Abstract
Typically, the strategic plans of other academic units at the college would provide the environmental context with which the library would analyze itself. Not having those available, we elected to measure ourselves against our peer and aspirant institutions. The library will engage in a second round of strategic planning once institutional strategic directions are identified. We deliberately avoided the discussion of monetary resource allocation in this planning. In and of itself, the actions the library will take are low cost. That can only be addressed once the college-level plan has been produced, institutional priorities identified, and funding allocated. The only safe cost assumption we can make is that as new academic programs that we have not traditionally supported are developed the library will need significant initial funding to procure resources to support those programs.