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Library

Strategic Plan RecommendationsGroup 6

Vision:

“We aspire to become the leading academic library on Nearby Island, providing world-class support for and collaboration in teaching, learning, and research.”

1. Shift Collection Emphasis• From print to electronic• Enhance usage through user / staff education and promotion

- appoint Marketing Librarian• Work with IT / Learning Support unit to embed e-resources into CMS• New digital collection – recordings of scholarly talks

Assessment:• E-resource usage statistics

Future priorities:• Invest in a discovery platform to further enhance e-resource usage• Set up institutional repository

2. Preservation• Invest in preservation of rare books• Focus on digitization (and possible monetization)• Restructuring – retrain technical processing staff• Collaborate with humanities faculty – exhibitions / publications

Assessment:• Number of items digitized per annum• Usage of special collections• Number and quality of faculty collaborations

Future priorities:• Collaborative digitization project for all of Nearby Island

3. Regional Collaboration• Lead efforts to develop CLUNC• More coordinated and consistent approach to consortia purchasing • Interlibrary loan – books and articles• Collaboration on reference and instruction

Assessment:• Money saved through consortia purchases• Interlibrary loan usage statistics• Usage of collaborative reference services

Future priorities:• Further expansion of collaboration – Cataloguing?• International collaboration

4. Library research fellows• Post-docs shared with academic departments• Focus mainly on research projects aimed at enhancing teaching and

learning• Fellows may also be assigned to support other strategic plan

recommendations according to their expertise

Assessment:• Research output: papers / citations / conference presentations

Future priorities:• Expand the programme

A brief summary of our planning process…

Ensure we all have a shared understanding of the assignment (15 mins)

Brainstorm ideas (60 mins)

Collate, refine, and organize suggestions (25 mins)

Select ideas for the final plan (25 mins)

Vision statement (20 mins)

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Thanks for listening!