Change!

Coming Soon to a Library Near You…

(Summer 2006)

Connecting people with ideas in support of teaching,

learning, scholarship, and academic distinction.

Goals

Planning for the future Creating new services Improving current services Enriching staff work Improving stewardship of resources

Planning for the Future

Prepare for BAIRS Scenario planning

based on several possible timelines

Determining parts of the collection to move to BAIRS

Preparing the collection for BAIRS

Creating New Services

Launch document delivery service Limited rollout of book

delivery service – Fall 2006

Future plans Campus-wide book

delivery for faculty Electronic delivery of

articles from Baylor collections

Improving Current Services

Improve interlibrary request processing time and fill rate

Enriching Staff Work

Bring together people who will be working together

Improve workflow and training

Automate routine tasks Provide interesting work

for staff in underutilized positions

Improving Stewardship of Resources Share staff between

Circulation/Reserves and Interlibrary Services

Share expensive scanning equipment between Reserves and Interlibrary Services

Staff Reference services efficiently

Arrange CSD staff based on services, not legacy print collections

The Changes…

Organizational Changes: New responsibilities

BAIRS planning – Linda Cobbs Other responsibility changes – after looking at procedures

and workflow

Creation of Access Services Unit Merger of Circulation and Interlibrary Services Access Services unit leader – Ken Carriveau All reporting lines remain the same, except those who have

reported to Linda will now report to Ken

The Changes…

Collection Moves: Moving to Jones 1st

Science reference collection Government documents reference collection Government documents microforms and maps 2/3 of government documents print collection

Remaining 1/3 of government documents collection weeded per FDLP guidelines or moved to cage

Moving to Moody Garden Level General collection Z’s Zeta’s

Moving to General Collection Materials no longer needed for the Reference Collection can be

moved into the General Collection

The Changes…

People Moves: Preservation unit to Government Documents area

(including microform/map room) Government Documents and Science &

Engineering personnel to Interlibrary Services area and Jeff’s office

Jeff, Linda, and Ken to Library Advancement area Sarah to Linda’s office Lib Advancement to Science & Engineering area

Steps – Initial Draft

Task Forces

Gov Docs Shifting Z & Zeta Shifting Jones 1st Public Space Planning Signage Web pages Communication Workspace planning (every unit)