Learning
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Action |
Timeframe |
Coordinating Depts. |
|---|---|---|
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Provide more options for completing the information literacy graduation requirement, including options with greater curricular integration. |
Fall 2018 - Spring 2020 |
Teaching and Information Services |
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Implement curricular planning in collaboration with faculty and degree programs to understand how students typically move through a major and perform on information literacy related assignments. |
Summer 2019 - Spring 2020 |
Teaching and Information Services |
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Improve communication with advising to get students to complete IL requirement earlier in their coursework. |
Fall 2018 - Fall 2019 |
Teaching and Information Services |
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Improve professional development of all faculty teaching the information literacy course, especially adjunct faculty. |
Spring 2019 - Spring 2020 |
Teaching and Information Services |
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Develop a shared repository of teaching materials for LIBS 1704. |
Spring 2019 - Fall 2019 |
Teaching and Information Services |
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Review and develop new assessment methods, including qualitative assessment. |
Summer 2019-Fall 2020 |
Teaching and Information Services |
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Develop a peer learning program that will provide personalized research assistance to students in the library, online and First Year Experience, ENGL 1010 and 2010, and other key courses. |
Spring 2019 - Spring 2020 |
Teaching and Information Services |
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Expand instructional offerings related to primary source materials, including collaborations with the History Department. |
Spring 2019-Spring 2021 |
University Archives Special Collections |
Access
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Action |
Timeframe |
Coordinating Depts. |
|---|---|---|
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Explore feasibility for a circulating textbook library for all general education courses. |
Spring 2019 - Spring 2020 |
Course Reserves |
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Establish an Open Educational Resources (OER) program to help faculty locate, adapt, and create OERs and other affordable course materials. |
Fall 2018 - Spring 2020 |
Administration Teaching and Information Services Course Reserves Collections |
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Increase student employment opportunities in the Library across all departments. |
Fall 2018 - Fall 2019 |
All departments |
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Expand equipment lending program and explore the possibility of checking out some equipment to distance learners. |
Spring 2019 - Ongoing |
Circulation Course Reserves |
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Partner with Student Affairs/Student Labs to synchronize student/public computers with university student computing labs. |
Spring 2019 - Fall 2019 |
Systems |
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Partner with colleges and campus IT to develop an entry-level makerspace and audio/video editing capabilities in the Library. |
Spring 2019 - Spring 2020 |
Systems Library Faculty Administration |
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Process and preserve fragile and deteriorating materials in Special Collections and University Archives |
Spring 2019-2024 |
University Archives and Digital Collections Special Collections |
Community
|
Action |
Timeframe |
Coordinating Depts. |
|---|---|---|
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Develop a comprehensive and coordinated library programming strategy and schedule, with specific attention to increasing the representation of marginalized populations in library programs. |
Fall 2019 - Fall 2019 |
Marketing Committee |
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Establish an Open Educational Resources (OER) program to help faculty locate, adapt, and create OERs and other affordable course materials. |
Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 |
University Archives and Digital Collections Special Collections Collections |
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Collaborate with WSU campus partners, especially the programs in the Office of Diversity and Access, to improve library engagement with under-represented groups. |
Fall 2019 |
Administration |
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Create a downtown Ogden presence through lectures, exhibits, and community partnerships, especially relating to local history and Special Collections. |
Fall 2019 - Spring 2024 |
Special Collections |
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Recruit and retain a more diverse library staff, including student workers. |
Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 |
Administration Library Council |
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Establish a formal structure to promote diversity and inclusive excellence, including the development of a diversity, inclusion, and equity training program for all library employees. |
Spring 2019 - Fall 2019 |
Administration Library Council |
Organizational Excellence
|
Action |
Timeframe |
Coordinating Depts. |
|---|---|---|
|
Review all course material for ADA compliance |
Spring 2019 - Summer 2019 |
Teaching and Information Services |
|
Develop a storage plan for Special Collections and University Archives. |
Spring 2019 - Summer 2019 |
Special Collections University Archives |
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Establish workflow for Special Collections from the intake of collections through processing. |
Summer 2019-Fall 2019 |
Special Collections |
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Conduct usability testing of the library website and other user experience analysis of the Library’s physical spaces and services. |
Spring 2019-Spring 2020 |
Web Advisory Group Systems Administration |
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Develop a staffing model that addresses new directions for the library, student employment, professional opportunity and advancement, and salary equity. |
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 |
Administration |
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Improve workflows, functionality and expertise related library software systems. |
Spring 2019 - Fall 2020 |
Systems |
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Migrate to a new Integrated Library System (ILS). |
Fall 2019 - Summer 2020 |
Systems |
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Centralize virtual server management of library managed production systems. |
Spring 2019 - Summer 2020 |
Systems |
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Perform bibliographic backfile update, improve MARC record maintenance and updating. |
Summer 2019 |
Technical Services |
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Establish an improved system for managing the complete life-cycle of electronic resources. |
Fall 2018 - Summer 2019 |
Technical Services Collections |
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Improve discoverability and use of current periodicals. |
Fall 2018 [completed] |
Technical Services Collections |
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Improve donor relations, re-establish Friends of the Library, and increase donations to the Library. |
Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 |
Administration |