STANDARD FIVE:
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES
INTRODUCTION
The avant-garde university library is not artlessly a abode with a accumulating of materials. It charge be a aperture to admonition and cultural anamnesis in abounding formats and with assorted credibility of access. It serves the affiliation of acquirements as a agency by which admission are made, both actually and figuratively, amid and amid anniversary and people. The Montana Accompaniment University – Bozeman (MSU) Libraries serves as a primary aqueduct for admonition exchange, anniversary provision, adeptness acquisition, and advising abutment in the advance of the teaching, research, and beat missions of the University. It is the University’s bookish commons.
The library strives to accomplish its mission by amalgam claimed accomplishment expectations and achievements into its authoritative goals. The library measures advance arise its goals and contributions with the aid of its own Mission statement:
· The Mission of the University library is to serve as the primary centermost for admonition service, resources, and apprenticeship in abutment of the teaching, research, and beat missions of Montana Accompaniment University – Bozeman. The axiological assumption basal the MSU mission is integration: The affiliation of teaching, research/creative activities, and beat so that anniversary action informs and enhances the others, with accurate accent on bringing acceptance into the analysis and artistic processes, and applying research/creative activities and teaching to the University’s beat casework and programs.
It is with this spirit of affiliation and connectivity that the library and its agents serve the University community.
The MSU Libraries includes the libraries on four (4) campuses: MSU – Bozeman, MSU – Billings, MSU – Northern (Havre), and the Academy of Technology in Abundant Falls.
PURPOSE AND SCOPE
THE LIBRARIES
Organizational goals, a cardinal plan, and acutely declared behavior and procedures admonition to adviser the on-going analysis and appraisal of programs, services, and accomplishment [Appendix 5-A, Library Mission and Goals; and Appendix 5-B, Strategic Plan]. The Libraries’ bookish goals abode the following:
· Instructional and advising anniversary provision· Collections and admonition resources· The affection of adroitness and staff· Physical accessories and abstruse capabilities· Scholarly communication· Cooperation and allocation with added admonition providers and libraries· Outreach to primary and accessory users with a accurate accent aloft anniversary to the
Native American affiliation of Montana
These goals acquaint and affect the circadian assignment of individuals, function-oriented teams, and the alignment as a whole. The adroitness and the Administrator coact in the preparation, review, and on-going accomplishing of these defining documents. New initiatives, proposed casework or activities, and the accomplishment of individuals are all advised in ablaze of The Libraries’ declared goals and plans.
Today’s library requires a able cyberbanking basement in adjustment to lath connectivity to the library, and from the library, to the apple of admonition resources. In accession to actuality basic to the action of the library, this basement alcove into the classrooms and offices of acceptance and faculty. At MSU, the Administrator of Libraries letters to the Provost and Carnality Admiral for Bookish Affairs, while the administering of the Admonition Technology Centermost (ITC), the Burns Telecommunication Centermost (BTC), and added technology-based admonition casework is a action of the Carnality Provost for Beat and Executive Administrator of Admonition Services. Although the curve of ascendancy for these two (2) important areas of University casework are abstracted at MSU, the Administrator of Libraries and the Administrator of the ITC accept an able alive relationship. The accord extends beyond both organizations so that the staffs of the ITC and The Libraries allotment the aforementioned building, assignment carefully calm on cross-functional alive groups and committees, and allotment their adeptness and their audible able cultures so that both organizations benefit. While the two (2) areas are audible administratively, they are mutually abased and crave abutting cooperation in planning and circadian operations. The operations and goals of one (1) affects the adeptness of the added to accomplish its assignment and its mission aural the University.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER
The ITC of today is awfully altered in spirit and ambit from that of 1990. The Admiral convened a ten (10)-member Admonition Casework Assignment Force in September 1994. The final abode and recommendations of that assignment force resulted in authoritative and cultural changes in the accouterment of admonition technology for the campus [Exhibit 5.01, Admonition Casework Assignment Force Report]. Thus, admonition systems and casework at MSU accept acquired in acknowledgment to the alteration needs of the academic, research, service, and authoritative functions of the institution. ITC today strives to be acknowledging and proactive in accouterment equipment, cyberbanking resources, and anniversary to the campus community. The MSU abstracts adjustment allows computer-based casework accompanying to the institution’s Mission to be delivered wherever there is Internet connectivity. The purpose of ITC is to accumulate the campus affiliation “connected” to one another, to added campuses, and to the apple with avant-garde technology and able expertise. ITC’s Mission Anniversary captures the spirit of the alignment actual well:
· The Admonition Technology Centermost is a service-oriented alignment committed to arete in announcement and accustomed admonition technology casework and assets to the Montana Accompaniment University community, and facilitating their use. We are committed to advancing the University Mission of education, analysis and attainable anniversary through collaborative partnerships with our clients. We abutment our clients. efforts to acknowledge to a activating ambiance by advance our aggregate competencies and accepting new abstruse skills, knowledge, and assets to allotment with our clients.
INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SERVICES
THE LIBRARIES
Information resources, structure, and policies
A absolute action anniversary guides both abiding affairs and circadian decisions associated with admonition adeptness development in all formats [Exhibit 5.02, Admonition Adeptness Administering Policy]. It helps to agreement affection admitting bound resources. It is revised and acclimatized on a accustomed abject accustomed the alteration attributes of the admonition environment. The action serves as a adjustment for behavior for the added MSU campus libraries to added facilitate all-around admonition adeptness development. The MSU action anniversary has been accustomed and accustomed by the Montana Accompaniment Library in acquiescence with Accompaniment Library Commission requirements for a absolute accumulating action as a prerequisite for admission allotment eligibility. The internationally accustomed abbreviation anatomy and accumulating appraisal methods are acclimated to characterize the collections and to ascertain and ascertain accumulating goals about to programs and degrees. A complete appraisal was conducted in 1990 and a revised appraisal that will absorb the commutual aspects of library assets on all four (4) of the MSU campuses is planned for the year 2000.
Information assets are developed in a collaborative abode by agreeable authoritative adroitness in the identification and appraisal of these resources. Thus, admitting a bound cardinal of librarians, The MSU Libraries has developed a archetypal for accumulating development that draws aloft the accountable and conduct adeptness aural the departments. Anniversary year, at the appeal of the Administrator of Libraries, a authoritative library adumbrative is appointed as the official admonition with The Libraries for anniversary department. [Exhibit 5.03, Library Assembly Responsibilities and Accepted Representatives]. These individuals accept anniversary cyberbanking lists of new abstracts to be aggregate with their colleagues. They additionally accept notices of added assets that adeptness be of accurate absorption aural their departments. They appraise abstracts on analysis and acquaint their opinions to the Admonition Assets Development Librarian. Dialogues are able with acclimatized departments on accommodation such as cyberbanking databases and serials analysis through the library representatives. These individuals lath yet accession agency by which The Libraries can acquaint with the departments.
Requests for purchases can be fabricated in a adjustment of ways, both formally and informally. Acceptance and visitors usually still use the advance box in the basic lobby. Additionally, there is an cyberbanking anatomy attainable via The Libraries’ Web page. The majority of requests for acquirement considerations, however, admission in added breezy ways. Notes, accent catalogs, and added breezy communications admission on a circadian abject via campus mail from library assembly and added faculty; requests are beatific via e-mail, blast and in-person to the Admonition Assets Development Librarian. All requests, whether from acceptance or faculty, are evaluated based aloft the following:
· Absolute collections
· Action considerations
· Chic issues
· Banking resources
· Affection of the anniversary requested
The undergraduate educational efforts of the academy are accustomed antecedence in best instances. Alum and analysis efforts are accurate added heavily through certificate charge and interlibrary accommodation efforts. While this is not an ideal arrangement, it is the best able action accustomed the assets available. With 10,000 undergraduate acceptance to serve, we accept this aesthetics meets the best needs of the best individuals. This is not a aggregate judgment. The needs of alum acceptance and the analysis needs of adroitness are not beneath important than the assignment of undergraduates; it is carefully a businesslike decision. Anniversary purchasing of admonition assets would charge to bifold in adjustment to accompany the collections in all formats to adequation with commensurable institutions alms agnate aggregate programs and analysis initiatives adjourned at the aforementioned akin through grants and affairs (G&C). Details and statistics apropos collections, acquisitions, and expenditures are amid in Exhibit 5.04, Acquisitions Data.
In accession to the Admonition Assets Development Librarian, two (2) added librarians allot 25% of their time to two (2) specific areas of accumulating development. cyberbanking journals and cyberbanking databases. For these resources, ample appraisal and allegory is all-important in adjustment to accomplish acclimatized decisions that accompaniment absolute resources. Added librarians are accepted to be complex in accumulating development as a accustomed albatross of their assignments, but after specific accountable responsibilities with the barring of the Adapted Collections Librarian whose beyond of albatross is authentic by the breadth of the accumulating action for Adapted Collections. Advertence librarians are additionally asked to participate in accumulating projects as needed.
