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Strategic Plan

RIPS-SIS Strategic Plan 2023-2028

Mission: Through an active, engaged, and diverse community, RIPS promotes and fosters the development of all law librarians in their efforts to provide exceptional research instruction and patron services at their institutions.

Vision: To foster an engaged, active, and diverse membership, which allows collaboration and skill development for all librarian positions and types; to be on the forefront of innovations in research instruction and patron services within all legal information institutions.

Goal 1: Foster an active, diverse, and growing membership.

Action Item/Strategies:

  1. Create a committee to establish a robust and formal Professional Development program.
  2. Develop a programming series applicable to a variety of library types for differing skill levels.
  3. Design a system to identify member鈥檚 library type and activity level while ensuring every other year review of membership demographics.
  4. Priority should be given to non-RIPS and RIPS members who have not served on a committee in three or more years by reaching out to them, educating them on what RIPS does, encouraging membership, and fostering increased involvement.

Goal 2: Provide current and forward looking practical resources and programming on research instruction and patron services to be utilized by law librarians across different library types and patron groups.

Action Item/Strategies:

  1. Reach out to a diverse range of members and non-members, in a variety of ways, to curate and create resources that support the needs of members in delivering instructional and patron services.
  2. Organize, share, and publicize resources to the law librarian community.
  3. Develop, coordinate, and implement professional development programming targeted to wide range of librarians and library types.
  4. Actively seek out collaborations with other organizations to break down silos and create cross-membership programming and initiatives.

Goal 3: Increase and provide transparency in RIPS-SIS process and procedures as well as ensure continuation of active and engaged membership in committees.

Action Items/Strategies:

  1. Establish liaisons who:
    1. take an active role in helping chair set goals for the year,
    2. establish deadlines throughout the year, and
    3. meet on a regular schedule to be determined by liaison and chair.
  2. Require committees to submit periodic reports beyond the annual report.
  3. Require each committee to annually evaluate their charge, plans, and goals.
  4. Establish assessment for committee success in meeting goals; and procedure for when committee is in danger of not achieving goals or a committee has not met its goals.
  5. Rethink committee structure and approach to create more nimble, shorter project groups.
  6. Board will document policies and procedures related to RIPS-SIS governance and make documents available for member review.

Goal 4: Integrate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive practices into all RIPS policies, procedures, and practices.

Action Item/Strategies:

  1. Add another member to the Executive Board specifically focused on DEI and/or make a current Board member/position a co-chair of RIPS-SIS DEI Committee. This person will coordinate with other RIPS Committees to ensure DEI is permeating through RIPS; if it is not, then the Board and committee (with consultation by DEI Taskforce) will work to correct this omission.
  2. Create, develop, and support programming that is focused on DEI issues and resources.
  3. Require each committee to consider DEI principles in their annual plans and goals.
  4. Actively promote and engage in activities to make RIPS more inclusive, welcoming, and inviting to non-traditional RIPS members.

Final Draft Approved June 23, 2023.