The library will provide quality information resources to support users’ teaching, learning, research, and service.
Goals |
Status |
Resources Needed |
Challenges |
SAF Connection |
Maintain: |
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Quality collections to support academic programs. |
Operational: Assess, maintain, improve. |
Campus funding that grows with programs and populations. |
Inflationary pricing. Encouraging stakeholders to think about information resources in non-traditional ways. |
All |
Responsive, convenient discovery and access to information resources. |
Operational: Assess, maintain, improve. |
Collaboration with computer scientists, instructional technologists, and industry. |
Complexity of scholarly information. Reliance on vendor systems. |
TBD |
Create: |
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Partnerships with faculty to build collections supporting new and growing programs |
Operational: Assess, maintain, improve. |
Campus funding that grows with programs and populations. |
Inflationary pricing. Encouraging faculty stakeholders to think about information resources in non-traditional ways. |
TBD |
Capacity and formal agreements to enable sharing of special collections. |
Strategic aim. |
Political will and support: UC system and beyond. |
Intractable attitudes about library collections and sharing of information. Protective ownership vs. access. |
TBD |
A local, retrospective collection to address academic program needs. |
Implementation contingent on collection funding. |
One Career Staff (LP 4). Sustained campus funding. |
Acquiring funding from campus. Identifying core titles. Obtaining some older works. Balancing print format with digital availability. |
All |
Sustainable models for open-access scholarly publishing in collaboration with UC Libraries. |
Implement by 2017. |
Funding and administrative support for open access publication. |
Obtaining funding. Publisher-driving legislation. Changing faculty attitudes about publication and metrics for promotion & tenure. Few incentives for faculty for less traditional forms of publication. |
TBD
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