Planning

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Library Staff and the Library’s Trustees are excited to share news of new projects aimed at connecting with you, our community, to improve our Berkeley Public Library buildings, services, and programs.  Please check back on this page for updates and new projects.

Annual Report 2007

Take a look at Berkeley Public Library's 2007 Annual Report (5MB)

Branch Libraries Facilities Master Plan

The Board of Library Trustees hired Berkeley-based architecture and planning firm, Noll & Tam to evaluate the current conditions of the branch libraries. This document is the findings of the project. Branch Libraries Facilities Master Plan

Branch Libraries Facilities Master Plan Summary

This document provides library staff’s summary of the Berkeley Public Library Branch Library Facilities Master Plan. Summary of the Berkeley Public Library Branch Libraries Facilities Master Plan. (1.5MB)

About the Library Bond Measure FF

Based on the findings of the Branch Libraries Facilities Master Plan, the Berkeley City Council voted to put Measure FF on the ballot for the Novermber 2008 General Election. About the Library Bond Measure FF

Strategic Plan

In September 2008 the Board of Library Trustees voted to approve the Berkeley Public Library Strategic Plan, 2008-2011. Library staff undertook this process to define specific strategic service goals and initiatives that will guide both the staff and the Board in the allocation of Library resources during the forthcoming three-year period.

Berkeley Public Library Strategic Plan, 2008-2011

Southwest Berkeley Needs Assessment

Historically Southwest Berkeley has been, in part, an industrial area.  With this area rapidly changing and developing – west of Sacramento and south of Dwight Way to the Oakland and Emeryville borders – Berkeley Public Library has decided to do a Community Assessment of Unmet Library Needs to determine how people who live and work in this area use the library and how we might better serve them.

• Berkeley Public Library has launched a Community Survey of Unmet Library Needs in Southwest Berkeley. The survey will be available in both Spanish and English online at this web site as well as at all library locations in written paper format. The Library will also engage in Community Outreach in the Southwest Berkeley area to get survey participation from that area. For more info, call 510-981-6107.
  Press release , Survey Summary , Survey in English , Survey in Spanish

Library at ERC (Ed Roberts Campus) Discussion

Since being invited to join the proposed Ed Roberts Campus (ERC) project, the Board of Library Trustees has been discussing the possibility of Berkeley Public Library's participation. The project, which will be located at the east side of the Ashby BART station parking lot, is scheduled to break ground in 2008. To ensure all aspects of the opportunity were fully considered the Board appointed two Trustees to continue to study, along with library staff, the library service needs of the South and Southwest Berkeley communities and the opportunities and the issues associated with a move of the South Branch Library to ERC.

• Library Service Needs Update (7/07)
• South Berkeley Community Assessment of Library Needs, October 2006
  Prepared By Hatchuel Tabernik & Associates (HTA)
• Space Planning & Cost Analysis Report by Noll & Tam Architects
  Berkeley Public Library - Branch at Ed Roberts Campus
  Presented to the Berkeley Public Library Board of Trustees on August 1, 2007