Abstract
This report explored the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)’s strategic planning process for 2020-2025 during COVID-19. The paper introduced CALA’s mission statement, values, and discussed the importance of the strategic plan. A strategic planning task force was formed to create an opportunity for membership input in virtual town hall meetings and surveys. The authors presented a case study on the process of revising a strategic plan and discussed the implementation phases. The authors also shared the challenges and recommendations in organizing strategic planning for a library association.
Highlights
In the spring of 2020, members of Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) devised a plan to organize the set of strategic priorities for 2020-2025
In the spring of 2020, members of CALA devised a plan to organize the set of strategic priorities for 2020-2025
To move CALA forward, CALA President Fu Zhuo 2019-2020 appointed members to serve on a taskforce to research and update a strategic plan for CALA in January 2020
Summary
In the spring of 2020, members of CALA (the Chinese American Librarians Association) devised a plan to organize the set of strategic priorities for 2020-2025. As a global library association focused on professional development and opportunities for members across the world, it was important to review CALA’s mission and vision statements as stated in the 2015-2020 Strategic Plan. Make CALA’s Impact on Local, State, National, and International Levels Another change to the goals included moving the goal Provide Professional Development Opportunities through Training and Mentoring to third place from fourth place. As the pandemic set our new norms for working and engaging with people, there were opportunities to unite members more in the virtual environment Another focus for the goals was to continue supporting CALA members’ leadership and career development. At the local chapter level, the new plan set up objectives to foster collaborations among chapters by providing opportunities to host joint training or online conferences This came up because of the success that collaborations achieved in recent years.
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