Syracuse University

Targets for Transformation:A Strategic Plan for the Syracuse University Library 2000-2005

http://library.syr.edu/information/strategicplan/

What is their vision?

Their vision of Syracuse University Library--its people, services, collections, and facilities--is of a nationally significant research library that understands the needs of its users and has actively developed the resources and methods to meet those needs now and in the future.

Where do they see their academic library going?

The plan indentified targets for transformation that will move the Library forward. As a starting point, the Library must undergo a change in culture that will enable it to achieve the plan's goals and initiatives. This culture change will evolve:

• Fully embracing the concept of the user-centered library.
• Concentrating on the value-added activities that are the Library's unique or incontrovertible responsibilities and that make an impact on our users
• Obtaining the necessare resources for important activites or positions
• Focusing on the future and quickening the pace
• Encouraging risk-taking and creative dissent
• Establishing a strong collective identity and working as one whole organization

What is their goal?

Planning Theme 1: Information Technology (IT): Choose, employ, and fully support tools and applications from both current and emerging technologies that will "enable meaningful navigation through and exploitation of information resources" required by users and staff.

Planning Theme 2: User Services: Provide and promote expert user services that are available at the time and place of need.

Planning Theme 3: Collections, Preservation, and Access. Select, organize, preserve, and provide access to collections in all formats that fully suppport Syracuse University's teaching and research activities.

Planning Theme 4: Staff and Organizational Development. Continually support, develop, attract, and retain a highly skilled and qualified staff who are committed to transforming the library. Develop the Library to become a more responsive, flexible, and effective organization.

Planning Theme 5: Physical Space. Recreate our physical spaces to transform the library into an inviting, effective environment for exploration and discovery, study, and reflection, and the exchange of ideas.

Planning Theme 6: Communication and Development. Enthusiastically promote the Library to increase its visibility and presence on and off campus. Actively seek and secure greater financial support from a wide variety of sources both internal and external to the University.

What is their resource allocation?

2005 total expenditure was 13,995,085