Team 7 Cathy, Qu, Sin-yee, Xiao, Yang, Peony Building a New Library.

Team 7Cathy, Qu, Sin-yee, Xiao, Y

ang, Peony

Building a New Library

Mission Statement

Support teaching, learning and research of the university community

Facilitate knowledge exchange in scholarly community

Goals

Provide the best service

Adopt the most advanced technology

Build the best collection

Provide the most effective staff development program

Provide the most flexible space usage

SWOT Analysis--Strengths

Hard-working and energetic staff

New library building

80% of print collection intact

Budget increase in the next 10 years

Well regarded by students

SWOT Analysis--Weaknesses

Short of library staff 1 million volumes of print collection

need attention – mold problem Lack of study space Have no change for a long time—no

experience for change and may not be ready for changes psychologically

Lack of e-resources

SWOT Analysis--Opportunities Hire new staff to provide new services Build a green earthquake resisted library Potential demand from Sidney Poly Adopt new technologies, including cloud co

mputing Build a new collection with more emphasis

on e-resources by taking advantage of UNESCO special offer

Work with young professors

SWOT Analysis--Threats Existing staff may resist changes Lack of resources sharing opportunity and

partners Short of experienced librarians and two of

the experienced librarians are retiring soon

Half of the existing librarians are not service-oriented

The 1-million volume print collection may be in danger

Services to be offered Information literacy training E-resources training Build a virtual library Implement RFID to enable self check-out

and tracking of space usage Electronic 24/7 reference Outsource cataloging Use WorldCat Local

Services to Stop or Reduce

Reduce manual check out

No ILS – use Cloud Computing Service

Reduce IT staff and infrastructure maintenance work

Reduce desk reference hours

Measurement Number of Self Check out Usage data of e-resources Bi-annual user survey on satisfaction Enrollment and attendance of training

courses Test students’ ability to find information

for their research needs before and after the training courses

Investigate space utilization by RFID

New Staff

Professional Staff

Director + Administration + Management

Circulation

Reference + Instruction + Collection development

Learning commons

Outreach + Marketing

Webmaster

E-resources

Acquisitions + Serials

Cataloging + Metadata

Total

1

4

1

1

1

1

1

10

1

51

31

9

5

25

Thank you!