Community Partnerships
Action Item:
By 2026, the School Library Team will conduct another round of identifying and collaborating with community partners by following the steps outlined below:
Create a "partnership map" to identify and categorize the Lakewood School Library's partners
Identify 1-3 desired outcomes for current and future partnerships
Create a plan for guiding our partnerships toward our desired outcome(s)
Potential collaborations:
Littles in the Library (new this upcoming year-2023)
Library card drive
BOB outreach night collaborative with the community library
Summary
As part of the ISTE Course Exploring Future-Ready Librarianship: Practices for the Emerging Leader, both Kristine and Erin went through the process of learning to improve the intentionality and mutual benefit of our community partnerships. The goals and action steps that we create through this process will be based on desired outcomes of our library program.
Step 1 will be to identify current or potential community partners that fit into one or more of the following categories: Volunteer partner, Funding partner, Industry partners, Project partner, Thought partner, Leadership partner
Step 2 will be to identify and record our desired outcome(s) for our community partnership(s), and identify which of our current/potential partners would mutually benefit from this partnership.
Step 3 will be to put together an action plan with/for our community partner(s) and follow through on our plan.