Reframing Library Organizations for the Future with the CT State Library & TFSX | Open Cohort Application November 7th-9th

[Gail Hurley]

 

 

 

 

Reframing Library Organizations:  Implementing Strategic Foresight Tools to Create Future Ready Library Operating Systems The CT State Library and partner TFSX are pleased to offer 3-day virtual professional development opportunities for organizational cohorts. November 7th- 9th, Open Cohort Applications due October 3rd: Transformation for Libraries - my.TFSX Daily Schedule You must be able to commit to the full 3-day program. Please note all sessions are virtual. Each day we will join together for the following: 8:30 am - 12 pm | Morning Session 12 - 1:30 pm | Break 1:30 - 5 pm | Afternoon Session There will be a unique Zoom link for each morning and afternoon session. It is important to be present for the full program since the content builds, and you will be contributing to the same small group during the three days. **Please note all cohorts will be held virtually.** Building on four years of the IMLS-supported Transformation for Libraries: The Futures School, the CT State Library and partner TFSX (formerly Kedge: The Futures School) are training organizational cohorts, including library systems, associations, library schools and partner networks. The initial phase empowered individuals with strategic foresight, successfully training over 400 library workforce members. In this next iteration, the initiative takes a systems perspective, integrating strategic foresight into operations and infusing futures thinking into institutional capacity, cultural shifts, technological innovation, model processes, and succession planning. Each cohort trains a team of staff members with foresight tools to lead their library to the future. Success in the 21st century landscape of rapid change means we must embrace new pathways to the future. We need to foster mindsets and skills that help us to seize untapped possibilities and opportunities. Strategic foresight is a framework that creates multiple future scenarios, envisioning outcomes and evaluating current and pending strategies to support decision making and action in the present against a suite of possible futures. We invite state libraries, county libraries, consortia, associations, library schools, partner networks, or other library systems to participate in this IMLS-funded project. This project was made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant #RE-250063-OLS-21 in the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program.

 

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