Enriching the environment for learning and student success.

Ambler

To think broadly about the library and its place in the academic life of the student, we will stretch our own perceptions of the library as place, and draw our strengths to support the learning and academic success of students while at the Ambler Campus 

Blockson

Continue to provide reference services, research assistance and instruction. 

Work with faculty to identify Blockson holdings relevant to their courses. 

Collaborate with faculty to integrate Blockson holdings into their coursework. 

External Affairs & Advancement

Work with major prospects and donors in the effort to reach the Libraries’ FY ’19 fundraising goal (TBD), set by the Office of Institutional Advancement.

Collaborate with SCRC and the Blockson Collection to acquire new in-kind gifts.

Health Sciences Libraries

Complete 10-year review process of Ginsburg Library. 

Learning & Research Services - Business, Social Sciences and Education

Each librarian will update their Libguides to comply with our Libguides Accessibility and Usability standards

Weed the social science portion of rhe print Reference Collection and standing orders in preparation for the move to Charles library

Library & Technology Development - Developers

Website Development - continue development to new library CMS

Further Blacklight development - continue planned enhancement and maintenance releases of Blacklight catalog

Solr Cloud / Better replication - research deployment options for Solr

Upgrade application architecture - continue enhancement of procedures to facilitate more streamlined availability, proxying, and routing

Library & Technology Development - Digital Scholarship Center

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.

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.

Library & Technology Development - MADS

Improve accessibility of TU digital content by implementing CONTENTdm responsive interface.

Improve discovery of TU resources by working with a vendor to enhance metadata for our entire Alma bibliographic database, including addition of data as well as cleanup of legacy data to improve faceted discovery as well as search and browse capabilities.

Continue to make new information resources available to our users through ongoing cataloging and digitization efforts, including exposing hidden collections and unique materials.

Improve discovery of library and archival resources as well as TU-related entities by continuing to provide metadata expertise to the Library’s Blacklight Search and Website Redesign projects.

Library & Technology Development - Project Coordination

Implement a one-button studio system at HSL

Print station system upgrades

Laptop Loan Kiosks - continue pilot of laptops anytime, and plan scaled up deployment for Charles, and other areas across campus

Student worker hiring/ management - continue hiring, training, and supervision of student employees

Website Design - continue development to new library CMS

Website Entity Descriptions/Data creation/control - continue migration to new CMS data model

Library search enhancement releases (including browse) - continue planned enhancement and maintenance releases of Blacklight catalog

Organizational Research & Strategy Alignment

Embed user experience research methods and findings into development of services at libraries, to include web site, discovery systems and physical spaces.

Outreach & Communication

As part of this year's Beyond the Page theme, we are working with campus partners such as Cherry Pantry and the Institute on Disabilities to think about the ways the Libraries can contribute to student success and be a friendlier and more accessible place. 

We will develop a new marketing campaign to support LRS staff outreach, to be launched in the new building.

Press

Revamp student intern program for acquisitions interns, revising job description, expanding duties, and working with university internship program and departmental intern coordinators. (Press)

Continue outreach to faculty regarding affordable coursepack program. 

Research Data Services

Promote and support datasets generated by or used in the research process and datasets used for pedagogical purposes by assessing discoverability of datasets in Library Search. (RDS SST; SC SST; LTS)

Facilitate services across the entire data life cycle, including user education, support for grant requirements and data publication. We will develop one new educational program for the HSL Data Education Series in collaboration with other campus entities.

Facilitate services across the entire data life cycle, including user education, support for grant requirements and data publication.  We will develop one new educational program on main campus during Open Access week in the fall and one new program during Love Data Week or Endangered Data Week in the spring.

Scholarly Communication

Plan and coordinate workshops/outreach focused around relevant local, regional, and/or national scholarly communication events, including, but not limited to, Open Access Week, Open Education Week, and Fair Use Week; assess the impact of these events. 

Special Collections Research Center

Manage increasing faculty instruction requests against limited access in the spring semester. (SCRC)