The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County is holding a series of public forums as it looks to set a path for the next five years.The library is hosting aseries of forums this week to get input from their users about how it should proceed in the future.
Strategic Initiatives Director Shelli Dronsfield says the library's five-year plan ends in December and a new one is in the works.
"Libraries and the function and the usage of them have changed so much over the past five years, ten years," says Dronsfield. "We're just constantly trying to adapt to what our customers are saying that they need, that they want. The current benefits that we provide to them, are they in the direction of what they need or do we need to be looking at doing something totally different?"
The strategic plan will carry the library from 2017 through 2022. The plan does not affect funding. The current ten-year library levy, approved by voters in 2013, runs through 2024.
Dronsfield says the input will be gathered into a report and analyzed. She says a report is expected to be presented to the library's board of trustees in the next two to four months. The board plans to adopt the next strategic plan by the end of the year.
Forum Information
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
- 10–11:30 a.m. at the Mariemont Branch Library.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
- 9:30–11:00 a.m. at the Monfort Heights Branch Library.
- 1–2:30 p.m. at the Madeira Branch Library.
- 7–8:30 p.m. at the Mariemont Branch Library.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
- 7–8:30 p.m. at the Monfort Heights Branch Library.
If you can't attend one of the forums, you can share your comments and suggestions with the Library through this online survey.