Strategic Plan

After a thorough and thoughtful process, the Weymouth Public Libraries have released a new Strategic Plan for fiscal year 2023 through fiscal year 2027. This plan incorporates insights gained from extensive community and staff feedback that was gathered in late 2021. Thank you to the many people who shared their time and thoughts with us! 

Based on the community's needs, hopes, and aspirations identified through the feedback process, the library crafted a new mission statement and identified four priority areas to support wider and deeper community impact in its work over the next five years. This planning process will be further supported by annual Action Plans that the library will create to set specific annual goals.

Click here to read the full Weymouth Public Libraries FY23-FY27 Strategic Plan.

Click here to read the Weymouth Public Libraries FY24 Action Plan.

Click here to read the Weymouth Public Libraries FY25 Action Plan.

FY23: Action Plan / Accomplishments

Weymouth Public Libraries Mission and Priorities

Weymouth Public Libraries celebrates and sustains the growth of community, collaboration, and culture through traditions of reading, learning, and sharing.

Priority Area 1: A Hub for Reading, Learning, and Culture

Weymouth Public Libraries reaffirms its commitment to support and celebrate reading and learning for enjoyment, personal growth, and discovery. We promote literacy in all forms, including civic, cultural, media, technology, financial, and health literacies. We provide informal education and lifelong learning opportunities for all ages.

• We advocate for and promote books, reading, and greater understanding of our diverse community, country, and world. 
• We actively engage with community organizations to welcome and foster new readers and provide cultural and educational opportunities.
• We prioritize collection resources in response to residents’ needs and ensure that our collection and our shared access to other library collections reflect and support our community.
• We prioritize enrichment opportunities through library presentations and programs, cultural events, and access to outside cultural experiences through the library. 

Priority Area 2: A Place for Everyone

The library provides a welcoming, inclusive, and safe community space, where ideas and thoughts are embraced. We reach out into the community to promote library use and to encourage all to seek out opportunities to improve their lives through the Weymouth Public Libraries. 

• We look outward into the community for creative and equitable ways to serve the underserved, and to identify and address barriers to use.
• We seek out community partners to build opportunities to embrace diversity and to promote the library as a valuable and respectful community resource for all.
• We strive to be a trusted resource; we advocate for and support the tenets of intellectual freedom.
• We recognize the current need to reach community members where they are, and commit to using a variety of communication methods as much as practicable.

Priority Area 3: Community Connections and Engagement

The Library strives to be at the heart of Weymouth, supporting and strengthening our community by fostering social cohesion and cultivating opportunities for Weymouth residents to come together through shared spaces, resources, and events.

• We maintain and develop existing community relationships and actively seek out opportunities to connect with new partners, to develop and promote services and resources for the benefit of the community.
• We leverage our public spaces, staff knowledge and skills, and community relationships to provide opportunities for common experiences that build community by bringing people together.
• We are the go-to place for both new and long-term residents to access information about their community.
• We are a leader in the preservation and sharing of Weymouth’s long and rich history.

Priority Area 4: Focus on the Future

Weymouth Public Libraries recognizes that the Weymouth community, our society, and technology are continually changing. The library commits to expanding and improving its ability to provide a wide range of evolving services that will sustain and enhance the quality of life in Weymouth.

• We solicit and incorporate feedback from the community as we continually work to improve library services, advocating for prudent investment of new resources from the Town or other funding as needed.
• We provide inclusive opportunities for people to come together to explore and adapt to our evolving community. 
• We recruit and employ service-oriented, skilled, and knowledgeable staff who ensure first-rate public service, reflect our community, and are active participants in developing new services.
• We recognize the critical need to focus on technology and its ongoing changes to effectively communicate, share information and resources, and keep the library relevant.