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Future Directions

Future Directions. The Unique Library. This direction is about celebrating and strengthening the unique aspects of our collections our services our professional culture. “of which there is only one” “having no like or equal”

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Future Directions

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  1. Future Directions The Unique Library

  2. This direction is about celebrating and strengthening the unique aspects of • ourcollections • ourservices • our professional culture.

  3. “of which there is only one” • “having no like or equal” • “standing alone in comparison with others, by reason of superior excellence” • “unequalled, unparalleled, unrivaled” • (OED) unique

  4. Centre for Newfoundland Studies • Archives collection in QEII • Rare Book collections • Special collections (i.e., Peattie; Halpert; etc.) • Founders’ Archive in HSL Our Collections:

  5. Make students more aware of the research potential open to them in the various special collections; • Develop unique content & collections; • Special collections with a particular emphasis on material related to the history and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador; Our Collections:

  6. An increase in the Special Collections acquisitions budget; • Create a Friends of the Archives program that will promote the establishment of an endowment fund for archival acquisition, access, digitization and special collections; • Seek additional funding for creating and promoting the development of Phase II of The Inuit Through Moravian Eyes website. Our collections:

  7. Collection Development • Cataloguing • Accessibility • Reference • Reproduction • Preservation • Conservation • Outreach Our Services:

  8. Seek additional funding to allow increased access to archival holdings; • Keeping the momentum for digital projects going (financial resources, staffing, motivation); • Engage in conversations with other archival units on campus to develop means for the integration or sharing of facilities, expertise and long-range planning; Our Services:

  9. Work with faculty who teach courses in Newfoundland and Labrador studies to promote the integration of archival and manuscript holdings in their courses where appropriate; • Support for Labrador Institute, Harlow, Bonne Bay, Offshore Safety, & other satellite organizations; Our Services:

  10. Create a searchable electronic database linking archival holdings to university courses; • Make additional resources and tools (textual materials, photographs, finding aids) available and searchable in an electronic environment; • Improved access to Special Collections; Our Services:

  11. Promote the Archives and Special Collections Division as a fun and interesting place for students (and all researchers) to learn, to grow, to become; • Continue enhancing the role of digitization of special collections. Our Services:

  12. Professional (or organizational) culture has been defined as "the specific collection of values and norms that are shared by people and groups in an organization and that control the way they interact with each other and with stakeholders outside the organization.” • (Charles W. L. Hill, and Gareth R. Jones, (2001) Strategic Management. Houghton Mifflin.) Our Professional Culture:

  13. Emphasize our unique skills (specialized expertise that is not present elsewhere at the University); • Progress on infrastructure to support the unit: closed stacks with environmental controls and waterless fire suppression, and the construction of a reading room; Our Professional Culture:

  14. Ensure that the division is staffed at a level that meets the developing needs of an increasing and broad-based research community (students, faculty, staff, external researchers from within the province, within Canada and international); • New staff support position for the Special Collections Librarian. Our Professional Culture:

  15. Direction IV stresses the importance of celebrating and strengthening the unique aspects of our collections. While I would not in the least dispute that this is a useful and worthwhile way to direct our energies, I think something similar can be said for some of our non-unique collections such as those we have acquired through our consortial participation. I think that students are not generally aware of some of these - EEBO and ECCO, for example - as possible research resources and I suspect they are less used than they could be if we promoted them more and offered tuition on how to use them. (Cf. the last sentence of Direction III.)

  16. “Where are we and wither tending?” (Abraham Lincoln, 1858)

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