Strategic Plan | CSUSM University Library

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Summary:

"ONGOING ACTIVITIES

While this plan articulates strategic directions that will be emphasized in the next five years, the University Library at CSUSM is committed to sustained excellence in the ongoing, day-to-day activities that are essential to the teaching, learning, and research activities of the university community. These include:

  • Partnering with faculty to create, provide, and assess learning experiences and environments.
  • Teaching students and assisting users in various settings.
  • Cultivating and managing curricularly-driven collections.
  • Providing guidance on scholarly communication, copyright, and open access.
  • Acquiring and making discoverable information resources in all formats.
  • Ensuring access to Library resources and services.
  • Managing and supporting the Library’s human and financial resources.
  • Managing the Library’s technology infrastructure.
  • Maintaining clean, secure, and inviting physical spaces.
  • Collecting, reporting, and interpreting Library data.

[...]

Strategic Direction 2: Information resources provided by the Library on behalf of the campus community will facilitate innovative, student-centered teaching and learning.

Goals

  1. Ensure sufficient resources are available to create accessible, curricularly-driven collections for existing and new degrees/programs. (Planning begins 2015-16; convener: Collection Committee)
  2. Assess the media collection to ensure it is curricularly relevant and accessible. (Planning begins 2015-16; convener: Collection Committee)
  3. Investigate and implement technologies in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of collection management with a particular focus on electronic resource management. (Planning begins 2015-16; convener: Library Systems)
  4. Promote and support open access scholarly communication in partnership with faculty. (Planning begins 2015-16; convener: Scholarly Communication Task Force)
  5. Pursue and implement strategies that support the Cougars Affordable Learning Materials (CALM) initiative in order to reduce the cost of instructional materials to students. (Planning begins 2015-16; convener: Scholarly Communication Task Force)
  6. Create a systematic collection management cycle that follows a regular timeline, which will include collection evaluation, management of budget allocation, and deselection processes. (Planning begins 2016-17; convener: Collection Committee)"

Link:

https://biblio.csusm.edu/strategic-plan

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Date tagged:

03/30/2017, 15:49

Date published:

03/30/2017, 11:50