Goal 1. Develop, implement, maintain, support, and promote the Rutgers Digital Repository.

Objectives:

• Share information and increase understanding of the repository within RUL, particularly with respect to aligning the repository as a tool for achieving RUL strategic objectives
  • Provide presentations, brown bags, forums, demonstrations and other venues for brainstorming the integration of the repository into RUL core workflow

• Develop, implement and document version 2 of the repository, including the ability to support collaborative collection building for selected faculty projects

• Develop and implement version 3 including tools, workflow, policy and procedures to enable faculty to participate in some independent collection creation using the repository, in fall 2006
  • NB: independent means that faculty can submit collections and metadata without RUL assistance, although approval processes (for the collection, for metadata) will be required for pre-admission

• Implement the electronic theses and dissertations portal and collection, in collaboration with the GSNB

Goal 2. Support effective and sustainable ongoing collection management

Objectives:

• Develop and implement workflow for the RUL serials inventory

• Move the archival audiovisual resources survey/inventory to SC collections, and migrate the collected data to the WMS

Goal 3. Improve and Expand the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Distributed Technical Services Functions

Objectives:

• Identify, document, and prioritize all technical services functions that are common across physical locations within RUL

• Develop and document procedures, benchmarks and measures for pre- and post-cataloging procedures in priority order (ongoing)

Goal 4. Improve the efficiency of the purchasing, cataloging and distribution of resources systemwide

Objectives:

• Document and benchmark turnaround time for each step in the acquisitions and cataloging process

• Develop, test and apply workflow for fully cataloged and processed books: approval book drop shipments to Camden; firm orders drop shipped to Camden, NBL approval books in-house

• Provide a FAQ that covers all aspects of the technical services workflow

Goal 5. Improve collection access, analysis and use

Objectives:

• Implement and promote the use of Director's Station for TAS statistics, particularly turnaround benchmarking, annual report statistics, etc.

• Complete the retrospective conversion of the Alexander Library collection and the LSM New Jersey documents collections; and develop a plan for retrospective conversion of the Annex collections

• In collaboration with Public Services, co-sponsor a working group to select, through an RFP, a metasearch application that can integrate with IRIS, OpenURL and ERMI; and that can support customization and extension to locally produced databases and resources such as the repository and Luna.

• Support, evaluate and publicize work by RUL faculty that advance new access strategies for catalog information,. In FY2006, develop metadata workflow using the WMS to support New Jersey Digital Highway and IJS materials.
• Integrate metadata tasks into relevant job descriptions within the Cataloging Department

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