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crl-14878	Birdsall, Douglas G.; Hensley, Oliver D.	A New Strategic Planning Model for Academic Libraries	1994	12	.pdf	application/pdf	3569	141	40	The journal literature discusses such subjects as the appropriateness of strategic planning for libraries, the incorporation of organizational values into the strategic planning process, the entrepreneurial spirit, implementation and first-year ap- praisal, and utilization of strategic plan- ning by new directors at ARL libraries.2 There are also studies of strategic planning in public libraries, state chapters, a school of library and information science, urban libraries, rural libraries, national libraries, and internationallibraries.3 The Association of Research Libraries issued a SPEC Kit on strategic planning as early as 1984, and the Association of College and Research Libraries has offered a continuing education course (Principles of Strategic Planning in the Library Environmenf') and developed a strategic plan for charting the future direction of the Association.• A mono- graph published in 1992 by the Society of Douglas G. Birdsall is Associate Director of Libraries for Information Access and Systems and Oliver D. Hensley is Professor of Education at Texas Teclz University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-()002. 149 150 College & Research Libraries Research Administrators, Strategic Planning for University Research, offers a model for strategic planning which may be the best fit yet for academic libraries.6 Strategic plan- ning for university research is a process of establishing the future purposes of a unit by striving for a consensus for developing its research with chief partners and major constituencies.	cache/crl-14878.pdf	txt/crl-14878.txt