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Ames Public Library Strategic Plan

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Library customers will have access to information and materials about Ames and the surrounding area in order to discover their heritage and explore their community.

 

Activities:

  • Create a new Iowa collection and lounge to highlight materials from
    the Iowa Room. [Lounge Team]
  • Promote and preserve the Farwell T. Brown Photographic Archive.
    [Information Services Work Group]
  • Continue to cooperate with the Ames Historical Society so that research collections in each entity complement, not duplicate, each other. [Reference Specialist]
  • Select a cost-effective and user-friendly platform for the community
    organizations file and implement an orderly migration of the existing data. [Virtual Reference Specialist]
  • Investigate cost-effective and user-friendly alternatives for the Tribune index and implement an orderly migration of the existing data. [Information Services Work Group]
  • Continue to support genealogical groups with appropriate electronic and print resources. [Information Services Work Group]
  • Continue to offer instruction in the use of electronic genealogy databases such as HeritageQuest. [Computer Class Planning Committee]

Measures of Success:

  • The annual number of searches in HeritageQuest Online will remain
    the same or increase.
  • After an initial baseline, the annual circulation of the local and Iowa collections will remain the same or increase.
  • The number of uses of the community resources database will remain the same or increase.

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