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The libraries will connect with a broad set of partners and collaborators at Temple and beyond to amplify their capacity for innovation, invention, and the exploration of emerging opportunities, both in technological domains (gaming, data visualization, data management, digital scholarship, health informatics etc.) and in areas where new revenue opportunities may be involved (publishing, foundation support, corporate partnerships, donor support, joint training and certification programs, etc.).
Goals Related to This Strategic Action
*Indicates new goal for FY19-20.
Acquisitions and Collection Development
Make substantive progress on plans for TUL's involvement in shared print cooperatives.
Ambler*
- As we work with our current partners in providing research and popular support for events, activities and scholarly pursuits, we would like to add some new and exciting opportunities from the library. Of course, defining and bringing those opportunities here, with the Learning Center here at Ambler fulfilling some of the activities sponsored at the library at main campus, makes it difficult to be in the forefront, but we are willing partners in any effort we can infiltrate!
Blockson
- Continue work partners such as PEW, Temple Community Relations, IMLS and Alston Beech Foundation.
- Identify other funding sources and community partners.
External Relations and Advancement*
● Strategies for raising endowment funds for the new building will include face-to-face meetings with key donors and prospects and utilizing the new library case statement to showcase the building via its renderings, and a schedule of naming opportunities to support it.
● Promote the work of and seek support for the Libraries through various printed and online communication vehicles, including the annual report, bi-annual newsletters, donor/prospect correspondence, and websites.
Health Sciences Libraries*
- Ginsburg Library - Open and market presentation practice studio, develop mechanisms for assessment
Learning and Research Services - STEB
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
Aggregator Rewrite - Instantiate rewrite of the DPLA/PA-Digital Aggregation system
Further Blacklight development - Continue planned enhancement and maintenance releases of Blacklight catalog
Library & Technology Development - Project Coordination
Institutional Repository - continue implementation of Institutional Repository, and configure data workflows for ETD’s, faculty self-ingested binaries (S.Elements), and Library staff administered ingest (data sets)
Open Journal Platform upgrade - Upgrade and migrate to OJS3
TUpress website enhancement releases - continue enhancements to new TUPress website
Faculty Profile Builder - continue new school onboarding, configuration, and harvest processes in S.Elements.
Library & Technology Development - Metadata and Digitization Services
Increase our capacity to onboard new contributors and new digital collections to the DPLA by working with Library Technology Development to rewrite our PA Digital aggregator software to make it more flexible and user-friendly.
Improve exposure and discovery of TU Press publications by participating in the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication program and creating original descriptions for these resources.
Increase availability of digital cultural heritage objects in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by continuing to onboard new digital collections and new contributors to the DPLA, and by increasing outreach efforts with a new Outreach and Curatorial team in the PA Digital project.
With Penn Libraries, explore Work with PA Digital partners to explore the possibility of a state portal for discovery and exploration of Pennsylvania digital collections. Explore a partnership in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania between libraries and state data producers to inventory and develop capacity for long term stewardship of public data (Future Proofing Civic Data Phase II).
Outreach & Communication
*We are working with new local artists and academics for this year's Beyond the Page series and will continue developing these partnerships for next year.
Press
Launch an OwlCrowd campaign in support of publication of ""Salut! France Meets Philadelphia"" and use this to determine steps toward more formal Press fundraising.
Research Data Services
Develop and maintain a comprehensive awareness of existing data needs and services around campus by conducting an environmental scan of campus for data services.
Develop and maintain a comprehensive awareness of existing data needs and services around campus by maintaining a list of people and/or positions in charge of handling these services outside of the libraries.
Oversee the implementation of its recommendations by working collaboratively with partners in the Libraries and across campus and will identify potential collaborators for each action item.
Special Collections Research Center
PACSCL projects