Staff reviews Year 2 of Dallas Public Library strategic plan and Year 3 priorities

Staff (S2) presented a Year 2 recap of the Dallas Public Library strategic plan and sketched Year 3 priorities, focusing on reimagining Central Library, expanding youth services and aligning programming to community needs.

"The strategic plan is largely guided by 4 key values that we identified in the process," S2 said, citing community learning, access and innovation as organizing values for the system. Staff highlighted Central Library condition assessments, a new security camera system, a west‑side garden for programming and work to right‑size collections for local needs.

Other Year 2 outcomes included piloting a regional/flagship model informed by data and a plan to create a public dashboard for statistics; staff said procurement delays slowed some world‑language collection rollouts but that the collections are now on shelves. Year 3 priorities include implementing the flagship model, continuing the reimagine Central work and creating a new staffing model to support expanded hours and youth services.