Strategic Plan (2026-2028)
Goals
- Goal 1: Recruit, train, and retain leaders
- Goal 2: Clarify and streamline chapter documentation to improve accessibility
- Goal 3: Increase chapter membership by engaging with identified populations
- Goal 4: Improve utility of Chapter website for members and potential members
Leadership
- Presidents (immediate past, current, and president-elect) draft a proposed charge and deliverables for a group of members to work on this goal. Deadline: April 2026
- President calls for volunteers to coordinate and work on this goal. Deadline: August 2026
- Introduce the group to chapter membership at the annual business meeting. Deadline: October 2026
- Group reports back to Board with initial recommendations. Deadline: December 2026
- Group reports to Board at their bimonthly meetings: progress, successes, challenges. Deadline: ongoing
Objective 1: Identify leadership development and support needs
Y1 (October 2026)
Y2 (October 2027)
- President and President-Elect will work with committee chairs and the Nominations and Elections Committee to identify challenges and potential solutions to succession planning. Deadline: October 2026
- President and Immediate Past President will report their findings to the Board. Deadline: December 2026 board meeting
Objective 2: Implement succession planning procedures for committees and elected offices
Y1 (October 2026)
Y2 (October 2027)
Documentation
- President will convene a group to review status of current documentation. Deadline: July 2026
- Group will compile a document listing the current situation and action items for improvement. Deadline: September 2026
- Archivist and Communications Committee will identify storage and accessibility concerns and solutions. Deadline: December 31, 2026
- Archivist and Communications will present their findings to the Board for discussion. Deadline: March 31, 2027
- Archivist and Communications will create a document regarding storage structure that will be made available to current and future leaders. Deadline: December 31, 2027
- Communications will communicate the new storage structure to chapter members and the public. Deadline: June 30, 2028
Objective 1: Review and update existing chapter documents for currency and accuracy
Y1 (October 2026)
Objective 2: Identify strategies to improve storage and accessibility of chapter documents (both working and archival documents) that avoids use of members’ personal hosted drives
Y2 (October 2027)
Objective 3: Document the resulting storage structure to communicate with chapter leaders and members
Y2 (October 2027)
Membership
- Perform an inventory to identify library schools and find contacts for each school; identify what groups are working with the library schools, such as state medical library associations, other chapters, MLA, etc. Lead: State Liaisons Committee
- Create a welcome email for new student members to the chapter. Lead: Membership
- Using information from the audit, identify opportunities for engagement. Opportunities might include email blasts, programming, and promoting professional services. Lead: State Liaisons Committee
- Implement new programs and review opportunities. Lead: TBD
- Perform an inventory to identify what medical library groups and associations are already doing. Lead: Membership to conduct the survey
- Identify areas to promote mentorship, for example – promote opportunities for mentorship on the chapter listserv, offering to connect library students with a mentor in a welcome email; bring back the first-time conference attendee mentor opportunity. Lead: PPC
- Implement new programs and review opportunities. Lead: TBD
- The Membership Secretary and Committee develop a plan to identify potential new members (getting names from current members of new colleagues; welcome wagon?). Deadline: August 2026 Board Meeting
- Membership Secretary and Committee present their report to the Board. Deadline: August 2026 Board Meeting
- The Membership Secretary and Committee communicate and implement their plan to identify potential new members. Deadline: 2026 Annual Business Meeting
- Membership Secretary and Committee personally welcome new professionals to the area, providing them with information about the Chapter and its activities and merch. Deadline: ongoing: within 4 weeks of joining
- Add welcoming and informational content to the website. Lead: Communications
- Add a newsletter, calendar, or some form of periodically updated content to the website. PPC will continue scheduling member mixers. Lead: Communications
- Review methods of engagement and determine what to focus on. Lead: Communications
- Audit the abstract submission process. Lead: PPC
- Identify areas for opportunity, for instance: reach out to new members to with information presenting at conferences. Lead: PPC
- Consider how we might support chapter members in conferences beyond our chapter. Lead: PPC
- With Annual Conferences, the Board will approve and publish a 3-year conference format calendar on the chapter website. Deadline: February 2026 board meeting
- The approved schedule will be communicated to the members and published on the web site. Deadline: 2026 Business Meeting
- Presidents (immediate past, current, and president-elect) draft a proposed plan. Deadline: May 2026
- Immediate Past President (in her PCC role) will schedule a Member Mixer to discuss the web site needs with members. Deadline: July 2026
- PPC holds a Member Mixer to get feedback from members about the website. Deadline: October 2026
- Web site revisions are made. Deadline: December 2026