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Call for Volunteers for Collections Access Analysis Hub

by lener, posted on August 31, 2012

Call for Volunteers

Collection Access Analysis Strategies Hub, or: CAASH!

Should you volunteer? The answer is YES if you can answer yes to these questions: Do you have a strong interest in collections access and analysis?  Would you like to help brainstorm and provide input for developing strategies to provide timely access, anywhere, anytime—on a budget? Would you like to participate in brainstorming discussions to determine the type of analysis necessary to make this a reality?  Are you inclined to work across traditional boundaries and ideas, while also thinking systemically about how our goals fit in with our institution’s mission?

Please click on the link and fill out our Google form to volunteer by September 10, 2012.

•  Six volunteers will be chosen.
• First meeting October 1, 2012, 10:30 am – 11:00 am,  in the boardroom

Goal for the Hub

Our broad goal is predefined in the VT Libraries Strategic Directions, 2012-2018. Stated goal of collection access: Provide timely discovery and transmission of all information resources anytime, anywhere.

More specifically, this group will work together to identify more detailed strategies to make this broader goal a reality.

In terms of collections assessment/analysis, we’ll first define our mission. Questions to consider: Who and what are we attempting to support through providing collections access? What can we do to ensure we are providing the most needed/used resources for the best possible costs?  How do we go about assessing collections access?  We’ll aim to develop more specifics: What do we want to learn from our analysis? What data is necessary to collect?  Who needs to be involved?  How might roles change to meet goals? How do we identify in-demand resources to which we currently do not provide timely access, anywhere, anytime? How do we make such resources available?

HUB Members will want to be well acquainted with these articles:

2012 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Trends and Issues affecting Academic Libraries.  C & RL News June 2012: 311-320. http://crln.acrl.org/content/73/6/311.full

ARL Strategic Plan 2010-2012

Strategic Direction: Transforming Research Libraries: Outcomes & Strategies

http://www.arl.org/arl/governance/strat-plan/trl.shtml

A Plan For A New Horizon: Envisioning Virginia Tech, 2012-2018 Strategic Plan.

http://www.president.vt.edu/strategic-plan/strategic-plan.html

Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services. University Leadership Council.  2011.  http://www.educationadvisoryboard.com/pdf/23634-EAB-Redefining-the-Academic-Library.pdf