Goals and Objectives - Resource Sharing Committee
Goals & Objectives 2009-2010
1.
Goal: Identifies and
Analyzes resource sharing innovations, strategies and trends.
1.1.
OBJECTIVE:
Monitor and evaluate developments with the Rethinking Resource Sharing (RRS)
Foundation (http://www.rethinkingresourcesharing.net).
1.2.
OBJECTIVE:
Identify alternative tools and
methods to in-person meetings.
2.
Goal: Identifies and discusses policy
issues and recommends best practices that facilitate resource sharing among
campuses.
2.1.
OBJECTIVE:
Address on-going operation of the Consortial Borrowing Software product (VDX).
RSC will add assessment and training review components
for the system. RSC will evaluate resource-sharing activities to ensure
development of ongoing communication mechanisms and management of operational
issues.
2.2.
OBJECTIVE:
Review UC Resource Sharing in light of the Next Generation Melvyl project.
Implement fully functional Request feature in Next
Generation Melvyl. Maintain the Request feature in the current Melvyl catalog
and licensed databases, as needed.
2.3.
OBJECTIVE:
Review ILL Loan Periods.
3.
GOAL: Identifies and analyzes barriers
to expeditious sharing of materials and recommends solutions to remove these
barriers.
3.1.
OBJECTIVE:
Pursue future Peer-to-Peer Lending with non-UC institutions using ISO-ILL
protocol.
3.2.
OBJECTIVE:
Promote adoption of NCIP and related standards among UC ILS vendors to
facilitate interoperability of circulation-related systems, such communications
between ISO ILL systems and local circulation modules.
3.3.
OBJECTIVE:
Pursue expedited shipping of materials between the UCs and new peer-to-peer
lenders.
4.
Goal: Coordinates system-wide
activities relating to interlibrary loan, circulation, and reserves with the
California Digital Library (CDL) and RSC’s Interlibrary Loan Advisory Group
(IAG) and Circulation Advisory Group (CAG – which includes reserves) and
other groups as needed.
4.1.
Objective:
Develop a UC Resource Sharing Code.
Because there continue to be resource sharing issues
that need guidelines for staff, RSC will develop a "Resource Sharing Code" for
the UCs.
4.2.
OBJECTIVE:
Continue the Circulation Advisory Group’s best practices workshops at its annual
CircHeads meeting.
Topics are selected and assigned to campus
representatives at annual meeting for presentation the following year.
5.
GOAL: Coordinates communication on UC
resource sharing issues with interlibrary services, circulation, collection
development, special collections, technical services, and other groups as
appropriate.
5.1.
OBJECTIVE:
Develop a UC listserv to facilitate communication between campuses regarding
emergency and disaster related topics.
5.2.
OBJECTIVE:
Take an active role in responding to reports from SOPAG and other All-Campus
Groups and investigate opportunities for collaboration, as appropriate.
5.3.
OBJECTIVE:
Implement tools for RSC, IAG, and CAG to securely gather, share, and communicate
information, i.e., wikis, blogs, or other collaborative tools.
5.4.
OBJECTIVE:
Maintain the RSC web sites using guidelines from SOPAG.
6.
Goal: Identifies and addresses
educational and training needs of resource sharing staff across the UC
libraries.
6.1.
To be defined
7.
GOAL: Coordinates collection,
organization of and system-wide reporting of UC ILL/Resource Sharing
statistics.
7.1.
OBJECTIVE:
Work with CDL to define the statistical information to be measured and develop
more efficient methods of reporting UC ILL statistics.
See also the annual reports from
IAG and
CAG.
Annual Report
2008/09 and Goal 2009/10
Annual Report 2007/08 and Goals 2008/09
Annual Report 2006/07 and Goals 2007/08
Annual Report
2005/06 and Goals 2006/07
Annual Report
2004/05 and Goals 2005/06
Goals and
Objectives 2004/05
Goals and
Objectives 2003/04
Goals and Objectives 2002/03
Goals and Objectives 2001/02
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