Enriching the environment for learning and student success.

Ambler*

The Ambler Campus Library will continue to keep learning and student success foremost in our daily activities, and will look for new ways to enhance that experience.

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*

● We plan to work with major prospects and donors in the effort to reach the Libraries’ FY ’20 fundraising goal (TBD), set by the Office of Institutional Advancement.

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

● 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.

● Seek new funds to support innovation in the Charles library, including a technologically rich environment and highly flexible spaces, collaboration, and interdisciplinary learning

Health Sciences Libraries*

• Assess systematic review services, identify successes & challenges, develop a plan for future growth/sustainability
• HSL/STEB librarians will work on faculty education and marketing for the new TUL Institutional Repository.
• HSL/STEB librarians will select & complete an assessment project - needs assessment, research consultation satisfaction survey, or other project (in consultation with the Associate Director for Organizational Strategy & Strategic Alignment)
• Podiatry library staff will partner with faculty and student groups to offer elective educational opportunities to the TUSPM community.
• Working with the UL User Experience Librarian, gather feedback regarding usability of new health sciences libraries website
• Working with LTS staff, review public-facing computing - Ginsburg: desktop workstations (both PC & Mac), flat panel screens, laptop lending program, computer classroom installation - Podiatry: desktop workstations (both PC & Mac), computer lab, iPad lending program
• Report Ginsburg Library 10 Year Review findings and recommendations to the library leadership team; prioritize projects

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 the 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 discovery of library and archival resources as well as TU-related entities by continuing to provide metadata expertise to the Library Search, Website, and TACOCAT projects, particularly in the implementation of virtual browsing features and underlying infrastructure supporting name and subject authority data.
• Increase accuracy of metadata descriptions in Alma by participating in a one-year pilot with a vendor to update the quality of our database on a quarterly basis.

Library & Technology Development - Project Coordination*

Provide consistent and dependable technology to support for the instructional activities of librarians in the on-site classrooms and consultation rooms.

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*

We will develop a new marketing campaign to support LRS staff outreach.

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 course pack 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)