New Report: “Assessment of the Library of Congress’s Digital Strategy”
From the Office of the Inspector General, Library of Congress:
The Library’s digital planning and execution activities have resulted in numerous accomplishments.
Despite these achievements, more work remains to clearly connect the Digital Collections Strategy and Digitization Strategy to the Library’s overall strategic planning and governance processes. Not doing so puts the Library at greater risk of not meeting its overall strategic goals.
The Library Would Benefit from More Clearly Connecting Its Digital Collections Strategy and Digitization Strategy to Its Overall Strategic Planning Efforts
The Digital Collections Strategy and the Digitization Strategy play significant parts in the Library’s ability to meet its overall strategic goals, but LCSG has not followed SPPM’s strategic planning guidance and made the linkages clear. This includes linkages between the overall strategic goals, the performance goals in LCSG’s 2019-2023 directional plans, and the objectives in the Digital Collections Strategy and Digitization Strategy.
Learn More, Direct to Full Text Report (18 pages; PDF)
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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