Our priorities
1. Engaging communities
Priority actions
- Raising awareness of the richness of our library and archive collections, their value to all Tasmanians, and Libraries Tasmania’s contribution to Tasmania’s cultural landscape.
- Bringing people back into our public spaces post lockdown.
- Leveraging existing relationships and establishing new ones with government, business and the not-for profit sector to expand our reach and strengthen our delivery.
- Investing in our physical and virtual spaces to bring them inline with contemporary standards.
2. Enabling universal access to our collections
Priority actions
- Revitalising and giving prominence to the State Library, Tasmanian Archives and Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts.
- Driving the digitisation of our heritage collections.
- Ensuring authentic engagement with First Nations peoples to shape collections and services for all Tasmanians.
- Renewing our focus on the relevance of our collections to diverse audiences,
- sourcing books, materials, and electronic resources to fit Tasmanians’ current needs and interests.
3. Connecting people to information
Priority actions
- Increasing the engagement of young people with libraries and archives, and ensuring their voice is heard.
- Clearly articulating and strengthening our contribution to state priorities: education, health, economic development, environmental sustainability, and tourism.
- Using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to define our agenda around access to information for all.
- Connecting learners with the information they need through a new Lifelong Learning Information Service.
4. Championing lifelong learning
Priority actions
- Inspiring a love of reading for pleasure across the Tasmanian population to keep people learning for life.
- Retaining our leadership position in Australian media literacy, combating the spread of fake news, mis-, mal-, and disinformation
- Being a centre for all forms of literacy and numeracy development at every life stage
- Prioritising the library learning programs and activities which provide the greatest benefit to Tasmanians.
5. Strengthening organisational effectiveness
Priority actions
- Developing a vision and strategy for a workforce to deliver high quality contemporary library and archives services.
- Investing in our people; encouraging and enabling ongoing professional learning.
- Providing a strong supporting infrastructure and operational framework.
- Further developing good governance and a culture of collaboration.
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