SOUTH DAKOTA'S LIBRARIES--
BUILDING TOWARD 2002
A Statewide Plan for the Development of Library and Information Services
1998-2002
THE ROLE OF FEDERAL SUPPORT
During the five-year period October 1, 1997- September 30, 2002, the South Dakota State Library will focus on three key objectives taken from the Library Services and Technology Act and the related priority areas identified by the statewide focus forums:
- GOAL 1. to enhance the delivery of information to South Dakota's citizens through a combination of improved technology and continuing education that will enable South Dakota's librarians and staff to provide the highest possible level of service to their patrons;
- GOAL 2. to emphasize special library services which contribute to improved access to information and library services for all people of the state delivering the information in the appropriate format, at the appropriate location, and within the time frame required by the patron; and
- GOAL 3. to provide equal access to information for South Dakota's citizens no matter what their age, economic status, or place of residence.
South Dakota has a wide range of technology currently available at some libraries while others have no telephone and the newest technology available is an electric typewriter. As South Dakota moves toward 2000, the Governor has established as a goal to have every school wired and to have in place an electronic infrastructure that will support all of the technology needed to deliver electronic data to the local level. This infrastructure will be accessible to libraries.
During the focus group meetings, recommendations were gathered from the participants concerning training needs, equipment needs, political barriers, and infrastructure needs that must be met in order to enable the local libraries to deliver library and information services in the most effective way.
Based on the results of the focus group discussions, South Dakota will work toward the following goals:
- A. Internet (or it's successor) and SDLN access in every library in South Dakota by 2002. To meet this goal the State Library proposes collaboration with library related associations and interest groups, the SD Department of Education and Cultural Affairs, Division of Education and other state agencies charged with the responsibility of expanding the state's telecommunications infrastructure.
OBJECTIVES- Every school library will have access by 2002.
- Every public library that meets the state's definition of legally established public library shall have Internet and SDLN access by 2002. The ratio of population per terminal shall be:
Public Library Computer Access Recommendations: Population Minimum Internet Public Access Terminals 1-3,000 1 3,001-7,500 2 7,501-15,000 3 15,001-Over 1 terminal per 5,000 population - The State Library shall provide access for citizens who are not served by a local library.
- B. Libraries in South Dakota will be encouraged to become full members of the South Dakota Library Network.
OBJECTIVES- By 2002 all public school districts serving 1,500 or more students in K-12 shall be full members of the South Dakota Library Network.
- By 2002 all libraries meeting the definition of legally established public libraries and that serve a population of 5,000 or more shall be full members of the South Dakota Library Network.
- SD State Library will actively work with the South Dakota Library Association to form a coalition for advocating a statewide stable base of funding supporting technology in libraries.
- SD State Library shall utilize LSTA funding to provide challenge grants to academic, public, and school libraries or to multitype consortia for the purpose of expanding or enhancing technology in libraries.
Improvement in the availability of funding for access.
Number of LSTA grants awarded and evaluation reports from those grants.
Progress toward universal access.
Building Towards 2002 -- Attachment A -- Goal 1 -- Goal 2 -- Goal 3