Access to resources is central to learning and discovery. The Libraries will pursue its evolution into a digital library, providing seamless and stable access to digital resources and making its own unique resources available to scholars worldwide for research and learning. At the same time, the Libraries recognizes that it is responsible for building, preserving, and providing access to both analog and digital collections – not just for the current generation of scholars, but also for generations of scholars to come.
2007 Initiatives are shown in Bold Italics.
A. Develop, acquire or provide access to information resources that support the research and learning enterprise.
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1. Strengthen the Libraries’ liaison program to better communicate key issues to faculty and solicit current information about emerging program emphases and information needs.
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2. Establish and develop an ongoing program for digital library development and digitization of local resources, (including public domain materials from our collections) that pursues and takes advantage of collaboration opportunities.
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3. Conduct a UW-wide data inventory (2007), and determine local strategy for archiving datasets and databases (2008-10), and making them accessible on a long-term basis.
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4. Evaluate and acquire additional e-journal packages and back-files on a selective basis, and actively manage all such packages as needed.
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5. Develop and implement a general strategy for E-book acquisition.
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6. Actively pursue collaborative approaches to increasing and improving access to resources, including refinement of UW “3-campus” strategies and practices, and participation in other groups and organizations.
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B. Implement improvements that enhance and more fully integrate resource discovery, linking, and content delivery of our information resources
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1. Enhance resource discovery and reduce the steps the user has to take to identify and obtain information resources.
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2. Improve the integration of the various steps in the discovery to delivery chain.
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3. Implement MARC serial holdings as a way to improve linking from external discovery tools to available content, and to streamline our ILL fulfillment processes.
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4. Implement patron-direct ILL requesting and assess the costs and impacts of disintermediation.
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5. Assess the impact, costs, and scalability of the resource sharing purchase pilot.
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6. Make our archival finding aids (including ethnomusicology archive) more available to the scholarly community.
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C. Preserve information and artifacts for current and future generations of scholars
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1. Develop and implement an overall strategy and budget plan that addresses the preservation of resources in diverse formats, including electronic resources, print, microform and other materials.
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2. Facilitate development of the Digital Futures Alliance.
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3. Explore implementation of Preservation Program Advisory Committee report recommendations on preservation of audio and visual media.
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4. Develop environmentally sound spaces to house selected collections off-site.
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D. Provide effective and responsive organizational support for resource development and access
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1. Improve and expand training and support for selectors, including development of a “selectors’ portal.”
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2. Continue ERM implementation, with focus on staff training, conversion of license file and presentation of terms to users, and harvesting and management of usage data. Evaluate and make needed adjustments to e-resource workflows and staffing responsibilities
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3. Undertake external review of Digital Initiatives unit.
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4. Review how the resources budget is used to help ensure responsiveness to changing needs and priorities.
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5. Evaluate and consider changes from current “title by title” e-journal package funding method to fund group level approach.
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6. Evaluate new Information Resources Council structure.
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7. Review organizational needs for ongoing guidance on copyright issues.
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