MISSION
The UCSD Libraries will create for the UCSD community a comprehensive digital
library program to provide a powerful, useful, and exciting environment for
access to digital information and knowledge. The Libraries will catalyze and
develop collaborations among the campus' various information and knowledge
centers to enhance scholarship and research at UCSD.
STRATEGIC GOALS for 2001-2004
GOAL 1: Integration
Integrate a full range of digital resources and services.
Objective 1
Implement remote delivery of digital text, image, audio, video, and data resources.Objective 1.1
Implement eReserves for digital text by Fall 2001.Objective 1.2
Implement inter-campus and intra-campus desktop delivery of articlesObjective 2
Deliver digital content via the UCSD Libraries Web site.
Objective 3
Improve access by remote users to reference and information services.Objective 3.1
Convene a task force to review and evaluate electronic reference services.
GOAL 2: Collaboration
Develop and support diverse collaborations on digital projects both within
the UCSD Libraries and with partners in the community.
Objective 1
Provide collaborative leadership for a digital content project on campus to convert content to digital form and to enhance, disseminate, and promote the use of this content.
Objective 2
Continue to establish and expand regional, national, and international collaborations.Objective 2.1
Develop a project in partnership with the San Diego Historical Society to make SIO and SDHS ocean-related content more accessible to scientists and the general public.
Objective 2.2
Work collaboratively to develop a utility that will simultaneously search multiple databases.
Objective 2.3
Participate in the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF).
Objective 2.4
Expand and promote the development of the Pacific Rim Library.
GOAL 3: Interoperability
Promote shared technology architectures and standards needed to achieve interoperability
and integration of digital information resources.
Objective 1
Adopt and promulgate standards and best practices for developing and managing UCSD digital library initiatives.
Objective 1.1
Create a Libnet Web site for library staff to encourage digital library standards and best local practices.
Objective 2
Participate in collaborations to develop and implement digital library standards.
Objective 2.1
Incorporate Online Archive of California (OAC) Best Practice Guidelines into local encoding procedures.
Objective 2.2
Participate in the establishment of Best Practice Guidelines and standards for preserving digital objects.Objective 2.3
Participate in the ARL discussion of a Scholars Portal.
GOAL 4: Education
Inform and educate library staff and the campus about digital collections,
services, and technologies, including intellectual property rights in the
digital environment.
Objective 1
Staff education
Objective 1.1
Educate library staff through a series of Digital Dialogues featuring speakers both from within the UCSD Libraries and from outside organizations.
Objective 1.2
Support continuing education through staff exchanges, training, conferences, and participation in collaborative projects.Objective 2
Campus education
Objective 2.1
Educate faculty through a series of Digital Dialogues featuring speakers both from within the UCSD Libraries and from outside organizations.
Objective 2.2
Create and maintain a public Web page that congregates the UCSD Libraries digital services and collections, and that describes current projects.Objective 3
Outreach and Publicity
Objective 3.1
Publicize UCSD digital library projects through presentations and publications.
Objective 3.2
Create and maintain a public Web page that congregates the UCSD Libraries digital services and collections, and that describes current projects.
GOAL 5: Infrastructure
Provide a reliable and robust infrastructure for information technology throughout
the UCSD Libraries.
Objective 1
Design and operate an integrated, scalable, fault-tolerant architecture of servers and services that can meet the demands of digital library projects and programs.Objective 2
Ensure the continuity and evolution of software assets by building and using modular, reusable, documented software components.Objective 3
Take full advantage of current and emerging technologies that support digital library programs.
Objective 3.1
Implement wireless technology throughout UCSD Libraries.
Objective 3.2
Increase bandwidth as needed.
Objective 3.3
Develop enterprise-wide mass storage strategies.
GOAL 6: Assessment
Develop a program of regular assessment and measurement to evaluate current
programs and to plan for future digital library needs.
Objective 1
Develop procedures that assess the viability of potential digital library projects.Objective 2
Ensure that every digital library project undertaken includes an evaluation component.Objective 3
Develop strategies to manage the transition of successful projects into supported programs.