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New Service Models
Update – Feb 2009
JoAnn Jacoby
Coordinator, New Service Model Programs
Library Faculty Meeting, February 4, 2009
Agenda
• Updates on specific teams & programs
• No library is an island (from the user’s
perspective)
New Timeline
• Process accelerated to inform response to
Provost’s letter
• Government Information Services Team &
International and Area Studies reports submitted by
early March
• Can then be posted and vetted in time to inform
response due in April
• PSED has outlined options, LSD intends to do the
same by the end of this month
Updates on specific
teams & programs
• LIS
• Implementation plan being finalized
• LIS, CAM and IPM staff working hard on transfers
to Oak St (from LIS & Stacks)
– 12,000 items to date; pace is quickening
• Office space for Sue & Sandy on 3rd flr & in GSLIS
• Enhancements to new book list via Voyager
(scoped by find, covers & ToC form Syndectic
Updates on specific
teams & programs
• Stacks Services
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Retrospective Reference
Circulation Desk Reconfiguration
Serials in the Stacks
Rare Books/Special Collections in the Stacks
Signage and Wayfinding
• Digital Content Lifecycle
• Inventory of core Library Technology Services,
matrix approach to allocating staff time
Updates on specific
teams & programs
• Scholarly Commons
• Fall 2009 launch
• Data Services & GIS, Scholarly Communications
(and others) as day-one services
• More details at April or May NSM session
• Tech Services
• Moving forward starting this spring
• More details coming up next!
Guiding Principles
• Deep engagement in research and
teaching communities
• Commitment to excellence in services
and collections
• Resilience
• Flexibility & depth of staffing to cover for vacant
faculty positions, for staff to take vacation and still
be open when students & faculty need us
• Interdependence
• There are no islands, we are in this together
Pink – Spanish, Italian & Portuguese, Associate Professor
Indigo - Physics, Professor
Green - Agricultural Science (ACES), Academic Professional
Light Blue - Cinema Studies, Assistant Professor
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Physics
(N=30)
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