it and libraries, future directions pat burns, vp for it and interim dean of libraries csu 9/15/2009...
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IT and Libraries, Future DirectionsPat Burns, VP for IT and Interim Dean of LibrariesCSU
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How It All Started
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Theme•“I think of the University fundamentally as consisting of three things, the faculty, the students, and the Libraries.” – Oren Anderson, Chair Faculty Council Committee on Libraries, Academic Year 2008-2009
•Alex Stevens, “Timeless tips for you new CSU students,” Rocky Mountain Collegian, Section: Opinion, 8/27/09• “As much as you might not believe me, the library will
become your best friend. …I thought I could study in my dorm, then at my house and later in my apartment. Turns out, not so much.”• “… that shining beacon of scholarly salvation – Morgan
Library.”• “… It contains dozens of nooks to hide away in, private
group study rooms, laptops to be checked out, even decent coffee to be had. Every senior I know wishes they had discovered it sooner.”
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Past Planning Activities
•Libraries strategic planning, annually•Library 2020 Task Force•Charge by Provost Tony Frank in May
2008 to form a Library-IT Task Force
“Are we there yet?”
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Think!
Thinking “outside” the box.
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The Information Pyramid
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Data
Understanding
Knowledge
Information
Wisdom
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Library-IT Task Force
ChairVP for Grad. Affairs
DirectorInst. for Learning
& Teaching
Vice President forStudent Affairs
Interim DeanCSU Libraries
DeanLiberal Arts
DeanAppl. Human Sci.
ChairFac. Council Comm.
Strat. & Fin. Planning
ChairFaculty Council
Comm. on Libraries
Vice ChairFaculty Council
ASCSU Rep.
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Task Force Charge:•Evaluate the Library and Information
Technology organizations in order to determine the best model to meet both our current needs and those of the faculty and students to follow.
•Identify areas for synergies between the Library and central IT units.
•Discuss and recommend strategic directions related to options for Library collections and storage .
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Task Force Charge (cont’d)• Create new models for an information access
portal, including on-line and self-service capabilities for assistance with reference materials, enhanced global search, and discovery tools, etc.
• Explore the best models for the Library College Faculty to interact with colleges and academic units, support research and discovery, instruction and outreach.
• Evaluate and comment upon the Library’s strategy for renovating the Library into a Learning/Information Commons.
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BackgroundCSU Libraries
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CSU Libraries Vital Statistics• About $13m annual budget• ~110 non-student employees, incl. ~25 Library faculty
▫ > 200 part-time student employees• Collections: annual budget about $6.7M
▫ ~2.2 million monographs, ~25k purchased per year▫ Subscribe to 214 databases▫ Subscribe to ~30k journal titles▫ For ~60 academic departments
• Morgan Library @ 300,000 GSF, 2,570 ‘seats’ (11% )▫ 1.3 million visits per year▫ ‘Studying’ visits up ~17% over the past 10 years
• CSU Libraries ranks 103rd of 113 ARL Libraries
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This represents 90% of all book check outs.Remainder = ILL.
Holdings = 2.148 M
Holdings = 1.898 M
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CSU Inter-Library Loan
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Association of Research LibrariesHow about research/academic libraries in general?
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Buying power/avail information
Weighted Library Buying Power: 1980-2010
CurrentEvaluation at CSU
Brian L. Hawkins, “The Unsustainability of the Traditional library and the Threat to Higher education,” from Brian L. Hawkins and Patricia Battin (eds.), The Mirage of Continuity, Reconfiguring Academic Libraries for the 21st Century, Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, D.C., pp. 129-153 (1998).
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21st Century Library: Access
Internet
Users
On-Line:
-Databases-Books
-Journals
Collections
GroupStudy
MySpace
Wikipedia
Inter-Library Loan
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Findings & RecommendationsFrom the Library-IT Task Force
Submitted to the Provost
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Recommendations 1: Sustainability• Finding: The CSU Libraries are fundamental
to the management of information, conducting research, and enhancing education and outreach. As such, it is critical that the Libraries adopt new measures focusing on enhancing sustainability, particularly:▫ Align Libraries budget with total budget of the
institution, encompassing research and scholarly activities (tap into ICR).
▫ Pursue shared collections, particularly with the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.
▫ Pursue strategies for withdrawing appropriate materials, informed by trend analyses of usage and evolving user behavior.
▫ Evolve toward a more patron-driven model for purchase of materials.
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Recommendations 2: Digital• CSU Libraries should embark aggressively upon digital
initiatives, to ‘leap frog’ emerging trends, including:▫ Significantly expand the Libraries’ attention on digital
collections, including realigning staffing, especially the Digital Repository.
▫ Facilitate support of digital collections and management of information broadly, by integrating the systems and middleware groups from ACNS under CSU Libraries.
▫ Pursue electronic books, in all aspects, including licensing, patron-driven purchases, and printing on demand.
▫ Pursue strategies to provide easier, more use friendly user access to the multitude of disparate materials available through CSU Libraries.
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Demand for Research Data Curation
Now 2 Years 5 Years0
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Research Data Storage Need (TBytes)
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Current capacity = 3 TBytes
24% response rate from NSF researchers!
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Recommendation 3: Info. Commons
• Support for the transformation of the Library into an Information/Learning Commons:▫Pursue funding for the program plan to
effect a transformation that has just been completed.
▫A necessary condition is to establish additional storage space for books that should continue to be kept and preserved, and relocated from the first floor of Morgan to Lake Street.
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THE PLAN: new entrance and addition, external
• A holistic environmental scan evaluating Morgan Library by ZONES:• APPROACH • LAUNCH • INTERACT • CONNECT• COLLECT• STUDY
University Libraries
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THE PLAN: Information Commons, 1st floor
• This zone will make finding books and resources enjoyable and easy.
- clarity of organization - places for browsing - stewardship (care) of collection is inherent
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THE PLAN: Information Commons, 1ST floor• New books • Current awareness • Reference •IT help desk
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THE PLAN: Add more group study areas
•More than 35% of faculty assign group work – Morgan Library has only 18 group study rooms, and only 7 have adequate equipment
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THE PLAN: 1st floor lounge (art, media+, Wii, +…)
• Entry w/media wall• Lobby• Academic lounge• Café• Gallery space/electronic art
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Recommendation 4: Scholarship•Engage more in outreach to and
academic support for the University, particularly in collaboration with TILT:▫Create an IT Fluency program for the
campus▫Create Open Access models▫Endorse e-Publishing
eUniversity Press?
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Recommendation 5: Workflow
•The Task Force endorses the R2 report:▫Prefer eBooks▫‘Lightweight’ processing▫Accept minor errors and inaccuracies▫Continue to ‘weed’ appropriately▫Move to patron-driven purchases▫Move to a statewide Alliance purchase
plan, statewide collections▫And, much more…..
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Questions and Comments Welcome
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