Introducing our Strategic Plan 2025-2028

Strategic Plan

We’re excited to announce that after several months of consultation and collaboration, our new Strategic Plan is ready! This plan reflects our shared values and diverse membership needs and sets a clear direction for where we are headed over the next three years. In early 2028, we will identify new actions to build on what has been accomplished and continue progress toward our goals to 2030.

Strategic Plan 2025 – 2028 

We commit to working in good relations with Indigenous peoples. We aspire to humbly learn and integrate decolonizing practices into our work. Within these goals, we will seek new ways to leverage our resources to work towards reconciliation.

Our goals

1. Strengthen the Co-op’s financial and organizational resiliency
2. Mature the Co-op’s platforms and services
3. Deepen member engagement and communication
4. Support emerging member needs

We are a source of support and continuity for members as we navigate social, technological, and sector changes. To ensure that the Co-op remains a strong, reliable, and responsive partner, we will focus on these four key goals. These four goals form a virtuous circle, each goal enhancing and reinforcing the others.

By 2030 the BC Libraries Cooperative will be a more resilient organization, supported by a strong financial framework and robust platforms and services. 

Acknowledgments

Thank you to the many Co-op members, staff and Board members who contributed time and knowledge by participating in workshops, interviews, and planning activities. This process began in January of 2025, reviewing core documentation and reports, holding staff and board workshops, hosting member library focus groups, and working with the Board in the following months to form a strategic plan that will benefit the Co-op, our members, our services and the broader library sector in Canada.

The Co-op gratefully acknowledges the core funding provided by the Province of British Columbia through the Public Libraries Branch (PLB) of the Ministry of Housing & Municipal Affairs.

We thank our funders for recognizing the value of collaboration and cooperation. Their continued support affirms the importance of working together—an approach that remains essential as we move forward. This investment in collective infrastructure empowers the Co-op to deliver meaningful, sustainable services to our members and the communities they serve.