Strategic Directions

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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

• Strategic Directions
• for
• Research
• 2009-2014
• Colleen Cook
• Dean
• Texas AM University Libraries

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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ROLE

• To provide resources and services that facilitate
  the research efforts of faculty
• To provide publishing and documentation support
  which ensures that Texas AM research results are
  disseminated and archived for the benefit of the
  scholarly community and society at large

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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES PRIORITIES

• Evolving libraries from institutions anchored in
  physical collections and spaces
• Managing information in digital formats and
  providing services to an increasingly virtual
  audience
• Collaboration/consolidation
• Digital space
• Open access

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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES RESEARCH DIRECTIONS-DIGITAL
LIBRARIES

• Development of digital collections, including
  building and maintenance of digital repositories
  preservation of digital collections facilitating
  intellectual access to digital objects
  management of datasets.
• Licensing and access issues for digital
  resources, including rights management, access
  maintenance and control, integration of
  electronic resources with other formats of
  information.
• Supporting the faculty with digital
  infrastructure for new forms of scholarly
  communication.

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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES RESEARCH DIRECTIONS-DIGITAL
LIBRARIES
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES DIGITAL LIBRARIES
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES RESEARCH DIRECTIONS-SERVICE
ASSESSMENT

• Global assessment of library services
• Texas AM University
• LibQUAL
• Developing effective models for marketing library
  services
• Electronic licensing
• Developing effective virtual reference services
  to support library users outside the library
  building
• Interlibrary loan, document delivery
• Identifying and tailoring services to specific
  sectors of the user base
• Systematic reviews

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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES RESEARCH DIRECTIONS-LibQUAL

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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES RESEARCH DIRECTIONS-LibQUAL

• 1,176 Participating institutions worldwide
• 17 Language translations
• 1,050,432 Library user responses
• Implemented in over 23 countries

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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES COLLECTIONS OF DISTINCTION
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES COLLECTIONS OF DISTINCTION
Collections of Distinction Veterinary
Parasitology Entomology Colonial
Mexico Revolutionary Mexico African American
Experience in Texas Science Fiction Research
Collection Cervantes John Donne Walt
Whitman French History Literature Printing
Arts Selected modern political papers including
Senator Phil Gramm Papers
5 YRS
2004
12 YRS
Three Millionth Volume
1992
Two Millionth Volume
16 YRS
100 YRS
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES COLLECTIONS OF DISTINCTION

• Home to one of the largest
• Don Quixote collections in the
• world
• Nearly 20,000 scanned digital images
• of the collection
• Four Millionth Volume, 2008
• Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha,
• parts I and II. Barcelona, 1617.
• 1617 Edition represents the first complete
• edition of the Quixote
• Extremely rare, no other
• American university owns
• a complete copy

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UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES CONTACT INFORMATION
Dr. C. Colleen Cook Dean Sterling C. Evans
Endowed Chair Texas AM University
Libraries 5000 TAMU College Station, TX
77843-5000 Telephone [phone] Fax
979-845-6238 Email ccook_at_tamu.edu