1. WorldCat Local [WCL] (Jo-Ann, Walter, Alison, and EPIC)
2. Electronic Resources Management [ERM] (Chris and Walter)
- Adding resource records
- Linking records
- Adding serials holdings information
- Identifying permissions for collections at the individual resource level
3.
Information Literacy Program [IL] (Lori)
- Work with high enrollment departments, such as English and Economics, to determine at what points in the curriculum information literacy instruction is desirable.
- Assess information literacy instruction in departments with a strong tradition of instruction in a particular course (e.g. Psychology and Biology) to ensure that their needs are being met.
- Develop strategies for departments and programs that have high instruction numbers, but a "scattershot" approach (no articulated course or course level in the curriculum where information literacy instruction should occur).
- Increase contact with non-participating departments and programs to increase instruction opportunities for their students.
4.
Examine the Allocation of Staffing to Match Needs with Current Positions (Dave)
5. Digital Resources (ERG and others)
- Continue to work with the Internet Archive on getting uniform information files for the WR. Orphan files need to be resolved. (Chris)
- Take the Internet Archives files and work with OIT so that the WR can be brought into Content DM as a resource search able across various issues. (Sylvia)
- Explore digital options for the VHS collection, including but not limited to streaming and Netflix
- Consult with Jeff Jones and OIT soon to determine legal ramifications of streaming/digitizing our collections.
- Review/claim digital content that is specified for individual use (i.e. digital content that comes with videos, we have rights to claim one copy through publisher with password code through an individual. We would like to have additional claims that would go through the library and not just an individual having access.
- Explore text-based EBook offerings and select one to implement this year
- Work with consortia partners to determine if a joint effort is the best way to leverage our funds
- Review services that stream audio of academic texts such as Overdrive and determine whether to add this type of resource
6. Promote the Libraries (Christine)
- Promote recently added or low-use databases focusing on reason why users should care
- Promote reference librarians as guides to information world
- Promote assessment / evaluation of resources as our special skill
- Position ourselves as counterpart to Google (respond to next campus-wide Google ads on campus)
- Organize faculty workshop series on resources and services
- Be present where faculty are: faculty meetings, committees, open forums
7. Staff
Development (Staff Development Committee)
- Bring in recommended consultant to work with librarians and supervisors (Christine)
- Have members of the initial group extend the training to all members of the staff
- Arrange for members of the staff and individuals from campus to conduct presentations and workshops
- Continue to update the clearing house of local and regional training opportunities on the library wiki
8. Sustainability (Walter, Jo-Ann, Helena)
9. Diversity
10.
Library Building Project
- Continue to resolve retrofit issues associated with use of Southworth apartments 1-3
- Complete the effort to gain additional space in Southworth to increase special collections storage capacity
- Continue the process of increasing coordination of Chapin and Archives activities
- Continue to migrate Sawyer journals (30% complete) and to assist Access Services with related projects in Sawyer Library
- Newly received government documents will go directly to LSF
- Begin to add print government documents to the move stream from Sawyer into the LSF. Beginning in July will be the split of cataloged and non-cataloged docs. First all cataloged items will be moved to LSF. Rebecca will determine what non-cataloged docs will need to be cataloged and moved to LSF.
- LBC will participate in any cost cutting exercise should the updated pricing exercise reveal a project cost in excess of the project budget
- Review the 100% construction documents to determine whether late changes were incorporated in the drawings
11. New Technologies (Walter and TAG)
12. Metadata Standards (Karen)
- Abstracts going online and publicly available
- Metadata produced by part-time position
- Identify faculty working on digital projects and discuss the benefits of metadata standards
- Specifically contact faculty and staff participating in the 2009 round of WIT projects to discuss Metadata
13. Marcive (Chris,Laura and Rebecca)
14. Weed Collections
- Documents CDs in the summer of 2009
- Identify possible new homes for documents microfiche by December 2009
- Deaccession selected cataloged documents
- Complete weeding VHS items that duplicate owned DVDs
- Evaluate whether to replace non-duplicated VHS with DVDs
15. Records Management and Scholarly Communication (Sylvia)
- Work with OIT and the President's Office to archive President Schapiro's e-mail and other records
- Work with Ed Epping on capturing the history of the Claiming Williams initiative through the archiving of their web site
- Develop ways to store and make accessible campus documents and information in the absence of an Institutional Repository [IR]
- Join with promotion initiative to gain faculty support
- Reach out over multiple platforms
- Explore with OIT additional ways to utilize ContentDM as the current de facto IR
From Retreat 6/19/09