One of my professional goals this year was to ensure the ongoing success of the library by creating a strategic plan to guide our operations over the next few years. While I’m a little behind schedule, I’ve finally managed to conduct a SWOT analysis with my lovely library assistant. This was something I’d initially been introduced to during the ETL504 Teacher-Librarian as Leader unit, but not something I felt particularly confident completing without a bit of guidance. I therefore created a planning sheet based on some questions I’d found online and took about half an hour to consider our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
This year I signed up to be part of the ALIA Mentoring Scheme (which is free for members) and I’ve got another meeting this Wednesday with my mentor where I’ll go through this in further detail. I still need to add specific elements from the staff feedback I analysed earlier in the year, but this is a great starting place for me to consider our plan of action moving forward.