One recommendation to meeting this requirement is to start with a general mission or vision statement. Several ideas for a school's mission statement are included in Appendix 2. Examples of specific school goals and implementing strategies are provided in Appendix 3. Although the ideas and examples shown in these two appendices are school-related, most should be easily adapted for library plans. The plan must have a professional development strategy to ensure that staff know how to use these new technologies to improve education or library services.
Staff development is an important portion of the technology plan.
See also the specific strategy examples shown for Goal 3 in Appendix 3. The plan must include an assessment of the telecommunication services, hardware, software, and other services that will be needed to improve education or library services. A sample Technology Inventory Form that might be used for this assessment, and included in the technology plan, is provided in Appendix 4. The plan must provide for a sufficient budget to acquire and maintain the hardware, software, professional development, and other services that will be needed to implement the strategy. At a minimum, projected expenditures for each year of the technology plan should be shown, broken down by major expense categories.