Comments on: mission statements: mission impossible? http://librariesbuildcommunities.org/?p=48 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:29:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Chrystie http://librariesbuildcommunities.org/?p=48&cpage=1#comment-1081 Chrystie Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:42:36 +0000 http://librariesbuildcommunities.org/?p=48#comment-1081 That's a very good point! I have the Kingsley piece in my stack of reading to finish this week ~ thanks for the recommendation. Would love to hear from others w/ such statements (as well as the stories of how you came to them!) Here's another resource I came across this weekend, in case others are interested in the topic: LK Wallace, Libraries, Missions, and Marketing: writing mission statements that work, 2003. That’s a very good point! I have the Kingsley piece in my stack of reading to finish this week ~ thanks for the recommendation. Would love to hear from others w/ such statements (as well as the stories of how you came to them!)

Here’s another resource I came across this weekend, in case others are interested in the topic:
LK Wallace, Libraries, Missions, and Marketing: writing mission statements that work, 2003.

]]> By: Kathleen de la Pena McCook http://librariesbuildcommunities.org/?p=48&cpage=1#comment-1079 Kathleen de la Pena McCook Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:33:55 +0000 http://librariesbuildcommunities.org/?p=48#comment-1079 COMMUNITY BUILDING COMES OF AGE. The Clinton-Gore administration did a great deal of work on community building. Most of what was on gov't websites has been taken down, but it is vital that the work of the 1990s-- which is foundational to the book you are writing--be included. I think it essential that public library mission statements tie into community mission statements. Too often local institutions develop mission statements without incorporating community vision statements. If one's community has such a statement the library mission must be connected. Good background by G.Thomas Kinglsey, COMMUNITY BUILDING COMES OF AGE (Urban Institute, 1997). At the macro-level The Wisconsin Division for Libraries,Technology and Community Learning demonstrates the nested connection of unit mission to governing bodies. Mission statements don't get much betther than this: ======= Our mission is to work with communities to ensure learner success and stronger communities through family-school-community partnerships. The mission is directly related to Department Goals of Lifelong Learning and Partnerships. The DPI will promote lifelong learning so that individuals value learning, learn how to learn, demonstrate effective communication, thinking and problem solving, enjoy the quality of life, are fulfilled, experience the joy of learning, and contribute to and benefit from the intergenerational transmission of culture. The DPI will support the educational role and function of local education agencies (and organizations), families, and communities to increase local capacity to improve and ensure learning opportunities for the children and citizens of the community. http://dpi.wi.gov/dltcl/index.html COMMUNITY BUILDING COMES OF AGE. The Clinton-Gore administration did a great deal of work on community building. Most of what was on gov’t websites has been taken down, but it is vital that the work of the 1990s– which is foundational to the book you are writing–be included.

I think it essential that public library mission statements tie into community mission statements. Too often local institutions develop mission statements without incorporating community vision statements. If one’s community has such a statement the library mission must be connected.
Good background by G.Thomas Kinglsey, COMMUNITY BUILDING COMES OF AGE (Urban Institute, 1997).

At the macro-level The Wisconsin Division for Libraries,Technology and Community Learning demonstrates the nested connection of unit mission to governing bodies. Mission statements don’t get much betther than this:
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Our mission is to work with communities to ensure learner success and stronger communities through family-school-community partnerships. The mission is directly related to Department Goals of Lifelong Learning and Partnerships. The DPI will promote lifelong learning so that individuals value learning, learn how to learn, demonstrate effective communication, thinking and problem solving, enjoy the quality of life, are fulfilled, experience the joy of learning, and contribute to and benefit from the intergenerational transmission of culture.

The DPI will support the educational role and function of local education agencies (and organizations), families, and communities to increase local capacity to improve and ensure learning opportunities for the children and citizens of the community.
http://dpi.wi.gov/dltcl/index.html

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