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Queens Public Library's future vision and plans for expanding outreach
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Council Member Brooks-Powers inquires about QPL's long-term vision for sustaining and growing demand, especially in light of rising library attendance. Dennis Walcott outlines QPL's strategic plan and expansion efforts.
- QPL has initiated a new five-year strategic plan with eight critical objectives
- The plan focuses on services for various groups including the elderly, teens, and immigrants
- Potential expansion of Sunday services for all three library systems
- Ongoing capital programming for library expansion, such as the Auburn project
- Emphasis on the need for city investment to support staffing and service expansion
Selvena Brooks-Powers
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Thank you for that.
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And my last question is regarding the future vision and expanding outreach and with library attendance rising in Council District 31 as you mentioned before which we're excited about and across Queen's, what is QPL's long term vision for sustaining and growing this demand?
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How does QPL plan to expand outreach programming and services to continue engaging more residents especially as renovations and new investments take place?
Dennis Walcott
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So we have just started our new five year strategic plan with specific emphasis on around eight critical objectives in our expansion of services and the refinement of our services, which includes the elderly, teen services, immigrants, and other objectives.
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And that will be part of our continued growth and refinement of our program services to the public.
0:58:07
So we're excited about that and that's specifically for the Queen's Public Library community.
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In addition to that with what the speaker talked about in our State of the City as far as the expansion of Sunday services for all three systems, that'll be another way to do that and we're taking a look at where those potential sites will be.
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And the final thing for me is how we continue the expansion through our capital programming.
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You know, Auburn is about to I think the clapboard is up there right now for construction taking place for the expansion.
0:58:41
Auburn will stay open and we'll be building on the vacant lot.
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And as we continue to expand our site, we will be able to expand our services as well.
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But that requires the investment from the city to allow us to have the staff to do that.
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So it's a combination of investment but also program vision of what we're gonna do.