Library Board Meeting Date: November 12, 2025
To: Library Board Members
From: Natalie Draper, Library Director
Title
2026 Library Board Priorities.
Body
Action Requested:
The Library Board discusses priorities for 2026.
Summary Report:
Accessibility, Safety, and Sustainability are the primary areas of focus for the library in 2026 so in addition to the strategic plan reports there will be periodic reports focused more specifically on projects we are undertaking to achieve these goals. In January the Board may discuss this work forming the basis for a new strategic plan for the library.
Projects:
* Have a plan in place to install hearing loop in Bunday Room, service desks
o Hearing loop is a technology that allows patrons with hearing loss to hear better than with simple amplification. City Hall utilizes this in Council Chambers.
* Drafting new policies
o meeting room use
o Accessibility
o Artificial Intelligence (mostly with respect to patron and personnel privacy, vendor policies, and best practices for review)
o Warming/cooling shelter activation (this would be a city-wide policy)
* Finalizing grant-funded project to replace shelving in children's, expand teen space
* Ensuring WCAG 2.1 compliance for our website, online documents, and social media accounts (deadline is 4/2027)
* Continuing work on the site plans with landscape architects, city departments.
o Review current options attached
o Plans are coming along, proceeding to explore funding options. Possible Local Option Sales Tax campaign, other fundraising and grant-seeking
o The three priorities for the site plan are: Sustainable, Accessible, Safe.
* Achieving certification as a "sustainable library". "The Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI) provides library leaders with a proven path forward to co-create libraries and communities that will thrive in the coming years. The Sustainable Library Certification Program and the SLI community of practice focuses your leadership to enable your libr...
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