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Strategic Approaches to the New Academic Library

• Internet Librarian 2007
• Paul J. Bracke
• Associate Dean, Information Technology
• Tomalee Doan
• Head, Management Economics Library

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Context

• Purdue, like every other institution, is facing a
  changing information environment
• Leverage institutional characteristics to
  reposition the Libraries on campus
• Collaborative
• Moves into user flows
• Supports quick change

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Campus Context

• Land-grant institution with 37,000 students
• Strengths in the Sciences, Engineering,
  Agriculture, Business, Hospitality, Tourism
  Management
• Distributed environment
• 12 Libraries (down from 28 in the 1970s),
  Archives and Special Collections unit
• Campus computing environment
• Few central student spaces

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Campus Strategic Plan

• Campus strategic plan organized around
• -Discovery Interdisciplinary research
• -Learning Information Literacy
• -Engagement Enhanced quality of life
• Mirrored in Libraries plan

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Strategies for Moving to the New Model

• Staff transformation
• New initiatives
• Make foundational services more responsive
• Aggressively pursue new technologies
• Transform library spaces
• Do all of this quickly

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Management Economics Library (MEL)on the move

• Staff transformation
• Created Associate Head position
• Repurposed current paraprofessional staff
• Hired 2 new library faculty, another approved
• Hired 3 graduate assistants

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Organizational restructuring creates new
opportunitiesService. Service. Service. Did I
say service?

• New roles for librarians adds meaning and value
  to our customers
• Information Access funding
• Embedded Librarians
• Entrepreneurship Business Information Network
  (eBIN) using sharepoint portal

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Technology Tools that enable

• Infrastructure applications
• Career Wiki http//wiki.lib.purdue.edu/display/Car
  eer/Home
• Information Workflow tracking application
  (Numara)
• MyMEL toolbar http//mymel.mylibrarytoolbar.com/
• Course blogs http//melmgmt451.wordpress.com/
• Meebo http//www.lib.purdue.edu/mel/
• BizMAP http//www.lib.purdue.edu/mel/bizmap/Busine
  ssResearch.html
• BizFAQ http//faq.library.upenn.edu/recordList?act
  ionlibrarypurdue_businessinstitutionpurdue

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Moving Quickly! A paradigm shift from reactive
to proactive

• 8 times that desks chairs people changed
  location
• 34 people from other libraries volunteered to
  help us move our books and serials
• 38 windows replaced
• 266 boxes of annual reports moved to dark archive
• 379 boxes of books in the special collection
• 1,265 boxes packed and moved
• 6,306 carts pushed
• 20,657 linear feet of books serials moved
• 20,700 green, red, blue, orange, and striped dots
  ordered to code materials
• 169,307 items moved
• 1,631,750 steps taken to move our collection
• (thats 163.1 estimated miles)

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Build it and they will come

• Zones for collaborative and quiet spaces
• Small high use print collection
• Instructional learn lab for teaching
• Business financial center
• Coffee shop
• Open 24/7
• Place to see and be seen!

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Strategic Approaches to the New Academic Library

• Paul J. Bracke
• pbracke_at_purdue.edu
• Tomalee Doan
• tdoan_at_purdue.edu