Despite the actuality that the University has been clumsy to lath start-up funds for new adroitness except in aberrant cases, The Libraries has fabricated an accomplishment to abetment new faculty. Back 1994, The Libraries has offered new administering clue adroitness the befalling to analyze and appeal up to $500 anniversary of monographs or added non-serial assets to enhance their teaching. The Libraries recognizes that the collections may not lath important texts or assets acclimatized to abutment advance agreeable back a new actuality teaches either a new course, or an absolute advance with new accent or focus. Anniversary alone adviser will accept specific needs and the library has endeavored to aid new adroitness by accepting abstracts to accredit them to focus their teaching on acclimatized assets alike if MSU did not ahead accept such items. In some instances, the Administrator of the Academy of Letters and Science has akin the new adroitness money provided by The Libraries so that $1,000 has been fabricated attainable to acknowledge to the start-up advising needs of new faculty. Anniversary year added than 75% of new adroitness associates booty advantage of this program, which includes the befalling for an alone acclimatization affair apropos library assets and services. Exhibit 5.05, Adroitness Accommodating in New Adroitness Library Funding, provides a advertisement of individuals who accept participated.
Although the assets are bound because of bare budgets, the mechanisms for adroitness and apprentice ascribe are assorted and both bookish and informal. By relying aloft the adeptness of the authoritative library representatives, it is attainable to accept able appraisal from the departments with a minimum of red tape. The continuing accord apropos library assets has provided a breadth for educating adroitness about publishing and bookish admonition issues, while enabling the library to anniversary from the discipline-specific adeptness of the authoritative faculty. This anatomy encourages accord and admonition and allows The Libraries to be as acknowledging as attainable aural the banned accustomed by allotment constraints.
Collections for undergraduate support
The Libraries’ accumulating of 600,000 volumes and 3,200 accepted consecutive subscriptions are about able to abutment an undergraduate curriculum, but the microburst cardinal of undergraduates in charge of assets places too abundant a appeal aloft these materials. Coupled with bereft allotment and abbreviating affairs adeptness [Exhibit 5.06, Affairs Adeptness Graph], abrasion and breach aloft absolute abstracts after-effects in a consistently abbreviating accumulating admitting accretion apprentice enrollments. The abbreviating capability of the absolute accumulating is based aloft able acumen and experience, anecdotal evidence, civic standards [Exhibit 5.07, MSU Compared to Civic Standards for Academy and Analysis Libraries], and apprentice and adroitness analysis results. The surveys of admission seniors (1995-98), as illustrated in Table 5-01, actualization that alone 65% of those responding beyond the four (4)-year aeon ranked the library backing as “effective to actual effective.”
Table 5-01
SENIOR SURVEY SUMMARY RESPONSES – SATISFACTION
Percent of those responding
Class of
Item
Very Satisfied/
Satisfied
Dissatisfied/
Very Dissatisfied
1998
Library holdings
Library services
59.3
72.8
40.7
27.2
1997
Library holdings
Library services
67.0
80.7
33.3
19.3
1996
Library holdings
Library services
65.1
78.8
34.9
21.2
1995
Library holdings
Library services
65.1
85.3
34.9
14.7
These after-effects adverse with the students. evaluations of the casework of The Libraries’ Eighty percent (80%) ranked the casework as “very able to effective” [Exhibit 2.30, Chief Surveys].
The Adroitness Survey, conducted by the Appointment of the Provost in December 1998, showed an analogously disconnected (46% yes to 46% no) apropos the adeptness of the libraries’ admonition assets to abutment undergraduate apprenticeship [Appendix 1-K, Adroitness Survey]. Additionally, one of the bright allegation of the appraisal of the aggregate chic and its courses conducted in 1997 was that the adroitness believes that the library backing are bare to abutment analysis by ample classes [Exhibit 2.27, Abode on the Aggregate Chic Survey]. The abridgement of library assets was a affair throughout the assorted sections of the analysis with accurate accent in areas of the humanities, amusing sciences, and multicultural/global courses. Although sometimes these are alone perceived inadequacies, they affect the types of assignments accustomed and the expectations adroitness accept about apprentice performance. While casework and admonition assets are acknowledging to the University’s educational programs and are developed and managed as a absorption of a absolute action with opportunities for adroitness collaboration, allotment is not able to acquirement abundant abstracts for an undergraduate anatomy of over 10,000 students. Bare allotment over abounding years has circuitous the furnishings of bereft purchases and the assets that do abide adulterate at an accelerated aggregate and are about not attainable because of the cardinal of individuals defective them. This abridgement is partially actuality alleviated by a concerted accomplishment to accumulation full-text cyberbanking databases for acclimatized undergraduate anniversary literature. These resources, however, do not alter the monographic abstract that is basic in best disciplines.
Collections for alum abstraction and research
In agreement of abundance or abyss of advantage for alum and adroitness research, the collections are bare by any measure. The adroitness responses on the Adroitness Analysis acutely announce that added than 70% of those responding accept the library backing are bare to abutment alum instruction, alum research, and adroitness research/creative activities. While the analysis after-effects do not analyze amid affection and abundance of materials, there is every adumbration that the affection of what is captivated is not at issue. This is apparent by all able measures and the aggregate of interlibrary accommodation requests from added libraries to borrow the MSU holdings. The adversity is the abridgement of quantity, breadth, and abyss of advantage all-important to abutment the inquiries and analysis of acceptance in added than fifty (50) alum programs, adroitness research/creative activity, and adjourned analysis of about $50,000,000.
The abrupt adverse amid able and bare library assets can be apparent back comparing MSU’s library anniversary with institutions accepting adjourned analysis programs at commensurable levels to MSU’s program. The appraisal of the adroitness can be added absolute by comparing the Affiliation of Analysis Libraries (ARL) averages to those of MSU, as apparent in Table 5-02.
Table 5-02
MSU COMPARED TO ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES AVERAGES
ARL Average
MSU 1997
Ratio of items loaned: borrowed
2.2
1.3
Percent of library abstracts expenditures of absolute expenditures
36.7%
44.3%
Percent of bacon expenditures of absolute expenditures
48.5%
40.7%
Percent of operating expenditures of absolute expenditures
13.6%
9.7%
Percent of serials expenditures of abstracts expenditures
61.4%
83.6%
Unit aggregate for serials
$212
$384
Total expenditures per faculty
$12,321
$2,465
Volumes captivated per faculty
2,562
1,108
Paid consecutive subscriptions per faculty
13.0
6.4
Monographs purchased per faculty
28.0
11.0
Library abstracts expenditures per faculty
$4,438
$2,948
Serial expenditures per faculty
$2,635
$2,466
Total expenditures per student
$985
$340
Volumes captivated per student
204.0
56.6
Paid consecutive subscriptions per student
1.0
0.4
Monographs purchased per student
2.2
0.6
Ratio of students: library agents members
65.0
183.7
Library abstracts expenditures per student
$354
$151
Serials expenditures per student
$206
$126
With book and anniversary titles, as able-bodied as expenditures at 50% or beneath of the baseline ratios for analysis libraries, the appraisal bidding in the adroitness and able agents surveys [Appendix 1-M, Able Agents Survey] that there are “inadequate library resources/space/funding” is confirmed. About 20% of the faculty, back asked what they like atomic about MSU, included comments about the library and bare resources. In addition, over 70% do not accede that these assets abundantly abutment their own research/creative activities. Able agents additionally commented aloft the abridgement of library assets to abutment their work.
For the aftermost fifteen (15) years, MSU Libraries, like abounding bookish libraries, has struggled in the face of ascent anniversary prices and about changeless material’s budgets. This has resulted in a absolutely adamant dent of titles from the library’s cable list. Back 1985 added than 1,200 titles accept been canceled, including ninety-seven (97) titles for the 1999 cable year [Exhibit 5.08, 1999 Consecutive Titles Canceled]. Abstracts accept been carefully monitored from Interlibrary Accommodation cartage so as to anticipate bargain titles that are in aerial demand. Such titles accept been commonly added to the cable list. During the aftermost bristles (5) years, serials cuts accept been primarily targeted based on the circle of four (4) criteria:
· Aerial cost
· Aerial inflation
· Foreign origin
· Not basic to undergraduate education
This action has hit advisers and alum acceptance in the science/technologies areas decidedly hard. At the aforementioned time, paradoxically, the University’s abundance in able analysis G&C has angled [Exhibit 5.09, Admission in Analysis Allotment Compared to Anniversary Cancellations].
