Janine LockhartAugust 2009

Into the core: covers realigning with all relevant academic features and needs, focusing on our clients, getting to their real needs, delivering on critical services, decisively moving into research support, creating profile based services, etc.;

The click: covers improved use of information technology, including digitisation, technology integration and all other technology issues, e-mail on all PCs, using technology such as e-buying with credit card methods, etc.; 

Your place: targets enhanced client friendliness, aligning with the needs and the service delivery preferences of the Millennial user, making the Library casual, friendly, coffee shop idea, using cell phones to communicate with clients more easily, etc.;

Our memory: covers initiatives to create a repository of CPUT information, including academic documents such as electronic theses and dissertations, but also to capture (before it is too late) the old Technikon archival histories, and begin building a new CPUT institutional memory; and 

Free to chase dreams: staff issues such as job assignment flexibility, multi-skilling, empowerment of staff, the latitude to do experimentation and to take risks, incentivising ideas and rewarding success, doing much more internal research and development and obtaining the funding to pursue it as it should be done in a true university.

Budget – printing, entertainment, gifts, capital expenditure

Marketing material and all branding◦ Brochures (per campus)

◦ Bookmarks (per campus)

◦ General pamphlets (eResources, Digital Knowledge, etc.)

◦ Branding on databases Articles

◦ Moja (Staff newsletter)◦ Hub (Student newsletter)◦ Liasa In-Touch ◦ Newsflash◦ Etc.

Social Responsibilities◦ Book donations to:

Public libraries, schools, NGO’s etc. 2009 we donated to:

Cafda/Van Schaik bookstore NGO: Thembalitsha NGO: Narconon Drug Education NGO: Starckrehoboth Fundraising

Launches, e.g. Digital Knowledge

Exhibits (events calendar)◦ 9 campus libraries - one per month per campus

Feb – Budget Speech March – Library Week April – Freedom Day May – Tobacco Awareness Month June – National Blood Donor Month July – Vacation Aug – Woman’s Month Sept – Disability Awareness Week & Heritage Day Oct – Exam time

◦ Find and collect exhibit material◦ Create PPT around topic for LCD Screens◦ Visit every branch and put up exhibit◦ Build up collection of exhibit materials

Campaigns – noise campaign Promotion of any services or new departments

◦ e.g. Adaptive Technology◦ e.g. Entrepreneur Centre

Fundraising and sponsorships e.g. market day For Library staff

◦ Birthday cards◦ Raffle’s ◦ Woman’s Day goody bag ◦ Functions◦ Collections

The end!

Thank you