grow @ your library

Library Staff UpdateWednesday, April 16, 2008DC Conference Room

Grow @ Your Library

Spring

Growing...As a theme and a purpose

• Accomplishments• Current projects• Future directions

Library Video Contest

3rd place video

Accomplishments

• Campaign Waterloo – raised close to $7 M

Accomplishments• Constructed the RBC

Information Commons and the new look of the Davis main floor

• Created the Sims Silent Study area in Davis and added new study carrels and chairs

Accomplishments• Provided new public

and staff workstations in all locations

• Renovated the 3rd floor of Porter including replacing all study carrels and creating the Betty Sims Reading Room

Accomplishments

• Created the Musagetes Library

Accomplishments

• Installed an RFID and Collection Management System in both Davis and Porter

And we took some time to celebrate

Accomplishments

• Equipped the Adaptive Technology Centre with new furnishings and equipment

• Enhanced accessibility by retrofitting the Porter public elevators and beginning to replace range end signs

• Installed glass display cabinets in the entrance to Special Collections

Accomplishments

• Kresge Challenge – received the largest grant ever awarded to a Canadian Library

Your accomplishments…

• Have allowed us to grow• And provide campus-wide benefits• For years to come• Despite it being a period of ongoing annual

cuts

2nd place video

Dana Porter Main Floor Renovations

1st place video

What’s ahead...

• UW Financial Situation• Staffing• Acquisitions Budget• Sixth Decade Plans

Financial situation

• Operating budget– Annual cuts– One-time only (OTO) supplements

• Acquisitions budget– OTO– Base budget

• Fund raising– Growing differently

Budget cuts

• 2001/02: 3.5%• 2002/03: 2%• 2003/04: 2%• 2004/05: 2%• 2005/06: 1%• 2006/07: 1.5%• 2007/08: 2%• 2008/09: 2%• 2009/10: 3 – 3.5%???

OTO supplements

• “Matching” dollars– 3M RFID initiative– IBM workstations & servers– Porter renovation health & safety requirements

• Leveraging our dollars through partnerships

New appointments

• 2005-2006– Jennifer Haas, Alison Hitchens, Tim Ireland, Maria Reinhard

• 2006-2007– Allan Bell, Zsuzsanna Lancsak, Stef Voichita, Liz Wehner

• 2007-2008– Nancy Collins, Linda Finn, Leeanne Romane, Jonathan

Sutherland, Carolyn Vincent– Debbie Loney (Apr 21), Kathy MacDonald (May 5)– Sunanda Brouwer, Gladys Torres, Christine Reilly, Yi-Mei

Wang, Elzbieta Kucharska

Acquisitions Budgets

• OTO supplements• Annual “OTO ongoing” supplement• Increase to base in 2007/08 and 2008/09• Fluctuations in the Canadian currency• Leveraging our dollars– Latest CRKN CFI Humanities & Social Sciences• $350,000 worth of e-resources for $75,000• i.e. > $1 million for $225,000 over three years

UW’s 6th Decade Plans

A strong and vibrant library is a vital component of an excellent teaching and research intensive university. The UW Library will continue to foster and be a model of collaboration, connectedness, and partnerships.

Sixth Decade Plans

• We will concentrate our efforts on three key themes:

1) Student experience2) Space3) E-initiatives

UW Executive Committee

• Several working groups established last fall:– Space– Online learning– Student engagement

Three themes

• Student experience– Engaging with students in the libraries and in the

faculties – “Commons” areas

• Space– Porter renovations– Davis lab– A major campus issue

Three themes – cont’d.

• E-Initiatives– Verde– Primo– Electronic theses• UW-Space

– Pre-print server pilot– E-content, e.g. latest CRKN CFI Humanities &

Social Sciences

Growing in different ways

• Sustaining and nurturing what we have done to date

• Seeding new initiatives and pilot projects• Leveraging growth opportunities as they arise

Questions?

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