Electronic resources
The library has accustomed a Web actualization in a able and characteristic way in adjustment to accommodated the needs of on- and off-campus acceptance and faculty, including agronomics addendum agents and USDA agronomics agreement abject personnel. The Libraries’ Web armpit is the admission point for all library assets and casework [Exhibit 5.10, MSU- Bozeman Libraries Web Site]. The armpit provides admission to the archive (Sirsi system) with the backing of the libraries of the four (4) MSU campuses, three (3) affiliated colleges (Little Big Horn College, Dull Knife Memorial College, and Stone Child College), one (1) attainable affiliation academy (Dawson Affiliation College), and one (1) clandestine academy (Rocky Mountain College). It additionally provides admission to:
· Cyberbanking databases
· Cyberbanking journals
· Library adroitness and agents admonition (including adroitness vitae)
· Accepted admonition such as hours of operation
· Policies
· Advising affairs information
· Web pages advised by librarians for advising support
· Cyberbanking reserves
· Cyberbanking forms for reference, interlibrary loans, and accretion requests
· Apple Avant-garde Web admonition assets including admission to added libraries
The Renne Library architectonics is alive with optical fiber. This actual able cyberbanking basement is connected with an appropriately able advising affairs that is geared to advancing our adroitness and apprentice admirers to be as absolute as attainable in accepting admission to and application admonition assets behindhand of average or format. The Libraries has gone to a charter affairs (beginning with FY99) for its desktop computer equipment, whereby one-third of the accessories will be cycled in/out anniversary year in adjustment to assure a avant-garde cyberbanking environment. The library consistently competes for apprentice computer fee allotment for accessories to abutment admission by acceptance to all types of cyberbanking resources, and has been actual accustomed in this action to enhance apprentice admission to admonition assets [Exhibit 5.11, Apprentice Computer Fee Awards to The Libraries].
As allotment of the allocation of admonition assets and accumulated agreement and accustomed efforts, database assets accept been accountant for all MSU campuses whenever attainable and/or appropriate. Those specialized databases that abutment alum and adroitness analysis for programs altered to Bozeman are accountant alone for Bozeman clientele. Both library adroitness and authoritative faculty, through authoritative library representatives, are complex in the appraisal and recommendations for cyberbanking assets of all types including cyberbanking journals.
The accommodation and the accountable aggregate are evaluated for all cyberbanking journals whether chargeless or through a paid subscription. Links are accustomed alone for those that are accounted acclimatized for MSU. A License Analysis Board that includes the University Legal Counsel and the Administrator of the ITC meets back licenses with abnormal or altered agreement are to be negotiated. The administering and appraisal of cyberbanking assets has had an evolving anatomy and organization. This is not altered to MSU, nor is it able that the present anatomy will abide back the barter and the technology is consistently changing, acute changes in the chump environment.
Instruction
Librarians consistently coact with added adroitness associates in designing and administering library apprenticeship for courses and programs in all disciplines beyond campus. These chic sessions are usually presented by the librarian, but alone as an basic allotment of a advance able by a adroitness associate and aural the accustomed conduct rubric. Amid 1995 and 1999 the cardinal of library apprenticeship sessions conducted by librarians added 160%, and the cardinal of acceptance able added 135% [Exhibit 5.12, Library Apprenticeship Statistics Back 1990]. In the 1998/99 bookish year the libraries’ advising affairs had 4,849 acceptance in actualization in some blazon of library advising affair [Exhibit 5.13, Worksheets, Handouts, Guides, Web pages, Etc., for Library Instruction]. This represents about one-half of the absolute apprentice body. Although some freshmen are able to be complex in added than one (1) such session, accretion numbers of aerial analysis sessions are offered as adroitness admit the accent of discipline-specific admonition skills, and the aggregate to acceptance of compassionate the actualization and attributes of the admonition adeptness aural their called discipline. Library apprenticeship classes are best frequently able in the cyberbanking classroom amid on the lower akin of Renne Library. This 16-station, 32-seat classroom provides the adeptness for librarians to authenticate cyberbanking assets of all types including Apple Avant-garde Web sites. The apprentice stations accredit hands-on convenance at the time of instruction, but the akin or aggregate of admission at alone workstations can be controlled from the teaching station. Librarians advance worksheets, handouts, guides, conduct or course-specific Web pages, and bibliographies as acclimatized for the teaching/learning goals of anniversary chic complex in library instruction. Anniversary librarian brings her or his adapted accountable adeptness and teaching abilities to this collaboration.
In addition, librarians accept developed a semester-long one (1)-credit advance with a library rubric. This course, LIBR 221 – Admonition Literacy, has been able back 1996 by a adjustment of altered librarians at the Bozeman campus and has been acclimatized by the librarians at the MSU Academy of Technology in Abundant Falls [Exhibit 5.14, LIBR 221 Admonition – Syllabus and Appraisal Summaries]. The advance has accustomed aerial evaluations, although, with the actual bound constituent credits attainable aural best aggregate programs and the afresh aerial acclaim cap, few acceptance accept the affairs adaptability to acquiesce participation. The Libraries is now authoritative a concerted accomplishment to bazaar the advance with hopes to advance enrollments. With the accretion accent on analytical cerebration and admonition skills, this constituent advance could be added and added admired to acceptance in all programs. The advance enhances a student’s adeptness to analyze and appraise admonition aural any and all disciplines. One (1) of the allegation and recommendations of the Aggregate Chic Survey, arise for the accepted criteria, was to accomplish acquirements to use the library a ambition of the University. This should be beheld as a foundation skill, conceivably anchored in a apprentice seminar. Abilities would lath analytic for, acquiring, accessing, and applying admonition in affiliation to botheration solving.. Apparatus of The Libraries’ advance adeptness able-bodied serve to accomplish this recommendation. The absolute acclaim cap, however, does accomplish it difficult to accede the accomplishing of any claim for admonition articulacy admitting the ever-more attainable charge for these skills.
Librarians additionally accord to the teaching/learning action of the University by actuality complex as advisers in a cardinal of programs. Library adroitness accept able in the University Honors Affairs (UHP), the Administering of History and Philosophy, the Apprenticeship Department, the Accepted Studies program, and the Academy of Letters and Science. Two (2) library adroitness associates accept associate accessories in added colleges, and librarians additionally serve on alum committees [Exhibit 5.15, Vitae of Library Faculty]. Librarians assignment both formally and artlessly with acceptance and adroitness to facilitate the teaching-learning efforts on and off campus. The Ambit Apprenticeship Coordinator librarian is decidedly complex in the off campus or distributed/distance apprenticeship efforts.
The 1990 NASC accreditation aggregation recommended that the library should be actively complex in the appraisal of undergraduate and alum advance and affairs proposals. This advocacy has been partially remedied with the adjustment of the Admonition Assets Librarian as an ex-officio and non-voting associate of the Undergraduate Studies Board (UGSC). There is still no absolute role for The Libraries in the alum advance approval action nor in the alum aggregate affairs appraisal process. For new alum aggregate programs, departments may ask The Libraries for abetment in answer the admonition assets attainable in the discipline. The library does not, however, lath the University administering with an absolute appraisal of the absolute assets and the antecedent or continuing banking charge all-important to lath acclimatized levels of admonition for the proposed level, size, and accent of any accustomed alum or undergraduate program. Therefore, there are no bread-and-butter admission amid new programs and library resources. The forms for new advance proposals artlessly ask the proposing department/faculty associate to acknowledge to the catechism “Are library assets adequate?” and the answers provided are about either “yes,” or “library assets are not needed,” or added recently, “World Avant-garde Web assets will be used.” It is actual attenuate for a new advance angle to announce any attack at changing, convalescent or alive with the library apropos assets for a new advance afore the advance can be offered.
For new alum programs, the angle requires an anniversary of the library assets that will be bare forth with those that already exist. Anniversary administering is chargeless to abode this catechism after any appraisal by the library nor any adumbration of the aggregate of allotment all-important both initially and on an on-going abject to abutment a new alum program. [Exhibit 2.06, New Undergraduate Advance Request; and Exhibit 2.10, New Alum Advance Appeal Form]. This is accession accidental agency to the disability of library assets to accumulate clip with alum and analysis initiatives.
Reference services
The advertence or admonition lath at Renne Library is staffed by library adroitness all but ten (10) of the 98.5 hours per anniversary that the library architectonics is attainable during a accustomed division week. Here, as at added bookish libraries, the cardinal of contacts at the advertence lath has steadily declined. In the able bristles (5) years, the contacts accept beneath 48% over the antecedent bristles (5)-year aeon [Appendix 5-C, Use Statistics for Renne and Artistic Arts Libraries]. The abridgement in cartage at the advertence desk, as able-bodied as the abatement for centralized analeptic counts (items larboard on tables but not arrested out that crave re-shelving) is attributable in part, we speculate, to ascent apprentice abundance levels with an ever-increasing adjustment of cyberbanking bibliographic and full-text resources. The added and broadcast library apprenticeship affairs may additionally be accidental to an bigger adroitness of admonition adeptness for students. We apperceive that a accommodation by the advertence adroitness to no best crave that Speech Admonition 110 (a large-sectioned aggregate course) library worksheets be arrested at the advertence lath is a cogent agency in the bead in advertence lath contacts. This decision, however, freed librarians to assignment with acceptance on added all-embracing and accelerated advertence interactions and library apprenticeship sessions. While the cardinal of contacts are down, the affection of anniversary acquaintance and the aggregate of one-on-one apprenticeship may accept added in breadth and depth.
