Materials withdrawal, for the first time in our history, and by necessity, will become a more "future-oriented" activity. Withdrawal is being planned based on serials collection growth.
Noise in the Davis Centre Library and the washrooms continues to be a major student complaint. The changes made in 1994/95 have had little effect.
Plans for renovations in the Dana Porter Library are being considered to:
Financial Modelling for 1995/96
Each year strategic plans are developed for staffing, services, capital equipment, and renovations and throughout the year these plans are monitored to take advantage of opportunities. In 1994/95 the Library was able to meet a 1.9% budget reduction by releasing a number of positions that had been held open in anticipation of the reduction.
In recognition of the importance of all aspects of strategic planning, the Library has appointed a full-time Coordinator of Management Information Systems. He is developing a program for definition, objectives, collection, analysis, and distribution of a library management information system. He has constructed a preliminary model for organizing the data on the library network, and has begun to experiment with exchanging and maintaining data. In recognition of the importance of working closely with the Office of Institutional Analysis, contacts have been established.
The User Needs Survey is being analyzed by the Library Performance Measures Group.
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