The Library stewards an invaluable, diverse and growing collection and an iconic building, and has a duty of care to its people and the public. The Library faces a range of potential risks, including loss of collection materials, an inability to manage long-term preservation of cultural assets, threats to reputation, failure to maintain accessible services and a failure of resilience and security in information technology systems.
Capability The Library’s approach to its strategic priorities relies on robust principles. The Library strives to ensure that every operation needed to deliver its aspirations is well considered and of high quality, especially regarding leadership, strategy and planning, people, information and knowledge, processes, governance, and product and service delivery.
Capability The Library’s approach to its strategic priorities relies on robust principles. The Library strives to ensure that every operation needed to deliver its aspirations is well considered and of high quality, especially regarding leadership, strategy and planning, people, information and knowledge, processes, governance, and product and service delivery.
Corporate Plan 2015-2019: Capability and risk management
Capability
The Library’s approach to its strategic priorities relies on robust principles. The Library strives to ensure that every operation needed to deliver its aspirations is well considered and of high quality, especially regarding leadership, strategy and planning, people, information and knowledge, processes, governance, and product and service delivery.
The Library will benchmark the most significant elements of its operations against reliable comparators to establish baseline data. Priorities will be identified and resources allocated to areas of need to achieve organisational excellence.
Building the Library’s workforce capability will continue to be a corporate focus. A Strategic Workforce Plan for 2015–2019 will set out the Library’s approach to investing in staff. Leveraging the work of the previous strategic workforce plan, the Library will further develop digital competency and confidence, together wi
Corporate Plan 2017-18: Risk oversight and management
The Library stewards an invaluable, diverse and growing collection and an iconic building, and has a duty of care to its people and the public. The Library faces a range of potential risks, including loss of collection materials, an inability to manage long-term preservation of cultural assets, threats to reputation, failure to maintain accessible services and a failure of resilience and security in information technology systems.
The Library’s risk profile is directly linked to the achievement of corporate priorities. The Library has a very low tolerance for risks to the security and preservation of the collection, and the safety and security of Library patrons and staff, with a marginally higher risk tolerance regarding the provision of uninterrupted online services and reputation.