2003/04 Libraries Goals and Responsibility

1. Strengthen the Library's Overall Effectiveness Using the Excellence in Higher Education model

• Continue the development of the quality indicators - Cabinet
• Identify and review external studies for data relevant to the quality indicators - Assessment Committee

2. Build a Strategic Plan for the Next Five Years - Cabinet

• Update the DLI focusing on university aspirations for a research university
• Enhance collaboration with UMDNJ
• Monitor devolution
• Design a budget request process reflecting the university's all-funds approach

3. Develop a Sustainable Information Technology Infrastructure - AUL for Digital Library Systems and AUL for Collection Development & Management

• Acquire a digital storage system
• Develop a plan for metadata sustainability
• Develop policies/practices for digital collection and project development

4. Enhance User Services and Support - AUL for Public Services & Communications

• Review services to undergraduates within the context of a research university
• Initiate university and campus partnerships and establish a strategy for integrating services and collections into e-learning
• Implement web content management system
• Develop an online information literacy tutorial
• Further information literacy strategy by determining additional deliverables

5. Strengthen Collection Development and Enhance Access to Collections - AUL for Public Services & Communications, AUL for Collection Development & Management, and AUL for Digital Library Systems

• Implement Open-URL
• Complete review of databases platforms and configurations
• Expand PALCI resource sharing
• Develop and update existing research guides
• Review and update collection development principles and policies to reflect changing environment
• Develop a five-year preservation plan
• Expand recon activities

6. Continue to Engage Faculty in Issues of Scholarly Communication - SCC Committee & AUL for Digital Library Systems

• Construct a repository infrastructure
• Develop an open access journal
• Promote self-archiving

7. Continue to Invest in Human Resources - Training & Learning Coordinator

• Focus on programs that meet technical and soft skills needs

8. Improve Communications

• Conduct audit of the Libraries' communications program with the university community - AUL for Public Services and Communications
• Strengthen liaison relationships with academic units - AUL for Collection Development & Management and Library Directors

9. Increase External Support

• Target specific areas for enhanced external funding, including D21 and the unfinished floor of Dana Library - Director of Development
• Escalate grants writing - Cabinet