Jim Dickinson

This strategic plan for Anoka County Library outlines its direction and goals for 2024-2028, focusing on four key priorities: Access, Connection, Literacy, and Experience. The plan aims to communicate its goals and measure success, ultimately striving to connect the community to ideas, information, and inspiration, and fostering a county where knowledge, creativity, and opportunity thrive.

The strategic plan for Anoka County Library outlines its direction and goals for the next five years, focusing on four key priorities: Access, Connection, Literacy, and Experience. The plan aims to make library resources and spaces easily accessible, strengthen connections with patrons and communities, cultivate a love of learning and support reading, digital, and information literacy skills, and provide consistent, high-quality services and experiences. The overarching vision is to foster a county where knowledge, creativity, and opportunity thrive by connecting the community to ideas, information, and inspiration.

The 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan for Anoka County focuses on housing, homelessness, community, and economic development needs. Key objectives include supporting the construction and acquisition of affordable housing, preserving and improving existing housing, promoting equal housing opportunities, eliminating slum and blight, upgrading public facilities and infrastructure, and supporting economic development to create new jobs for lower-income persons. The plan also emphasizes evaluating and supporting facilities and services for the homeless and those at risk of homelessness.