The library will provide quality information resources to support users’ teaching, learning, research, and service.
Goals | Status | Resources Needed | Challenges | SAF Connection |
Maintain: | ||||
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: | ||||
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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