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Members of the Vision Task Force
Welcome to our visioning blog. Please share your ideas about how you envision library services evolving in preparation for our move into the new building.
Charge
The Vision Task Force has been charged by Dean Peter McDonald to address all aspects of services, technology and partnerships for the new Library building that is scheduled to be completed in 2008. Our work will be based on Dean McDonald's Vision 2008: An Introduction for HML Staff and Fresno State's Strategic Plan for Excellence III: 2006-2011. The commitee is to suggest ideas, vision and initiatives that relate to four themes: User Services, Physical and Virtual Space, Information Technology, and Outreach, Communication and Staff Development.
We cannot accomplish our task, however, without the input of you! Please respond to the questions related to our themes that are posted on our blog with your best ideas so that we can bring foreword the most innovative suggestions possible!
Members
- Lucia Vega (student rep.)
- Aaron Collier
- Monica Fusich (chair)
- Glenda Harada
- Michelle Johnson (student rep.)
- Ida M. Jones (ex-officio)
- Ross T. LaBaugh
- Tammy Lau
- Susan Mangini (ex-officio)
- Julie Moore
- Christine Tarvin
- Donna Taylor
Labels
- communication and staff development (3)
- other (1)
- outreach (3)
- physical and virtual space (5)
- user services (3)
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8 comments:
I wonder what statistics would tell us about "Why" student come to the library. What percent come in only to print or photocopy? How many to get a book? How many to study?
Scanner services for students (using their print card to pay for it, of course)
Is it possible to have more work stations which would include electrical outlets for personal laptops? Thanks!
Why charge the students to use the scanner? They can just email the document to themselves.
Referring back to the first comment, I hope we can give students new reasons to visit the Library: new technology to which they may not have access elsewhere; an understanding and appreciation of search engines beyond Google; an inviting environment in which to study, both alone and in groups; a cultural center in which to see and display materials from the wide range of cultures in the Valley.
What I would like to see most in the new library is a GREAT catalog (says the cataloger!) We just got Millennium (our new online catalog), and we will shortly be getting Encore which fits over Millennium and has a lot of very cool bells and whistles ... book jacket visuals, summaries, book reviews, the tagging cloud, etc. All this is very jazzy and snazzy and I think will attract our users. However, we MUST remember that this is all built upon the foundation ... the MARC21 records using AACR2. These records need to be created in a precise and prescribed manner in order to maintain the quality of the foundation of the entire catalog. Without that quality foundation, it will fall. We do need to remember to protect the core cataloging at the foundation. Systems come and go. Overlays such as Encore come and go. Catalogers come and go. But the MARC records are what remain and what get migrated from one generation of system to another.
I would like to see our Cataloging Section being built into a leader ... one that others in CA could look to as a model. I would like to see our library involved with the PCC (Program for Cooperative Cataloging) programs, such as a member of NACO (Name Authority Cooperative Cataloging). I would like to see Fresno State get Enhance status with OCLC. Those programs not only make a difference locally, but they help the greater library community. That is my vision for the HML Cataloging Section.
I just had an interesting experience teaching Communication 166. I was talking with a student and he was using YouTube to browse reggae music. He listened to music, then an interview about the influence of reggae and then used keywords from the talk to search Project Muse. I think this reinforces that we need to approach information searching form the user's perspective.
Is any thought being given to an area of the library with 24 hour access?
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