Coming Soon to a Library Near You… (Summer 2006) Change! Coming Soon to a Library Near You… (Summer 2006)

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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 Process improvement and position analysis will result in some changes to job duties

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)