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Strategic Directions
- Capitalize on departmental ability to manage digital projects from start to finish and facilitate distribution of similar work in other library and campus departments
- Deploy departmental resources to quickly develop and maintain high quality digital collections
- Provide coordination, support, and training to empower others to develop digital content focusing on their collections
- Enhance support for end-user services related to digital collections
- Expand the scope of the catalog to include broader representation of diverse resources available to users and improve discovery of the "library long tail"
- Utilize vendor-supplied metadata and services
- Focus on cataloging unique items, authority work and database maintenance
- Expand the catalog to include new types of metadata for underrepresented resources (such as geospatial data and finding aids for archival materials)
- Augment the number and variety of links between the catalog and other digital resources
- Identify emerging trends in the profession and help lead the library in defining roles and developing skills
- Lead efforts in data extraction, repurposing, organization, management, and delivery
- Collaborate with Instructional Services and Systems in transitioning to next generation interfaces to library resources
- Expand and build on departmental role in scholarly communication
- Help develop and disseminate knowledge, skills, and experience in these emerging roles
- Restructure positions to better meet emerging needs of the library and broader UO community
- Ensure that each staff member in MSDP has the skill set to work effectively in at least two of the department's core service areas
- Redefine positions to build in this broader expertise
- Focus specialized faculty positions to better address current and future needs of their target audience (such as finding aids for music and Slavic digital collections)
- Make more effective use of student employees in order to maximize staff resources
Prepared by Mary Grenci and Lori Robare with the assistance of Kate Ball, Cathy Flynn-Purvis, Corey Harper, Lesli Larson and Carol Lenocker
Maintained by: MSDP Webmaster, msdpweb@uoregon.eduLast Modified: 04/26/2007