Strategic Plan Prepared by Melissa Druckrey and Jama Lumumba Jackson State University Division of Library and Information Resources

Selected attainments of Strategic Plan totally re-designed and upgraded library webpage major enhancements to science/technology resources information literacy initiative administering standardized IL test participation in a digital collaboration adding wireless internet connectivity adding a super computer lab opening library cyber café

Challenges to Confront: flat library resource budget inflationary trends in serial and electronic resources future of Ayers Fund rising user expectations

Goal 1: Enhance student outcomes through the provision of ongoing information literacy training and collaboration with faculty. Strategy 1.1: Support distance learning and student research endeavors by providing a seamless system of access to library web based resources and increase the use of electronic resources.

Goal 1: Enhance student outcomes through the provision of ongoing information literacy training and collaboration with faculty. Strategy 1.2: Assist colleges in efforts to improve students’ passage rate on examinations and research skills through a series of online library instruction tutorials.

Goal 1: Enhance student outcomes through the provision of ongoing information literacy training and collaboration with faculty. Strategy 1.3: Increase collaboration with faculty in creating library assignments that contribute to the learning outcomes of academic programs.

Goal 2: Maintain ongoing communication with faculty to maximize their productivity by more accurately addressing their teaching and research needs relative to library resources and services. Strategy 2.1: Support faculty research efforts by increasing the number of resources that meet their teaching and research needs.

Strategy 2.2: Support academic research with an increase in the number of liaison contacts to inform faculty and administrators about library resources that address specialized scholarly information needs. Goal 2: Maintain ongoing communication with faculty to maximize their productivity by more accurately addressing their teaching and research needs relative to library resources and services.

Goal 3: Coordinate initiatives to maintain and develop the skills of library staff to meet current and anticipated requirements. Strategy 3.1: Regularly assess library organizational structure and develop staff positions to meet changing operational requirements.

Goal 3: Coordinate initiatives to maintain and develop the skills of library staff to meet current and anticipated requirements. Strategy 3.2: Provide ongoing training to keep the skills and expertise of library staff current and accurately reflect the needs of the institution.

Goal 4: Develop and maintain working relationships with external groups through the pursuit of various collaboration/outreach endeavors. Strategy 4.1: Provide information resources and library facilities to meet the needs of secondary user groups, such as alumni, consortia members and the local community.

Goal 4: Develop and maintain working relationships with external groups through the pursuit of various collaboration/outreach endeavors. Strategy 4.2: Expand library services and partnerships to serve individuals and communities throughout the state.

Goal 4: Develop and maintain working relationships with external groups through the pursuit of various collaboration/outreach endeavors. Strategy 4.3: Enhance access to library resources by increasing the number of cooperative ventures with state, regional and national organizations.

Goal 4: Develop and maintain working relationships with external groups through the pursuit of various collaboration/outreach endeavors. Strategy 4.4: Develop JSU libraries as repositories of information and centers of access to global networks of international information resources.

Goal 5: Identify methods to enhance the access to resources through the use of digital technology. Strategy 5.1: Employ technology to digitize, preserve and provide access to finding aids, photographs, manuscripts, JSU documents (including Presidential papers) and other primary source materials that record the region’s cultural, historical and social heritage.

Goal 5: Identify methods to enhance the access to resources through the use of digital technology. Strategy 5.2: Maintain, enhance and remain at the forefront of library technology to provide support for current as well as emerging modes of instructional delivery.

Goal 6: Optimize the library environment. Strategy 6.1: Regularly employ library space planning evaluation to affect optimal utilization of the facility in an effort to be more responsive to changing user needs.

Goal 6: Optimize the library environment. Strategy 6.2: Identify and implement environmentally responsible practices (i.e. recycling, energy conservation).