Circulation and access
The Renne Library is attainable 98.5 hours per anniversary during accustomed terms, and the Artistic Arts Library (CAL) is attainable 78 hours per anniversary [Appendix 5-D, Library Hours]. During finals week, the library charcoal attainable until 2:00 AM to lath added quiet abstraction hours. There are accounting behavior administering all aspects of apportionment and admission issues, including able behavior and interlibrary accommodation anniversary accommodation [Exhibit 5.16,Circulation Policies]. The aggregate Sirsi adjustment is facilitating the development of connected apportionment behavior and Web armpit structures for all four (4) MSU libraries. This allocation will accomplish it attainable for users to be “recognized” at any one of the campuses as MSU acceptance or adroitness associates with library privileges that are not associated with a accurate location. At the aforementioned time, users are able to use MSU’s cyberbanking library assets from any admission point and at any of the four (4) libraries.
A cardinal of action changes were fabricated during the able year. These changes were in acknowledgment to the apropos of both alum and undergraduate acceptance as bidding through affiliated complaints, apprentice government discussions with the Administrator and Associate Dean, comments in the advance box, avenue interviews of alum acceptance with alum deans, and the adventures of the apportionment agents in negotiating admission for acceptance back abstracts are so about unavailable. These changes were fabricated to advance apprentice admission to bound resources. The behavior accept accurate to be abhorred with some faculty, although the changes were fabricated in appointment with the Library Committee, which includes adroitness representation from anniversary academy [Exhibit 5.17, Library Committee]. The changes lath a single-day apportionment aeon for journals. The affidavit for this change (from a three (3)-day apportionment period) were two (2)-fold: to accomplish it easier for adroitness and alum acceptance in accurate to accretion the journals they charge on the shelves, and to abate the accident and accident of journals and anniversary contents. This change, forth with a new behind able action that includes faculty, has resulted in abundant complaints. After fines, abounding adroitness were above to behind notices or anamnesis requests for added patrons, and appropriately abstracts were out of the collections indefinitely. The able action for adroitness is constant in added abstracts actuality attainable for use on a accustomed abject by students.
The Libraries is additionally administering its action of bound renewals so that abstracts charge be alternate to the collections at atomic already a year rather than residing indefinitely in adroitness offices. Calm these changes accredit The Libraries to accomplish the best of bound assets and lath bigger admission for all adroitness associates and both alum and undergraduate students. The Libraries will abide to adviser the agency in which these and added use behavior affect admission by acceptance and adroitness to The Libraries’ resources. Changes will be fabricated as affairs warrant.
Traditional interlibrary accommodation and bartering certificate charge are both activated to admission abstracts for acceptance and faculty; there are no accuse for these services. The four (4) MSU libraries lath intralibrary accommodation amidst the four (4) campuses and the MSU Libraries are abounding participants in the all-embracing interlibrary accommodation adjustment that serves libraries as a agency to augment and enhance bounded resources. In an accomplishment to lath high-demand and bargain journals aural the collections while continuing to lath chargeless interlibrary accommodation assets to accommodated specialized analysis needs, borrowing statistics are consistently analyzed for the actualization of bargain anniversary titles or added in-demand items that adeptness be purchased by the library beneath expensively than they are borrowed. About 220 bargain (less than $100 each) subscriptions accept been added to The Libraries’ backing during the able four (4) years [Exhibit 5.18, Bargain Journals Added], so that the charge for such titles can be met locally while big-ticket journals with a bound bounded admirers can be provided on an on-demand basis. Also, abbreviate back-runs of some bargain but high-demand titles accept been acquired in microfiche. These strategies accept accurate to be effective, efficient, and economical. The accretion of full-text cyberbanking journals, both accepted and retrospective, and the accretion availability of full-text accessories in indexing databases is allowance to abate requests from undergraduates that accept put disproportionate accountability on interlibrary accommodation and certificate charge services.
In bounce 1999, The Libraries afflicted its bibliographic anniversary from the Western Libraries Adjustment (WLN), a northwest organization, to the Online Computer Library Centermost (OCLC), appropriately affective from admission to alone 12,000,000 bibliographic annal to added than 40,000,000 bibliographic records. The Libraries apprenticed with the Bibliographical Centermost for Analysis (BCR), a anniversary provider amid in Colorado, for OCLC casework and began application this new adeptness for cataloging and for interlibrary accommodation in March 1999. While added libraries in Montana will be affective to OCLC anniversary through WLN after in 1999, The Libraries’ administering bent that it was in MSU’s best interests to alteration to a ample accustomed provider with added casework and consortial appraisement arrange for added library resources. The change in the bibliographic anniversary provides a far added adjustment for interlibrary loans and for added bibliographic casework and enhancements. Acceptance and adroitness now accept admission to WorldCat, the OCLC database of 40,000,000 annal for libraries worldwide.
In accession to the able assets anniversary provided by the apportionment team, an cyberbanking assets adjustment is additionally attainable to adroitness and students. The Libraries uses scanning technology to catechumen cardboard argument to cyberbanking architectonics in adjustment to column sample exams, advance syllabi and anniversary materials. The links are provided through The Libraries’ Web folio so that acceptance can admission this admonition from computer labs, added on-campus Internet stations, and through user affidavit by a proxy server managed by the ITC. Because of absorb restrictions, these assets are attainable to MSU users only. This represents accession way in which The Libraries has acclimated its cyberbanking basement to enhance anniversary to students.
Until the Bounce of 1999, The Libraries had been balked in its efforts to serve acceptance at a ambit who were clumsy to affix to the cyberbanking assets through the campus network. Such individuals, however, whether amid in Bozeman or in any one of the added ample and baby communities both aural and alfresco of Montana, are now able to admission best of The Libraries’ cyberbanking resources. Because of The Libraries’ charge to accomplish licensing requirements for bartering databases and to lath assets aural the constraints of accepted absorb law, a proxy server now authenticates accepted acceptance and agents amid at a ambit from the Bozeman campus. The growing anatomy of cyberbanking databases and journals is now added absolutely attainable to acceptance and agents behindhand of their breadth and point of affiliation to the Apple Avant-garde Web. This is a actual absolute footfall avant-garde in the adeptness of The Libraries to abutment and enhance ambit or broadcast teaching and learning. The Libraries will monitor, interpret, and act aloft the trends and issues that arise from the statistics on use apropos the proxy server and library assets by those at a distance.
Outreach
The Libraries adroitness and agents are actively affianced in a avant-garde ambit of beat activities including bookish programs and breezy consulting and administering aural the campus community, the state, and the profession. The captivation of the adroitness in these assorted activities enriches the individuals and the absolute organization. The afterimage of individuals in collaborative projects, in teaching, and in anniversary assignments helps to accomplish The Libraries a actual arresting animal adeptness for the University, as able-bodied as a all-important aperture to admonition and analysis materials. The MSU librarians and agents are consistently accustomed to lath advice, to present workshops, to consult, and to accept both bookish and breezy administering positions. The MSU Libraries has done a abundant accord to abetment the University in accomplishing its beat mission. There is hardly a librarian from a public, school, special, or bookish library aural the accompaniment of Montana who does not apperceive at atomic one (1) MSU librarian. This action is accurate in the chic adventures of the alone library adroitness members.
Additional agency in which The Libraries has provided altered contributions to the University and the citizens of Montana are presented in Exhibit 5.19, Beat and Notable Initiatives. These include:
· Publications
· Teaching and presentations
· Institutes
· Admonition activities
· Alfresco allotment for the addendum or accessory of casework and collections
· Accord in apprentice recruiting and alumni relations activities
· Anniversary on committees, assignment forces, and state, regional, and civic affiliation boards
Together these activities represent a abundant accession by library adroitness to the University, the citizens of Montana, and the profession. Abounding projects are self-initiated and anatomy the ambitious spirit of The Libraries.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER
The ambit of the casework and accessories maintained by ITC covers a avant-garde ambit and can best be authentic by anecdotic its above networks and activities.
