Library Board Meeting Date: May 13, 2026
To: Library Board Members
From: Natalie Draper, Library Director
Title
2026-27 Library Board Work Plan Update.
Body
Action Requested:
The Library Board Discusses an Updated Work Plan and Timeline.
Summary Report:
To bring the Library Board in line with appointments and onboarding schedule, the board will receive an updated work plan in May of each year.
Work plan and progress update:
Accessibility, Safety, and Sustainability are the primary areas of focus for the library in 2026-27, 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.
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.
o Project completed! College City Sertoma funded the equipment to loop service desks and the meeting room.
* Drafting new policies/procedures
o meeting room use
o Accessibility statement
* Web page created, updated with additional resources, staff accessibility coordinator identified (Tyler Gardner)
o Artificial Intelligence (mostly with respect to patron and personnel privacy, vendor policies, and best practices for review)
* In progress
o Warming/cooling shelter activation (this would be a city-wide policy)
* In progress
* Finalizing grant-funded project to replace shelving in children's, expand teen space
o In progress, additional funds awarded
* Ensuring WCAG 2.1 compliance for our website, online documents, and social media accounts by the 04/2028 deadline (extended by DOJ in April of this year)
o Summer interns may be working on action plan and tasks to be ahead of the deadline
* Continuing work on the site plans with landscape architects, city departments.
o Presented to Heritage Preservation Commission 5/6/2026
o Likely Local O...
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