Models of strategic plans in public libraries around the world

This article presents the models of strategic plans for some public libraries from America, Australia, Britain and Asia published on their websites on the World Wide Web, by reviewing the elements of those plans in terms of visions, mission and goals that those libraries seek to achieve and the time periods of those plans, in addition to evaluating the strategic plans Introduction to monitor the variance in the plans used in those libraries and to determine the effectiveness of the strategic plans used.
This article aims to identify pioneering models of strategic planning as a basic activity in public libraries, based on practice in a series of public libraries. The purpose of this chapter is to identify the strategic plans used by libraries that carry out strategic planning. Each element of the strategic plan (executive summary, mission, goals, strengths and weaknesses, and timeline) discusses the level of detail in the plans (both some of which exceeded a large number of pages, while some did not exceed a single page.
Through this presentation, some models of public libraries will be selected that cover geographically dispersed and diverse places of the world, varying in sizes and in the environment they serve, to closely identify the models of plans used in them, as some of the following libraries models have been identified through their websites The plans were reviewed from the website of each library on the Internet, meaning that the information used as the basis for this chapter was collected online. The plans were usually found in the link (About Us) for some models of Arab libraries such as the Sharjah Public Library, or through (from We) (About Us) in the foreign libraries link.)