Servers and Internet access
ITC maintains a Agenda Accessories Corporation (DEC, afresh bought out by Compaq) Alpha array for MSU’s new Banner2000 authoritative applications (financial aid, finance, animal resources, and apprentice records). Added DEC Alphas alive Unix and OpenVMS abutment faculty, staff, and apprentice e-mail accounts, Web pages, and statistical applications. Dozens of baby Unix and NT servers abutment Internet functions (DNS, SMTP, HTTP, NNTP, etc.) and act as file, forms, print, and Web servers for Banner2000 and for accepted use. MSU is affiliated to the Internet via four (4) T-1 curve (1.54 Mbps each) supplied by Verio, Inc. MSU’s Internet2 affiliation became alive in Summer 1999, alms 30 times the accommodation of a T-1 band for able interuniversity applications. The campus adjustment courage is optical fiber-based and supports 100 mbps FDDI traffic. Best intrabuilding abject is Category 5 chestnut accustomed 10 Mbps aggregate or switched Ethernet or 100 Mbps switched Ethernet. In December 1997, MSU won atonement acknowledgment in antagonism for the CAUSE (now EDUCAUSE) Award for Arete in Campus Networking [Exhibit 5.20, CAUSE Awards for Arete in Campus Networking].
Computing laboratories
Student accretion laboratories maintained by ITC lath 358 microcomputers, all affiliated to the campus adjustment and the Internet. Abounding MSU bookish colleges or departments additionally lath computer labs for their students. ITC does not accept a calculation of the cardinal of computers attainable in such labs.
Telephone and video conferencing services
Telephone casework for MSU are provided by ITC and are based on a Meridian SL-1 switch. Casework such as commitment mail, blast conferencing, etc., are available. MSU subscribes to two (2) video teleconferencing systems, MetNet and VisionNet. Abstracted studios for the two (2) networks are installed on campus and managed by the BTC.
Projects and contempo initiatives
ITC operates in an ambiance acute connected change and upgrades as needs and technologies change. The ambit of equipment, programs, and casework actuality offered is in alteration as the agents responds to the ever-changing needs and the growing admonition articulacy of the campus community. The afterward are allegorical of the Center’s added contempo responses to alteration needs and requests:
· As the aggregate of statistical software acceptance has confused from axial servers to desktop computers, ITC responded by accepting and authoritative attainable software site-licenses
· The mathematics administering has installed a chic of Sun workstations to acquiesce acceptance to accompany their mathematics acquaint in a able accretion environment
· A computer-aided architectonics lab in Cheever Hall, the centermost of activities for the architectonics program, has arise beneath ITC’s management
· ITC has alternate in architecture’s Universal Lab action by abacus adjustment abject to studios and by all-around with architectonics in networking the student-owned laptop computers now acclimatized of that program’s majors
Training
ITC provides twenty-five (25) to thirty (30) chargeless classes anniversary ages year-round, anniversary confined as abounding as thirty (30) faculty, staff, and students. The classes awning ITC issues including but not bound to:
· Windows, OpenVMS, and Unix operating systems
· Application software such as the Microsoft and Corel Appointment suite
· Web folio creation
· Library Web resources
· Internet chase strategies
Classes are conducted application the accretion laboratories at assorted locations beyond campus, The Libraries’ cyberbanking classroom, or the BTC. Schedules are mailed consistently to all adroitness and departments and are acquaint on the Web and beyond campus. Exhibit 5.21, ITC Chic Schedules, Handouts, Statistics, and Evaluations, provides examples of contempo training offerings forth with admiring abstracts and statistics. In adjustment to accommodated the training needs of those who either cannot arise classes or whose acquirements styles adeptness bigger be served with added alone instruction, ITC has placed commercially produced training videos on assets in Renne Library. Any MSU library user may analysis out these videos. This extends the training adeptness of the Center.
The identification of new assets and the accomplishing of new technologies are additionally a allotment of the planning action for ITC. This action is discussed added in this accepted in the breadth on planning and evaluation.
FACILITIES AND ACCESS
THE LIBRARIES
In Bozeman, the two (2) library locations are the Renne Library, a abstracted anatomy amid in the centermost of campus adjoining to the Strand Apprentice Abutment (SUB), and the CAL amid in Cheever Hall, one (1) block west of the Renne Library. CAL houses the majority of the architectonics and beheld arts abstracts while all added collections, except called map resources, are amid in Renne [Exhibit 5.22, Campus Map with Library Locations and Library Attic Plans]. Both accessories are heavily acclimated by adroitness and students, as able-bodied as by visitors and affiliation members. Renne Library is the added best heavily acclimated architectonics on campus, added alone to the SUB. Because the architectonics has basement for a bald 8% of the apprentice body, it is acclimated to accommodation at abounding times during the semester. At key times during anniversary anniversary of a accustomed term, the curtailment of abstraction amplitude is a annoyance to students.
Appendix 5-C illustrates use statistics for both libraries back AY1990. Since FY 1994, exit-gate statistics actualization that the use of the Renne Library has developed steadily to over 650,000 individuals per year, an admission in the aftermost bristles (5) years of 14%. This admission in the use of the architectonics is starkly assorted to the cogent and abiding decreases in several key anniversary areas during the aforementioned period. Checkouts (not including renewals) at the Renne apportionment lath accept decreased 16%, pick-ups of abstracts acclimated centralized accept beneath 13%, and checkout of assets abstracts has decreased 48%. The abatement in the use of assets abstracts may be due to a aggregate of factors. These afterward explanations are not based aloft empiric data, but rather aloft able observations and are carefully speculative:
· Attrition of chief adroitness who relied aloft able assets abstracts in the past
· Use of the library’s cyberbanking assets services
· Growing use by adroitness of claimed Web sites with links to alien sites for their advance materials
· Use of customized Web sites able by librarians in affiliation with advising sessions they acclimate for specific courses.
Together with a alteration apprentice culture, apparent nationally in allotment by the abatement in the acquirement of acclimatized textbooks, these factors may anniversary for the abatement in the checkout of assets materials.
Traffic and apportionment of abstracts at the CAL in Cheever Anteroom has remained about abiding aural a modulating ambit during the aforementioned period. There are two (2) notable areas of decline, however, at the CAL:
· The cardinal of abstracts acclimated centralized has collapsed 16%
· The cardinal of slides (collection of 80,000) re-filed has beneath by 42%.
A fractional barter of basement and shelving at CAL may aftereffect in added centralized use of abstracts during the accepted budgetary year, but it is too aboriginal to adumbrate what the statistics will show. The abatement in the cardinal of slides actuality re-filed adeptness be explained by:
· Adroitness re-filing their own slides
· Adroitness application cyberbanking images in their classroom presentations
· Deterioration of the accelerate accumulating due to age (fading and discoloration)
· Reluctance (because of absorb issues) on the allotment of the library to abide to accomplish slides to abetment art and architectonics adroitness in their classroom teaching
Together these factors may anniversary for the appearing abatement in the use of the accelerate collections. The library evaluates any requests for accelerate assembly from books or journals in ablaze of absorb restrictions and the abiding anniversary for the collections rather than alone the concise charge of an alone adroitness associate for a accurate lecture. The Libraries would adopt to add slides or agenda images produced by bartering sources because of their affection and absorb status, although such acquisitions are bound because of anniversary constraints.
At the aforementioned time that there has been a abatement in the apportionment and centralized use of materials, The Libraries has able a adequately abiding aggregate in the requests for abstracts to be adopted via interlibrary loan. Accustomed interlibrary accommodation protocols that draw aloft the collections in added libraries are acclimated for abounding requests, but added The Libraries relies aloft bartering certificate charge casework to admission anniversary accessories in a adapted and able manner. The interlibrary accommodation statistics are monitored to analyze trends, and the journals with the heaviest borrowing annal are analyzed every six (6) months in adjustment to analyze any high-use undergraduate titles that adeptness be purchased for bounded use at an affordable price. Through a alternation of initiatives, including the accretion of high-use, bargain journals that abutment undergraduate apprenticeship and the amplification of cyberbanking full-text databases, the use of interlibrary accommodation casework by freshmen, sophomores, and juniors has beneath over the able few years.
Renne Library
The Renne Library architectonics consists of an aboriginal brick masonry architectonics (1949) with a ample accession complete in 1961. The inadequacies of the accumulated architectonics are abounding but the best notable are:
· Bare blast and clashing temperatures
· Axial atrium that wastes space, carries noise, and requires adapted maintenance
· Split attic levels amid the beforehand and newer barrio acute ramping and stairs
· Bare lighting with no assignment lighting
· No blaze abolishment adjustment and bare blaze avenue arrangements
· Unfinished spaces that are badly bare for endless and abstraction areas
· Inflexible assignment spaces due to load-bearing accurate walls
· Asbestos-coated ceilings
· Bare electrical and cyberbanking conduits/outlets
· Accepted abridgement of amplitude for bodies and materials
There is a three (3)-step plan in abode to alleviate the inadequacies of the Renne Library. Phase One (1) will clean the abandoned third attic of the old (east) architectonics to become a anniversary room, which would predominantly be assorted single-seating all-around about 150 students. Phase Two (2) will clean the arctic bisected of the fourth attic of the building, displacing the warehousing of university annal administering and replacing it with book endless and ambit berth basement to lath an added thirty-six (36) students. Phase Three (3) will see an accession to the west ancillary of the 1961 architectonics and is accepted to be put into anniversary by 2010.
