The Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives has published its Strategic Plan FY 2008-2013. This is a large color PDF file (about 34 MB).
Here are three brief excerpts:
By 2013 we expect to have in place:
- Increased digital content holdings
- Capability to produce and receive sustainable digital content from multiple sources
- A stewardship network of collaborative partners
- Recommendations on digital content information architecture, preservation and access
- Recommendations on public policy for digital content preservation and access
Through 2013, we expect to:
- Increase use and awareness of content and services by target user communities
- Improve integrated search and discovery
- Secure delivery of digital content and services
- Enable multiple ways/methods of access to digital content and services
- Facilitate integration of the Library’s primary sources into K–12 educational settings
- and networks
Key outcomes associated with our technology infrastructure objective include:
- Secured, available and scalable technology infrastructure
- Defined Library of Congress technical infrastructure for shared tools and services
- among networked entities
- Defined future institution-wide architecture and support for a national networked
- digital information architectural framework
- Specialized institutional digital media repository services
- Preserved authentic digital content over time.
