion of the Committee on June 09.
In arriving at these recommendations, the Committee members considered the results of a
Community Survey completed by 2,930 individuals, opinions given in 20 focus group sessions by
approximately 200 persons, individual resident opinions solicited by Committee members, the
members' own knowledge of Santa Clarita, and over 14 hours of Committee deliberations.

Eight goals, based on community needs, were developed after the Committee selected a set of
service priorities to be addressed the Library. For each goal, at least one measurable objective was
prepared. In several cases the objectives have blanks for quantitative measures that have not yet
been provided. All missing quantitative measures relate to the circulation of materials from the
library collection. These data are not provided because no data is available regarding the
circulation of sub-categories of the collection.
While the aggregate number of items previously borrowed from the three Santa Clarita libraries is
known, no data is available indicating the circulation of adult non-fiction, adult fiction, juvenile
collection categories, or audiovisual items. Without this information, it would be very difficult to set
targets based on prior experience. While the CPLAC would have preferred to submit
recommendations, for which all objectives had numerical targets, it is understood that targets set
without reliable baseline data likely would be either too high or low. The CPLAC recommends that
after a period of time not less than three months and not more than six months after July 1, 2011,
all missing targets will be provided by staff to the City using baseline data collected in the initial
months of service.

June 27, 2011 Library Systems & Services, LLC Page 1 of 10