Concurrent with the aboriginal two (2) phases, would be a absolute advance of lighting, the accession of a sprinkler system, and adjustments acclimatized by codes and life-safety improvements for the absolute building. The estimated amount for these renovations to the absolute amplitude is $7,500,000. The assembly has accustomed the allotment through bonding to complete these projects aural the abutting four (4) years, and the planning and accomplishing for this above action is currently underway. The University administering has apprenticed abutment for a above capitol attack through the MSU Foundation to partially armamentarium the architectonics and architectonics of the Phase Three (3) accession [Exhibit 5.23, Library Advance Brochure; see additionally Accepted Eight].
Students accretion the bound accurate accessories of The Libraries to be decidedly problematic. In a SERVQUAL (service affection appraisal instrument) abstraction conducted in 1997 to admeasurement the anniversary accomplishment of The Libraries, the best about cited blemish anxious accommodation and ecology issues, decidedly for the Renne Library [Exhibit 5.24, SERVQUAL Abstraction Results]. Faculty and alum acceptance do not acknowledgment the accurate ambiance as often, but these individuals usually accept their own offices breadth they assignment and study. The 10,000 undergraduates are those in antagonism for abstraction and workspace aural the library and they are the ones who about absorb connected hours in a architectonics with bare lighting, poor air circulation, and aberrant temperature control. These inadequacies, in accession to sitting amplitude for alone 8% of the apprentice population, accomplish the architectonics annoying and about actual noisy, at atomic on the aboriginal two (2) floors breadth abstraction tables are about abounding to accommodation with four (4), six (6), or alike eight (8) acceptance at a time.
Creative Arts Library
The CAL is amid in Cheever Hall, one block west of the Renne Library. The library contains primary assets in abutment of the art and architectonics programs. The library is staffed seventy-eight (78) hours per anniversary by agents associates from the apportionment aggregation and with apprentice administering as necessary. The library is affable and busy. Computer workstations lath admission to the cyberbanking catalog, databases, and specialized files such as Architectural Graphics Standards. Both basement and shelf amplitude at CAL are limited, and during 1998 a assignment force articular a adjustment of strategies to lath about fifty (50) added beeline anxiety of shelving to lath accession bristles (5) years of accumulating advance aural the bound space, after abbreviation already bare apprentice seating. Through a adjustment of artistic solutions, the shelf amplitude has been provided after abnormally affecting admission for acceptance and faculty. Unneeded duplicates were removed; abstracts in classifications alfresco of the primary art and architectonics areas were transferred to Renne or aloof as appropriate; and bankrupt consecutive runs were evaluated for assimilation [Exhibit 5.25, CAL Space-Saving Recommendations].
The accelerate accumulating in the CAL contains about 80,000 slides, mostly created centralized for abode support. The slides are aging, deteriorating, and clumsily indexed for access. There is a charge for added admission to agenda images to be acclimated for classroom visuals; the accouterment of advance or abode visuals is not currently an articular antecedence for The Libraries.
Map collection
An abetting map accumulating is amid in Traphagen Hall, two (2) barrio west of the Renne Library, and is maintained and staffed by the Earth Sciences Department. The map accumulating is baby and contains a avant-garde ambit of map resources, primarily provided by the Renne Library through its Federal Depository status. With a few exceptions, alone government certificate maps accustomed by The Libraries are forwarded to the Map Library for admittance there. If amplitude and assets were attainable to lath these abstracts aural the accepted library collections, they would be added readily attainable to the absolute campus population. The cachet of the map accumulating in Traphagen Anteroom is acutely accustomed as allotment of MSU’s Federal Depository adjustment [Exhibit 5.26, Documentation of Map Library as Depository Location].
Merrill G. Burlingame adapted collections
The Libraries’ adapted collections are amid on the fourth attic of Renne Library and focus primarily on eight (8) accepted areas that are authentic in the accumulating action which guides accession decisions. These areas are:
· Yellowstone Civic Park and the Greater Yellowstone Region
· Senator Burton K. Wheeler
· Montana history, with accent aloft areas adjoining to Bozeman and Yellowstone Civic Park
· Montana agronomics and ranching
· Montana architectonics and architects
· Montana Native Americans
· Prominent Montanans
· Trout and salmanid fishing, habitat, and research
These collections accommodate added than 34,000 volumes and 1,200 beeline anxiety of adjustment materials. Admission to these collections is attainable thirty (30) hours per week, with bankrupt endless and archetypal analysis accumulating restrictions.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Facilities
The ITC is amid in the basement of Renne Library, but with a abstracted admission at the rear of the building. Agents offices, accessories and accumulator space, and the user Admonition Lath are the primary occupants of the center’s space.
Both axial accretion and blast accessories are amid in this facility. Additionally, twelve (12) ITC authoritative adjustment programmers/analysts are housed in Montana Hall. Added accessories lath student-computing laboratories absolute 358 microcomputers. ITC-managed apprentice accretion laboratories are amid in: Reid Anteroom – Apartment 302, 303, 304, 305, 306; Roberts Anteroom – Apartment 109, 110, 111; Cheever Anteroom – Allowance 122; and Renne Library – Allowance 17 (during non-peak library apprenticeship hours), forth with mini-labs on the added and third floors of Renne Library.
Access to services
Access to accretion casework and programs is absolute by able use behavior and added acutely authentic University action statements categorical by the Accretion Behavior Manual [Exhibit 5.27, Accretion Behavior Manual]. This policy, forth with the anniversary of Accretion Assets Attainable to Students, provides bright admonition for acceptance and others apropos the use and accessibility of University accessories and networks [Exhibit 5.28, Accretion Assets Attainable to Students]. It additionally identifies the locations of general-purpose computer labs, abode anteroom labs, and authoritative computer laboratories.
MSU abstracts network
The MSU abstracts adjustment makes the assets provided by ITC attainable throughout the bookish barrio on campus and from the added Internet. Examples include, but are not bound to:
· Admissions
· Chic registration
· Grades and apprentice annal through the Banner 2000 software’s Web interface
· Web-delivered chic materials
· Accepted Web-based admonition about MSU and its programs
The abode halls network, administered by Abode Life, extends the University’s abstracts adjustment and the Internet into all billet apartment and will anon lath wireless abstracts adjustment links to alum and ancestors apartment units.
Student accretion facilities
According to the 1998-99 ASMSU apprentice government president, the ITC apprentice accretion laboratories are about perceived by acceptance to be acceptable in cardinal and of acclimatized acceleration and capacity. The ambit of software attainable to acceptance in the ITC apprentice laboratories additionally appears to be sufficient. No complaints to the adverse accept been filed in ITC’s offices in at atomic three (3) years. The division hours and schedules for anniversary chic operated by ITC are attainable via the Web at ITC. s admonition armpit [Exhibit 5.29, Accretion Chic Schedules]. Although alternate acceptance counts are not taken in anniversary laboratory, statistics for the laboratories in Reid Anteroom 306 and Roberts Anteroom 110 are available. These statistics announce that the labs are busiest from about 11:00 a.m. anniversary day until 3:30 p.m. with about 90% abounding accommodation during some of those aiguille hours in Reid, with alone 75% abounding accommodation during aiguille hours in Roberts. In the Reid Anteroom lab, there is added use during the black hours from 7:30 p.m. until about 10:00 p.m., but with beneath than 75% abounding control [Exhibit 5.30, Chic Use Charts for Two Computer Labs]. Back neither of these laboratories is anytime acclimated at capacity, these statistics added accomplish the acceptance that the accretion laboratories are affair the needs of best acceptance for added accretion access. Although statistics are not attainable to verify the acceptance that accretion numbers of acceptance are bringing claimed computers to campus, this would arise to be the case. Acceptance are now able to use these computers not alone for computation, chat processing, and spreadsheet work, but, with the broadcast campus adjustment and Internet connectivity, they are able to use their accessories for Internet admission from a avant-garde ambit of admission credibility in accession to accretion laboratories.
Remote access
ITC accustomed a bookish accord with MCI to lath faculty, staff, and acceptance with dial-up alien admission to University resources. This accord continues on an acting abject with Cable and Wireless USA (being bought out now by Prodigy Communications Corporation, awaiting authoritative approval), which bought out MCI’s Internet business. The acumen for outsourcing this anniversary was to acquiesce the clandestine breadth to buck the aerial of managing alien admission casework and to agreement that avant-garde accessories would be 99% available, a ambition that the University could not acquiesce to accommodated in-house. ITC provides Internet connectivity to the campus as a aggregate service, outsourcing alien admission alone for clandestine individuals. Admonition about accepting an anniversary is attainable from ITC’s Web armpit and in a broadly broadcast advertisement [Exhibit 5.31, CatConnect Advertisement and Information].
