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The libraries will support a diverse environment for the exploration of new modes of scholarship, engaging all fields of academic endeavor as a multi-disciplinary contact zone and intellectual workshop, connecting students, clinicians and scholars with collections, tools, librarians, and technical experts.


FY 17-18 Goals Related to This Strategic Action



Access & Media Services

Development and fine tuning of document delivery and home delivery of items to Distance Learners.

Acquisitions & Collection Development

Fully integrate HSL materials invoice payment and budget tracking into Alma.

Continue to provide input into the e-resource delivery aspects of the next phases of the Library Search implementation.

Finalize planning and complete the transition away from the Elsevier and Taylor & Francis journal "big deal" packages.

Finalize the new collection development policy.

Explore options for increasing the proportion of materials being provided via approval plans, and un-mediated or mediated DDA programs.

Make substantive progress on plans for TUL's involvement in shared print cooperatives.

Blockson

Provide more accessibility to collections through finding aids, digitization and continued work on collection inventory.

Continue to support students, faculty and community through one on one research consultations.

Provide research assistance to high school students participating in National History Day.

Continue original and complex copy cataloging of resources as well as to continue to create original bibliographic records.

Health Sciences Libraries

Continue engagement of Podiatry librarians with faculty and students to establish deeper integration into the curriculum.

Create a series of graduate student workshops focusing on skills for scholarship.

Create best practice and guidelines document for the creation of LibGuides for the health professional schools.

Develop data services program under the leadership of the new Research and Data Services Librarian.

Learning & Research Services -

BSSE

Business, Social Sciences & Education

Each librarian will develop competency in supporting citation management and teaching about citation managers

Learning & Research Services - Science, Technology, Engineering & Biomedicine

Each librarian will select one competency from the Scholarly Communication Competencies

Each librarian will select one competency from the Educational Competencies and work with the Education Services Librarian

In collaboration librarians will develop a Graduate Student Workshop series to be presented at Paley, Ginsburg and Podiatry

As the Faculty Profile Builder moves to new colleges liaisons for those colleges will work with with the Research Information Management/SE team and college administration

Library & Technology Development - Developers

OJS Upgrade - Upgrade and migrate to OJS3

Library & Technology Development - Digital Scholarship Center

Sci-fi corpus - Continue to develop a corpus of Science Fiction to be studied in a variety of means via Natural Language Processing. Explore ways to deploy the corpus to be used by external scholars.

Faculty Fellows - We are continuing on to the third year of this program and are working with 3 faculty members instead of our usual 2.

Makerspace grant projects - After a successful first year of this program we are continuing to work with CAT by accepting another 8 faculty projects for this year.

Encyclopedia project - We received $90,000 in funding from NEH to continue this project, have hired several undergraduate workers and continue what we have started on the project.

Hastac scholars - We are beginning what should be the final year of this program. We are currently accepting our fall batch of applicants before taking on this group, which will be replaced with the Cultural Analytics Graduate Certificate Program.

Develop Cultural Analytics Degree Program - The bulk of the preliminary work on this project has been completed and we are currently waiting for it to work its way through the grad school.

Host Digital Humanities Workshops

Library & Technology Development - Developers

OJS Upgrade - Upgrade and migrate to OJS3

Outreach & Communication

Our Beyond the Page theme for the year is "Access & Opportunity." We hope to attract new audiences to the Libraries, promote our special collections, and develop new partnerships.

This year we will also develop our series of programs for the new building.

Toward both of these ends, a Public Programming Working Group was formed in July. The group will help develop programs, create and develop partnerships within the Libraries (connecting different campuses, for instance) at Temple and beyond, and assess our current programming offerings.

Developers

OJS Upgrade - Upgrade and migrate to OJS3

Press

Expand North Broad Press outreach in support of university-related publishing and open access and create policies and procedures.

Publish one Open Access textbook.

Research Data Services

Develop and maintain a comprehensive awareness of existing data needs and services around campus by Interviewing researchers about their data practices, needs and challenges.

Promote and support datasets generated by or used in the research process and datasets used for pedagogical purposes by creating a competitive grant program to purchase research datasets.

Promote and support datasets generated by or used in the research process and datasets used for pedagogical purposes. We will work to improve discovery of datasets by establishing an Institutional Repository for data dissemination and preservation. (RDS SST; SC SST; LTS)

Promote and support datasets generated by or used in the research process and datasets used for pedagogical purposes by working to improve discovery of datasets. We will assess the discoverability of datasets in Library Search. (RDS SST; SC SST; LTS)

Promote and support datasets generated by or used in the research process and datasets used for pedagogical purposes by creating a system to identify data purchases with Collection Development staff. (RDS SST; Collections SST)

Facilitate services across the entire data life cycle, including user education, support for grant requirements and data publication. We will develop a plan to promote our services.

Facilitate services across the entire data life cycle, including user education, support for grant requirements and data publication. We will develop our web presence, including our Research Data Services page, Datasets and Data Repositories guide and Data Management guide.

Facilitate services across the entire data life cycle, including user education, support for grant requirements and data publication. We will develop a model for consultation and reference services.

Participate in cross institutional collaborative projects including PACSCL CLIR INHOR and PACSCL CLIR BiblioPhilly.

Continue building CRNC by adding new modules created by School of Education CFI students."

Each librarian will develop competency in supporting citation management and teaching about citation managers

Special Collections Research Center

Participate in cross institutional collaborative projects including PACSCL CLIR INHOR and PACSCL CLIR BiblioPhilly.

Continue building CRNC by adding new modules created by School of Education CFI students.