In the coming year, we will continue to weigh the cost of services and activities against the benefits they provide as we decide which services and activities to add, continue, and discontinue. In an effort to use limited staff resources effectively, our priorities will include doing things more quickly, easily, and efficiently and eliminating services and activities that are redundant or marginal. As always, our top priority will be to extend and improve the service that students, faculty members, and staff at the University of Waterloo expect and deserve from their library.
The Library will continue to focus on efficient and effective means of delivering information to our users. Expanding the number and scope of electronic resources available to the campus community will be a priority, as will providing appropriate bibliographic access to these resources. We will continue to provide staff and users with training required to make full use of our growing digital library.
One important initiative we plan to focus on in the coming year is the TUG Electronic Thesis Project. The goal of this project, which is currently in the prototype phase, is to develop procedures that will allow students to submit theses electronically and to develop a database that will allow electronic access to theses.
After reviewing our resource development plans for their effect on the Library's priorities, we plan to identify and initiate additional partnerships and collaborative efforts across campus, in the community, and with other academic libraries. Given the success of our involvement in the TriUniversity Group of Libraries, expanding consortia efforts with our TUG partners and with the Ontario Council of University Libraries will be one of our top priorities.
As part of our ongoing effort to provide excellent service when and where it's needed, library staff regularly reach out to the campus community. In addition to offering a total of 204 user education sessions in the Library, our staff collaborated with departments across campus to promote the Library and educate users.
| REACHING OUT: SELECTED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS BY LIBRARY STAFF Anne Fullerton Are Undergraduates in Science and Engineering Getting (Enough) BI? Mark Haslett Christine Jewell Amos Lakos Sharon Lamont (editor) William Oldfield Richard Pinnell Murray Shepherd Carol Stephenson Linda Teather (co-presenter with Mark Haslett) |
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