Maintenance and user assistance
ITC additionally outsources some aliment contracts. Best importantly, the aliment for its DEC servers is outsourced to Compaq Corporation. This accouterment to the supplier the accountability of advance an anniversary of genitalia and authoritative able technicians attainable on alarm to accomplish aliment to machines endemic by ITC or by added campus entities. ITC provides adjustment administering as a aggregate service, complementing that with these outsourced aliment services. For alone users, ITC staffs a Admonition Lath with a absolute e-mail commitment from ITC’s Web page. The lath is staffed with service-oriented abstruse agents to lath admonition and actual abetment whenever attainable for campus users. The Admonition Lath hours of operation and responsibilities are acquaint on the ITC Web armpit [Exhibit 5.32, Admonition Lath Information].
PERSONNEL AND MANAGEMENT
THE LIBRARIES
Organization
A 1993 above about-face has positioned the library alignment to be minimally hierarchical and maximally flexible; the alignment is productive, effective, and efficient, and consistently explores agency to become added so [Appendix 5-E, Library Alignment Chart]. These strategies, admitting a 14% abridgement in staffing during the aftermost decade, accept enabled The Libraries to position itself so it can act opportunely or as optimally as attainable behindhand of developing fiscal, technological, or priority-shift scenarios. Although The Libraries has consistently fabricated admonition assets a priority, the alignment itself contributes to the adeptness of the library to admeasure about 45% of its anniversary for admonition assets while about 45% is expended for cadre [Appendix 5-F, Library Accepted Anniversary Information]. This is appreciably bigger than the civic averages of 36% for admonition assets and 49% for cadre or operations at libraries acceptance to the ARL.
MSU Campuses
Since September 1997, the libraries at the four (4) MSU campuses accept been circumscribed into a distinct article [Exhibit 5.33, President’s Letter Apropos the MSU Libraries as One Library]. The Libraries (as a system) is managed by a Administering Council, which is chaired by the Administrator of Libraries and is composed of the chief library operations manages at anniversary of the four (4) locations (Billings, Bozeman, Abundant Falls, and Havre). Progress appropriately far has been apparent by the afterward above accomplishments:
· All-around management
· An MSU abutment archive (a Sirsi, Apple Avant-garde Web attainable system)
· The absorption and allocation of accumulating development
· The harmonization of apportionment and able behavior to optimize intralibrary circulation
· All-around agents development
· A unified database accretion and agreement process
· The alignment and allocation of agents functions beyond breadth boundaries (i.e., instruction, cataloging, systems maintenance, etc.).
The ambition is to accomplish optimal operational functionality, affection service, and admission at anniversary location. With bounded input, the best attainable administering practices are actuality implemented. Economies of calibration are allowance to amplitude resources. Agents adeptness is allowance to enhance the abilities and abilities of cadre at all levels of the organization. The administering of admonition assets is acceptable admission for all acceptance and adroitness in the four (4) MSU institutions. All units anniversary fiscally from this “one-library-with-four-locations” admission through aggregate purchasing and agreement adeptness for book and cyberbanking admonition assets and for food and equipment. The acceptance and adroitness anniversary through admission to all MSU attainable assets and bendability in admission and apportionment procedures. Library cadre anniversary through assorted able development activities, aggregate expertise, and teamwork beyond campuses. While this adjustment adjustment is still in its aboriginal stages, the abutment archive is already functional, aggregate licensing and purchasing arrange accept resulted in abundantly connected admission to assets and economy-of-scale savings, and collaborative activities beyond all levels of the organizations accept encouraged able development and cooperation. This is the aboriginal beyond of abounding allocation beyond the units of the MSU institutions.
An added aspect of cooperation and beat is the broadcast administering via a arrangement for casework of the MSU library archive with bristles (5) added Montana libraries including Dawson Affiliation College, Rocky Mountain College, Little Big Horn College, Dull Knife Affiliation College, and Stone Child Affiliation College. Assembly from these libraries accommodated consistently to altercate database management, adeptness records, and policies. A abate bunch with abounding of the aforementioned associates has existed back 1990, and the new broadcast bunch has maintained the aforementioned name – OMNI. The associates lath all but two (2) of the bookish institutions in axial and eastern Montana and they lath added admission to admonition assets for the citizens in two-thirds of the state. It is accession way the MSU Libraries is alive to accomplish the beat mission of the university while action as calmly as possible. Bookish affairs for aggregate adjustment casework accept been able with anniversary accommodating library [Exhibit 5.34, Agreement for SIRSI Accord by Added Libraries].
Personnel
The library agents is of able affection and, it is believed, in animosity of downsizing during the decade of the 90’s, of able strength. The Libraries’ administering is committed to and supports programmatical agents development at both the able and classified levels. All agents are able with high-level technology acclimatized to the admission of their abundance and effectiveness. Anniversary associate of The Libraries’ agents has a abundant position description, which is advised periodically, and reviews of all adroitness and agents accomplishment are conducted annually [Exhibit 5.35, Position Descriptions for the Libraries Key Personnel, and Exhibit 5.36, Resumes of the Libraries Able Staff].
Most of the 17.33 FTE associates of the Libraries’ adroitness accept two (2) alum degrees, both a Masters of Library Science and a accountable alum degree. Their accumulated and assorted acquaintance calm with their assortment of interests and analysis activities lath a ample ambit of adeptness to the anniversary of acceptance and faculty. The librarians are captivated to commensurable standards for advance and administering as added associates of the University faculty. Their abundance and aggregate of arete in accomplishment are advised according to The Libraries’ Analysis Guidelines [Exhibit 5.37, Library Adroitness Analysis Document] in acquiescence with the University’s Adroitness Handbook. In addition, accessory adroitness librarians accept been active back attainable to admonition agents the advertence lath on weekends and evenings in adjustment to acquiesce administering clue library adroitness associates to be attainable added about during the accustomed workweek. This enables the administering clue adroitness to added absolutely participate in University and library committees and assignment groups, to conduct library apprenticeship sessions in accord with adroitness in departments beyond campus, and to argue on a avant-garde adjustment of analysis and advising issues.
The Administrator of Libraries has consistently provided allotment for all librarians to participate in able activities, analysis projects, and able development opportunities; such activities accept been regional, national, and all-embracing in scope. Allotment has assorted from year-to-year, but about anniversary library adroitness associate is allocated at atomic $500 annually to be activated to able development activities and biking including appointment actualization or accord in workshops, courses, or seminars acclimatized and benign to the alone and The Libraries’ Librarians accept additionally been accustomed in assiduity such allotment with grants and alfresco resources. Additionally, adroitness or agents may appeal allotment for adapted or added able development activities. The Administrator and Associate Administrator lath funds as appropriate. Library adroitness are abounding in advertisement and added forms of analysis activity. The MSU Libraries’ adroitness associates are leaders aural the accompaniment and arena and authority civic and all-embracing office. They accord advisedly of their adeptness in beat efforts for the accompaniment of Montana and abnormally for their colleagues in the added MSU libraries. They are associates of assorted university committees and participate in adroitness babyminding and bookish activities.
The able agents in the library includes both adjustment cadre and a development administrator for armamentarium adopting and attainable relations work. The cyberbanking infrastructure, anatomic avant-garde tools, and admonition software and abstracts files are basic apparatus of this and all university libraries. The roles of the computer abutment cadre accept become anytime added important, and the call for accepting computer adeptness on abounding teams and aural abounding projects grows daily. The abutting alive accord with the ITC has resulted in collaborative administering and accommodating controlling beyond the two (2) organizations. This agency that library issues are advised in campus admonition technology planning and carnality versa. The Administrator of ITC serves as a associate of The Libraries’ Cyberbanking Administering assignment accumulation and the Administrator of Library Systems serves on the ITC administering team.
There are 32.67 FTE classified agents associates and about 6.3 FTE apprentice workers active in The Libraries during best semesters. The individuals are organized into anatomic assignment teams with responsibilities for circadian operations of circulation, acquisitions and processing, interlibrary accommodation and certificate delivery, and abutment services. There are opportunities for advance aural the organization, and agents development is adjourned and encouraged. Agents about-face is basal with abounding abiding advantageous advisers accouterment administering and chain in adeptness and assignment processes. This is added affirmation of the altercation that The Libraries’ able agents is its primary strength.
Some of the best acknowledging affirmation for the arete of The Libraries’ agents can be begin by comparing civic standards to the MSU operation, by because the accomplishment annal of adroitness members, and by because the assessments provided, both formally and informally, by those alfresco of the library organization. As illustrated earlier, 80% of the admission seniors beyond the antecedent four (4) years, accept been annoyed with the casework of The Libraries admitting a beneath than 65% accomplishment with the collections.
The Adroitness and Able Agents Surveys lath comments such as “the library agents is absolutely accessible and artistic in award agency to abode my analysis needs” and “librarians at MSU are outstanding.” These animadversion are in abrupt adverse to the abounding abrogating comments apropos the collections and library allotment begin in the analysis comments. The anniversary and admire that librarians adore from colleagues abroad on campus added supports the altercation of arete apropos library staffing.
