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Library-IT Task Force and Faculty Council Committee on Libraries

Background Materials

In a memo dated May 30, 2008, Senior Executive Vice President/Provost Tony Frank formed a task force to evaluate the status of our Library and in particular whether it would be beneficial to consolidate some Library functions with central Information Technology functions. Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs Peter Dorhout was appointed as the chair of the Library-IT Task Force, with an additional eight members from various areas of the campus. That task force has now been presented with a formal charge to produce recommendations by April 15, 2009. The Library has assembled some background materials for the Task Force, and will be assembling additional materials at the request of the Task Force. This web page is intended to serve as a resource for that activity, for the Faculty Council Committee on Libraries, and for those interested in those activities.

The following materials contain background information for the Task Force:

  1. Tony Frank's memo of May 30, 2008.
  2. The charge to the Task force.
  3. Brian Hawkins' article on the Unsustainability of the Traditional Library and the Threat to Higher Education, from Brian L. Hawkins and Patricia Battin (eds.), The Mirage of Continuity, Reconfiguring Academic Libraries for the 21st Century, Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, D.C., pp. 129-153 (1998).
  4. The Ithaka report, by Ross Housewright and Roger Schonfeld. "Ithaka's 2006 Studies of Key Stakeholders in the Digital Transformation in Higher Education," August 18, 2008, see http://www.ithaka.org/research/faculty-and-librarian-surveys (the final link is very complex, please click on the link 'in-depth white paper' in the second paragraph).
  5. PowerPoint presentation to the Task Force by Pat Burns on Library Unsustainability, October 2, 2008.
  6. Initial survey of faculty, graduate students and professionals on collections.
  7. PowerPoint presentation on Collections and Access, November 12, 2008.
  8. PowerPoint presentation and notes from the Open Forum on Collections, December 4, 2008.
  9. Survey 2 results, January 26, 2009.
  10. PowerPoint presentation 4.a and 4.b on comparisons with our peer ARL institutions, February 5, 2009.
  11. PowerPoint presentations on Purchasing by Pat Smith and New Programs by Jeff Bullington, February 19, 2009.
  12. PowerPoint presentation on Library-IT Synergies and Consolidation Opportunities, March 5, 2009.
  13. Recommendations on Libraries Funding, presented by the Chair of the Committee on Libraries to the IT Task Force, March 17, 2009.
  14. PowerPoint presentation on Digital Initiatives and Sustainability by Dawn Paschal and Janet Bishop, March 19, 2009.
  15. Report by the Libraries Faculty Council on Future Themes for the CSU Libraries, March 25, 2009.
  16. Summary of Significant Recommendations for CSU Libraries from R2 Consultant’s DRAFT report, May 4, 2009.
  17. Library IT Task Force Open Forum Presentation, May 6, 2009.
  18. R2 Workflow and Organizational Analysis: Final Report, May 7, 2009.
  19. Survey 4 results, May 12, 2009.
  20. Summary of Significant Recommendations for CSU Libraries from R2 Consultant’s Final report, May 29, 2009.
  21. Task Force DRAFT Report, July 3, 2009.
  22. 2010 Fiscal Year Collection Budget Summary, Chris Sugnet, Assistant Dean, CSU Libraries, August 21, 2009.
  23. PowerPoint presentation to the Cabinet and Council of Deans by Pat Burns on University Libraries Modernization (12.5MB), August 21, 2009.
  24. Task Force FINAL Report and Appendices, August 28, 2009.
  25. PowerPoint presentations at Tamasag Retreat, October 27, 2009:

For information about these materials, please feel free to contact Patrick.Burns@ColoState.edu.

This web page was last updated Monday, November 2, 2009 by PJB.