ADDENDUM TO THE CIC LIBRARIES' STRATEGIC PLAN

Strategic Priorities - Calendar Year 1997

DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE INTER-UNIVERSITY CIRCULATION AND DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICE WITHIN THE CIC.

Improve lending and document delivery process and performance across the CIC by exploring new models for management of ILL services and implementing the following activities and policies:

• Identify and establish performance standards for lending and document delivery among CIC members.
• Move from 11.5 days to 5 days (or less) from time of patron initiation to time of availability to patron.
• Explore options for "desktop" delivery of information to the end user.
• Implement the "net lender" reimbursement policy on July 1, 1997 if warranted.
• Establish uniform 4 week loan period for all CIC libraries.
• Revise CIC Resource Sharing Plan, as appropriate, to reflect new policies and standards.
  

PROVIDE CONTINUED SUPPORT. The following are considered dynamic activities that will not necessarily see completion in 1997, but will realize substantive progress towards established/emerging plans in these areas:

• Under the direction of the Automation Directors and the Public Service Directors, continue development and refinement of the VEL infrastructure, including enhancements and refinement to the patron interface, retrieval of information from the systems, and substantive progress towards the "Phase II" lending and document delivery management system.

• Under the direction of the Task Force on the CIC Electronic Collection, the Collection Development Officers and the Electronic Resource Officers, continue the aggressive acquisition of electronic information resources in support of the CIC VEL; support ongoing investigations into the feasibility of providing networked access to federal government information and to GIS; make substantive progress towards the development of a CIC Electronic Reference Service; and expand the CIC EJC.

• Under the direction of the Collection Development Officers and the Automation Directors, develop and employ a method of analyzing monograph and serial collections.

• Under the direction of the Technical Services Directors, continue to work towards complete retrospective conversion of CIC library bibliographic records; and expand collaborative cataloging efforts in support of cooperative acquisitions.

• Under the direction of the Preservation Officers and the Task Force on Preservation and Digital Technology, pursue coordinated preservation endeavors, including microfilming, preservation using digital technology, and the preservation of electronic information resources.
  
  
  
  
  

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