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Strategic Directions 2024-2027

Our organisation

Libraries Tasmania provides contemporary library and archives services to all Tasmanians.

Libraries Tasmania is comprised of the State Library and Archives of Tasmania (including the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts), 46 public libraries, the Risdon Prison library service, and the Office of the State Archivist.

Our Why

Bright Lives. Positive Futures.

Our How

Every Tasmanian is connected with reading and ideas, and our histories and cultures, in welcoming, safe, inclusive spaces. 

Our Values

Our values are connection, courage, growth, respect and responsibility.

Our Strategic Priorities 2024-2027

  • Grow literacy and reading.
  • Increase engagement with our cultural collections.
  • Improve client engagement and experience.
  • Ensure our collections and spaces are culturally safe for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
  • Curate collections and spaces that are inclusive and celebrate diversity.

Our Foundations

  • A valued and capable workforce.
  • Strong partnerships with community.
  • Improvement informed by inquiry and evidence.
  • Sustainable operations.
  • Physical and digital infrastructure.

Our priorities

Build, manage and share cultural collections and contemporary information resources

Strategic priorities and priority actions

  1. Establish a new State Library and Archives of Tasmania identity
  2. Activate cultural collections
  3. Build a diverse and relevant collection

Manage and ensure retention and access to Tasmanian Government records to strengthen government accountability

Strategic priorities and priority actions

  1. Respond to the report of the Commission of Inquiry
  2. Streamline service access

Share and provide access to a living cultural collection

Strategic priorities and priority actions

  1. Review governance
  2. Increase visibility
  3. Address cultural safety

Provide universal access to a single public library network of contemporary collections, services and spaces

Strategic priorities and priority actions

  1. Grow literacy and reading
  2. Foster inclusion
  3. Improve client engagement and experience

Support organisation-wide effectiveness and efficiency

Strategic priorities and priority actions

  1. Develop a valued and capable workforce
  2. Implement system innovation and improvement
  3. Develop sustainable operations

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