FY25 Strategic Plan

Project Description: The Salt Lake City Public Library (SLCPL) seeks a consultant to develop a comprehensive strategic plan. This plan should provide goals, measurable objectives, and practical strategies to guide SLCPL staff for the next 4-8 years. The plan should be informed by a community-centered, asset-based approach and capture the evolving needs of our city and its neighborhoods, including those that have emerged since the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan may also involve reviewing the library’s existing mission statement and adding a vision statement, and could make recommendations on necessary investments, organizational structures, and supports to best achieve identified goals.
SLCPL’s next strategic plan should build on the community’s existing aspirations and pave the path for the Library to provide the right mix of services, resources, and community connections they need to bring these aspirations to life. SLCPL’s Strategic Plan should be sustainable and achievable within the time period set. The final product will include a public document which shares our goals and priorities with our wider community and positions SLCPL as a continued leader of the evolving, innovative role of urban public libraries – as well as relevant supporting documents, frameworks, or other recommendations necessary to ensure the successful implementation of the plan.