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The Library Strategy Dr Paul Ayris Director of Library Services, UCL e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk

The Library Strategy Dr Paul Ayris Director of Library Services, UCL e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk. Contents. Why have a Strategy? The present Library Strategy Areas for future development Road Map for implementation of the Strategy. Why Strategy?. Institutions need a Strategy:

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The Library Strategy Dr Paul Ayris Director of Library Services, UCL e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk

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  1. The Library Strategy Dr Paul Ayris Director of Library Services, UCL e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk

  2. Contents • Why have a Strategy? • The present Library Strategy • Areas for future development • Road Map for implementation of the Strategy

  3. Why Strategy? • Institutions need a Strategy: • To provide a guide to inform their development • Into which all their activities should be grafted • To provide a document to inform their users what they are about • To provide a baseline against which to assess the institution’s performance

  4. Present Strategy • The present Library Strategy • Represents the first attempt by the Library to provide a comprehensive strategic overview of its activities • Available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/libstrat.shtml • In place since October 2001 • Designed for a 5-year period

  5. Evaluation • The present Library Strategy had an Action Plan of 6 development points: • Estate strategy • Storage for Special Collections • National activity in retrospective conversion • Digitisation of content • National funding for collection development • National funding to support external use of UCL Library Services

  6. Evaluation • Library Services has made significant progress in three of these six areas: • Estates Strategy • Special Collections • National funding to support external use of Library Services

  7. New Strategy • Builds on the former Library Strategy, but needs to: • Take account of a raft of new developments inside and outside UCL • Be articulated at a much finer level of granularity at Faculty and Department level • Stand alongside a raft of UCL strategies and policies

  8. Areas for development • Other UCL Strategies • Provost’s White Paper • Emerging International Strategy • Teaching and Learning and Research Strategies • Information Strategy • Academic Strategy • Estates Strategy • Widening Participation

  9. New developments • More support for Teaching and Learning • Online Reading List Module • Study Pack Service • Use of Virtual/Managed Learning Environments • Does TLSS need more support to deliver these goals?

  10. Support for research • Several factors here: • University of London Information Strategy • Retrospective conversion • Authority Control • Script-based cataloguing for non-Roman scripts • Innovation to support the dissemination of research outputs through the Library’s E-Print repository • E-Science/E-Research agendas

  11. Other new emphases • There are other emphases which need to be reflected: • Information Literacy • Fundraising, to support the Library’s targets in Advancing London's Global University - the Campaign for UCL • A renewed emphasis on estates with plans for the refurbishment of the library spaces in the Wilkins building; new buildings for SSEES and the Bartlett

  12. Archive? • A major question for the next 5 years • Do all UK research universities need to store back runs of paper journals? • Is collaborative storage the way forward? • Should UCL be ‘e-only’ for delivery of research materials in STM • Should UCL de-acquire scores of paper journal runs? • and • What is the Library’s responsibility for digital archiving of content? • Is this a collaborative activity? • Who will do it/how much will it cost?

  13. New areas • Widening Participation/Social Inclusion • New national partnerships, particularly with the emerging RLN (Research Libraries Network) • A need to define UCL’s relationship with the British Library to support research

  14. To support this • Support Structures within Library Services • A growing emphasis on Continuing Professional Development • Operational Planning at Library and Group level to deliver the Library Strategy’s Vision

  15. Road Map • Presentation at Current Awareness Session today • To be discussed at Library Committee on 11 November 2004 • Each Library Group discusses Strategy and presents report by Christmas 2004 • FIRST REVISION OF STRATEGY AVAILABLE JANUARY 2005 • Discussions in each Faculty Library Committee by Easter 2005 with report • Discussions with individual Champions in UCL by Easter 2005

  16. Road Map • Chair of Library Committee • Director of EISD • Head of the Graduate School • Sabbatical Officers in UCL Union • Revised Library Strategy by May 2005 • Ratified by Library Committee in June 2005

  17. And now… • Questions and, perhaps, some Answers

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