Goals and Objectives 2004-2005
March 15, 2004
OBJECTIVES AND GOALS/RESPONSES
Provide 5 star, user-centered service that directs all staff activity toward delivering resources and services to patrons when and where they are needed, at the appropriate intellectual level and in the format desired.
LONG TERM GOAL:
- Improve
access to electronic, digital, and print information:
Responses/Short
Term Goals (* specific goals for next year):
·
Evaluate online book vendors (such as NetLibrary, 24x7) for
potential ordering of individual (rather than batch-ordered) e-book titles
as needed
·
Transfer print subscriptions to online ones where possible and
advisable.
·
*Work with the Digital Library to encourage digitization of
brittle public domain materials
· *Create and compile additional guides to the library’s collections (as handouts and as web pages)
· Plan specialized bibliographic/thesis-dissertation seminars for upper level and graduate classes
· Offer individual consultations with students and faculty and vigorously market this service
· *Initiate pilot projects with select academic departments to provide space/web access in the academic department facilities (departmental conference room, for example) for subject specialists to confer with grad students on a regular basis
· Develop a systematic method for identifying journals that offer direct online access to institutional subscribers and for determining if this access is available to the patron via the public catalog.
· *Re-examine the programmatic emphases, enrollments, and upcoming changes in each academic department and adjust materials budgets accordingly
· *Monitor usage statistics from database vendors and e-book vendors, and circulation figures to aid in making selection and deselection decisions.
· Work with Development Officer to enhance resources for purchase of materials
LONG TERM GOAL:
- Improve
efficiency in selection, ordering and acquiring materials to get books
and other
resources to the users in a more timely manner:
Responses/Short
Term Goals (* specific goals for next year):
·
*Implement
the new Library Management Service, Aleph, and train staff as needed in
ordering procedures, fund analysis, interpretation of technical screens, and
online searching
·
*Determine
ways the data in Aleph and usage statistics can be compiled for collection
analysis; use this data to help
make purchasing decisions that meet user needs
·
*After
our success with this year’s pilot project using Yankee’s GOBI 2 for
selection, all selectors will select Yankee firm orders by using online GOBI
2. Selectors will also
“pre-select” Yankee approval books online;
both categories can then be received “shelf-ready.”
Online selection will apply to other vendors when their
databases/procedures meet our needs
Provide
greater outreach services, promote public awareness of the Library, give
library staff a greater presence on campus
1.
Increase staff participation within the library and throughout the
University
Responses/Short Term Goals (* specific goals for next year):
· Place more CM Dept staff on library and university committees
· *Create opportunities for and encourage CM staff to initiate demonstration/training/updating sessions on online databases for library staff as well as faculty and students
· *Work with Library Personnel to reinstate seminar/bag lunch series and invite faculty and grad students to participate as guest speakers to discuss their on-going research
· *Selectors will be encouraged to arrange to spend time each week in the academic departments for consultations with students and faculty
LONG TERM GOAL:
2. Actively promote library services, accomplishments and benefits to the UF community using effective communication techniques and innovative marketing strategies.
Responses/Short Term Goals (* specific goals for next year):
· *Revise/expand/reformat the CM Department Web pages using Dreamweaver for consistency, updating text, providing links to departmental/library policies, and adding more subject pages, including pathfinders for specific kinds of questions/needs frequently encountered
· Work with Resource Services to monitor the use of these online subject guides/pathfinders
· Offer library orientations for graduate students at the beginning of each semester
· *Create a brochure for the CM Department Subject Specialists similar to ones developed for ILL and the Gifts & Exchange Program to explain the functions of the unit. Additional brochures for specific subject areas may also be needed, such as “Slavic Studies”
· *Update selection policy statements and link to subject Web pages
· *Promote greater emphasis on communicating with/mentoring Grad Students (initiate/continue orientations, offer assistance when they begin research for a thesis or dissertation, invite them as guest lecturers for library staff seminars/brown bag luncheons)
· *Make greater efforts to email faculty and grad students once or twice a semester to detail new library products and online services, especially Aleph, and update them on changes. Selectors adapt this memo to their specific needs and email directly to their faculty/grad students
· *As part of a library-wide analysis, evaluate all reference services currently provided and initiate new ways to interact with/reach patrons (such as “in-department” consultation times)
· *Collaborate with academic departments to link Library and selector Web pages to their Web pages
· *Compile and disseminate monthly lists of noteworthy new acquisitions in the various academic fields we serve.
OBJECTIVE:
Implement
activities to manage and review the collections to maintain active
collections of frequently used print materials and classic texts, and store
lesser-used materials, while also developing viable e-book and e-journals
collections as well as collections in other formats:
LONG TERM GOAL:
1. Evaluate and
implement plans for West materials as to the need for reclassification of
Dewey items (and return to Library West), transfer, storage, replacement,
deselection of unneeded items or, in the case of brittle books,
reformatting.
Responses/Short Term Goals (* specific goals for next year):
· *Having accomplished this task for the Dewey Biographies, Sci hssl materials, and Paged 900s, this analysis can now be broadened to include Dewey Periodicals and other Dewey materials
· *Streamline procedures for evaluation of materials in LAD and ALF, and actively weed the storage collections.
· Work with Preservation and the Digital Library to determine most appropriate reformatting/replacement needs (microform, digitization, or print)
LONG TERM GOAL:
2. Evaluate currently owned/subscriptions to online databases for retention, replacement, or cancellation, and determine if online version of periodical titles should supplement or replace a current subscription to the printed copy
Responses/Short Term Goals (* specific goals for next year):
·
*Review
print serial subscriptions for cancellation and/or migration to online
access where appropriate
·
*Periodically
evaluate databases owned/subscribed to, according to criteria such as
need/usage, overlap with other databases, etc.
· *Evaluate additional e-book databases available for potential purchase/subscription. Add e-books individually rather than in batch.
· *Determine if there is an online equivalent to print subscriptions.
· *Add at least the core journals in emerging disciplines that heretofore have not had serial funds, including women’s studies, African-American studies, and history of science.