The group met 2-3 times this reporting period.
After reviewing the current PLA Strategic Plan, please tell us:
Describe the current work of this committee and how it supports our strategic goals. Include work accomplished, decisions made, and any recommended follow-up actions.
The PLA Annual Conference Program Subcommittee worked together using the strategic goals of professional growth, advocacy for our field of public libraries, and selecting programs that we think support our goals in librarianship and hopefully transform and help us grow further.
Do you see opportunities to better align committee work with those goals?
I think that the current strategic goals were easy to use in our selection process.
What recommendations do you have for in-coming committee members? Are there particular streams of
work in progress to be carried over into the new committee year? (January–June reporting period only)
NA
What specific activities will this committee undertake over the next six months to support that alignment? (July–December reporting period only)
Are there other PLA or ALA committees whose partnership and collaboration would accelerate meeting PLA strategic goals?
Unless there are new initiatives like the 150th anniversary, I do not think there is at this time.
Is there anything else about your committee experience you’d like to share?
I think the training that this committee received was a great guide to help us be effective and efficient with our time. Our top choices very quickly floated to the top of our final scoring. I think that with the clarification about merging proposals (if presenters were open would need to change how the committee meets and can consider this situation.
Submitted by Melissa Hozik on 01/15/2026