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Systemwide Strategic Directions for Libraries and Scholarly Information at the University of California
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Libraries, Systemwide |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | SUMMARY Great universities have great libraries. In fact, great universities achieve their standing in part due to their libraries because information resources are at the core of effective research, teaching, and learning. To enable the University of California to continue to excel in its instructional, research, and service missions, the University libraries strive to: • Enhance access to well organized, professionally managed, comprehensive collections of the scholarly information needed to realize the goals of the University's academic programs. • Improve the availability of timely, expert, relevant, and personalized services needed by faculty and students to make effective use of these vast and complex information resources. • Ensure persistent access to the high-quality digital materials that result from research and teaching at UC. In achieving this vision, the University libraries must confront a number of challenges, including: • Diminishing budgets, including the effects of budgetary austerity on the library collections, the value of which lies in part in the continued accumulation and preservation of information resources. • Proliferation in the amount of scholarly information and the number of formats in which it is produced, and continuing hyper-inflationary increases in its cost. • Lack of any unifying technology that would facilitate the easy capture, organization, presentation, use, preservation, and long-term management of the growing digital component of scholarly information. • Much higher expectations among users about the speed and ease with which such information (and associated user support services) should be discovered, located, accessed, and used. • Rapid change in information technology, and the accompanying need to adopt and adapt new technology to serve the information needs of UC's faculty and students. • The increasing financial and operational interdependence of the campus libraries in providing services to each other and supporting shared systemwide collections and services, and the resulting effects of independent campus budgetary and operational decisions on the quality of systemwide library service. The strategies set forth here to successfully confront these challenges continue the 25-year history of progressively growing cooperation and collaboration among the UC libraries to share collections, leverage technology, and pool financial resources. The current strategic directions for collaborative development of the UC libraries lie in five key areas: • Expanding the development and management of shared collections (Sections 4.1 and 4.4) • Utilizing shared facilities to a greater extent (Section 4.2) • Extending shared services (Section 4.3) • Ensuring persistent access to digital information that results from … |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/groups/files/about/docs/library_strategy.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/sharedprint/docs/SystemwideStrategicDirectionsForLibraries_April2004.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt2321523v/qt2321523v.pdf?t=p2yw7g |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
