Saturday, October 20, 2001

Session VIII: Highlights of the Breakout Discussion Groups

Session 2: Action Ideas

 

Detailed notes from the breakout groups are transcribed in a separate document.
The highlights are the points reported back from the groups in a plenary session.

Local Action Items

ARL or Other Collaborative Action Ideas

Ideas for Renaming Scholars Portal

Local Action Items

• Reallocate staff and $ to national efforts/outsource common tasks
• Position library locally to collaborate globally
• Determine how much expertise is needed
• Show how local efforts relate to bigger picture
• Consider what to stop doing
• Recognize and reward staff in a systematic way to advance change
• Reallocate staff and resources to priority activities
• Connect with campus groups
• Recognize opportunities
• Challenge models
• Develop an agile organization
• Produce and expose metadata
• Decide on deliverables
• Assist/promote use/user studies
• Foster awareness of user needs
• Develop staff skills
• Adopt and apply standards
• Market the library
• Address governance issues as the library loses autonomy
• Expand high-quality content that is accessible to users
• Solve delivery issues for content not on the Web (including direct borrowing)
• Vision: articulate vision and define deliverables
• Reprioritize funding at local and national level
• Temporarily suspend digital projects
• Reassign responsibilities re licensing and authentication
• Develop a project with OAI metadata harvesting protocol
• Extend awareness of OAI metadata harvesting protocol on campus
• Articulate shared vision and clarify nomenclature
• Describe and spread awareness of current collaborative activities
• Marketing to library users
• Work with faculty on this new learning environment

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ARL or Other Collaborative Action Ideas

• Help directors justify what library is doing and be supportive
• More symposia like this one
• Be a venue for collaboration
• Articulate a shared vision
• Collaborate with vendors
• Track developments/do market research/technology scans
• Track and synthesize results of research on information-seeking behavior and user needs
• Evaluate clusters of tyranny (OPAC, classification schemes, the need for portals)
• Learn more about users
• Connect with societies, publishers, etc.
• Promote collaborative research
• Work on nomenclature
• Articulate needs to commercial vendors
• Facilitate communication with faculty
• Rethink organization to address these issues
• In-depth user studies
• Intellectual property issues
• Catalyst for delivery and access to remote resources
• Vision: articulate vision and define deliverables
• Reprioritize funding at local and national level
• Temporarily suspend digital projects
• Reassign responsibilities re licensing and authentication
• Talk with vendors (ILS) re library needs
• Define and promote enabling tools
• Come together and share
• Experiment and be prepared to fail
• Identify and reach out to other partners

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Ideas for Renaming Scholars Portal

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