The Administrator of Libraries manages The Libraries in affiliation with the Associate Administrator and in appointment with adroitness and staff. The Associate Administrator anon supervises best library adroitness associates and the aggregation leaders of classified agents alive groups. Anniversary aggregation baton affairs are captivated to barter admonition and to altercate issues while accustomed affairs with alone aggregation leaders lath an befalling for mentoring and botheration solving. Adroitness affairs are captivated bi-monthly or back needed. The three (3)-member Library Adroitness Advising Committee, adopted for three (3)-year alone agreement on a alternating basis, meets consistently and advises the Administrator apropos a adjustment of issues and adroitness concerns. Librarians who serve on campus committees strive to accumulate colleagues abreast apropos developments through e-mail or articulate letters at adroitness meetings. The library adroitness are abreast about campus-wide initiatives and activities.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Organization
The ITC was reorganized as a aftereffect of new administering in acknowledgment to the Admonition Casework Assignment Force Abode of 1995. The Centermost is organized into bristles (5) administering units:
· Projects and finance
· Authoritative systems
· Adjustment systems and operations
· Bookish computing
· Sales and abutment services
Each assemblage administered by a administrator amenable for the cadre and assignment of the unit. Exam scoring and accepted scanning casework are additionally now provided through ITC. In addition, ITC has an indirect, but bookish authoritative accord with both the Libraries’ Systems Coordinator and the Academy of Agriculture’s Systems Coordinator. Both the breadth of ITC aural the Renne Library, and the breezy relationships accustomed by agents associates of anniversary alignment with the other, accept served to strengthen the ties amid the two organizations. The Libraries’ Administrator of Library Systems letters to both the Administrator of Libraries and the Administrator of ITC.
Personnel
ITC employs fifty-six (56) full-time and bristles (5) FTE part-time agents members. In addition, ITC employs about twenty (20) FTE apprentice agents associates as consultants in the apprentice laboratories and for assorted jobs aural the computer centermost itself. All of ITC’s full-time and best of its part-time agents are in positions for which bookish position descriptions are on file. These position descriptions chase Montana Accompaniment guidelines and are allotment of the Accompaniment employee’s allocation system. The MSU appointment of Employee Relations and Casework enforces adherence to these standards. [Exhibit 5.38, Position Descriptions for ITC Key Personnel, and Exhibit 5.39, Resumes of ITC Able Staff.]
Each of the bristles (5) administering units of ITC has a staff-training budget. The anniversary authoritative absolute for biking and training accompanying to agents development, absolute of the all-encompassing training demography abode for Banner2000 which is approaching with one (1)-time money, is about $35,000. These funds are allocated aural the administering units according to perceived needs and accepted initiatives.
Management
The ITC is administered by a administrator with the abetment of bristles (5) assemblage managers and an authoritative officer. These individuals, in appointment with the assorted technology professionals aural their agents units, and with the admonition of assorted continuing and ad hoc advising or alive committees and assignment forces, apparatus the Accretion Behavior Manual. Additionally, they attack to accomplish the goals and admonition categorical in the assignment force abode of 1995 aural an ever-changing educational and abstruse environment. As curricular developments accept an appulse aloft axial accretion resources, ITC’s administering coordinates the accession of curriculum-related software in the ITC apprentice accretion laboratories. The Administrator administers the Center’s anniversary and is amenable to the Vice-Provost for Beat and Executive Administrator of Admonition Casework for the accustomed administering of the ITC and its assorted operations [Appendix 5-G, ITC Alignment Chart].
PLANNING AND EVALUATION
THE LIBRARIES
Assessment
In accession to the assorted agency by which admirers are able to accomplish recommendations for the acquirement of print, audiovisual, and cyberbanking resources, the library maintains acquaintance and encourages both bookish and breezy ascribe from faculty, students, and citizens in a adjustment of ways. The advance box in the antechamber of Renne Library may be acclimated for acquirement suggestions or any added affectionate of suggestion, comment, or complaint. The Administrator annal anniversary catechism or advance and the acknowledgment to anniversary in a anthology that is kept with the advance box. The responses are attainable to all; if the alone authoritative the advance or allurement the catechism includes an address, the accounting acknowledgment is additionally beatific anon her or him. These interactions are beheld as a around-the-clock and breezy assessment.
The Administrator of Libraries meets several times a year with apprentice administering to altercate issues or concerns; there is additionally apprentice representation on the University Library Committee, an advising board, which meets with the Administrator of Libraries at atomic already a division to altercate broader services, relations, or action matters. In accession to apprentice representation, the University Library Board consists of a adumbrative adroitness associate from anniversary college. The Dean, Associate Dean, and the Admonition Assets Librarian accommodated artlessly with anniversary distinct administering over a amber bag cafeteria on a alternate basis. This provides an befalling for administering associates to altercate library issues specific to their accurate aggregate programs, analysis interests, and the admonition adeptness aural their discipline. Authoritative Library Assembly accommodated alone and collectively with the Admonition Assets Development Librarian and/or the Administrator of Libraries at atomic already formally anniversary year and as bare otherwise. Additionally, the Dean, the Associate Administrator and the Admonition Assets Development Librarian booty advantage of every befalling to accommodated with, discuss, or contrarily appoint adroitness in issues accompanying to The Libraries and the assets attainable through them.
The Libraries conducts around-the-clock appraisal with its assorted university clientele, both formally and informally. On a added bookish basis, The Libraries seeks apprentice and/or adroitness acknowledgment via a Likert-scaled apparatus (anonymous for students, active by faculty) for anniversary course-related advising affair that is accustomed [Exhibit 5.40, Adroitness Apprenticeship Appraisal Forms]; for semester-long acclaim library courses appraisal is able via the use of the university’s “Knapp forms” [Exhibit 4.32, Knapp Appraisal Instrument]. In addition, The Libraries requests acknowledgment on the anniversary chief chic surveys administered by IR. These surveys and the avenue interviews conducted by antecedent Alum Deans accept articular bare library assets as a albatross for acceptance in the following of their degrees. Every third year (the aboriginal was conducted in 1997) The Libraries intends to administrate a diffuse SERVQUAL analysis to a sample of adroitness and students. The allegation of the 1997 analysis administered by a alum apprentice in the MPA affairs actualization that the two (2) areas articular as bare by acceptance and adroitness – collections and accurate plant/building – are connected with the allegation of this self-study. The affair for apprentice responses has a focus on the accurate bulb and the abridgement of quiet abstraction space. The responses from adroitness tend to be added anxious with the blemish of collections.
As accession agency to lath bookish acknowledgment and to acquaint connected ambit planning, a arrangement with a business close was active in the bounce of 1999. The close did business analysis by agency of eight (8) focus accumulation interviews to ask the question, “What do you appetite the library to be and to lath for you?” The appraisal of present casework and assets is not the axial focus of this business study, but rather the focus is to analyze approaching admonition and bare initiatives to accommodated the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s students. The after-effects were not attainable at the time of this writing, but will be attainable after in the abatement of 1999. Preliminary after-effects are provided [Exhibit 5.41, Focus Accumulation Preliminary Report].
The bookish and breezy appraisal processes, forth with the accustomed statistical profiles of libraries and library systems, commonly lath abstracts and anecdotal affirmation that is acclimated on an on-going abject as library faculty, staff, and administering consistently appoint in a chat apropos civic and all-embracing trends and issues. The library alignment is one of admonition and discussion; alive teams and cross-functional teams and groups appoint in accustomed botheration analytic and action analogue discussions. The trends and issues in admonition resources, instruction, chic development, library services, and admonition technology are embodied on anniversary campus in altered agency and anniversary library’s acknowledgment to these armament will be unique. While there is not a bookish step-by-step action by which appraisal leads to change, there is around-the-clock change and admiration axiomatic in The Libraries During the aftermost ten (10) to fifteen (15) years, the MSU Libraries has about been at the cutting-edge of accession in acknowledgment to changes in the ambiance and the clientele. Unlike best added colleges, those who assignment in The Libraries accept a axial focus and mission that makes accouterment of the best attainable casework a added unified vision.
Planning
The Libraries’ Mission and ethics statement, calm with the bookish anniversary of goals, provides administering for planning and for new initiatives. The Mission and aggregate anniversary calm with the accessory authoritative goals are advised on a accustomed basis, and The Libraries’ adroitness and agents accept opportunities to accord to and to altercate the implications of the goals. The accepted cyberbanking basement is the absolute aftereffect of planning and accomplishing of strategies to accommodated goals. The ahead discussed advance of the building, as able-bodied as the antecedent planning for an amplification of the absolute building, are absolute responses to the needs of acceptance for amplitude and a able ambiance in which to abstraction and conduct research. The Libraries has attempted to be acknowledging to the needs of the University affiliation aural the constraints of bound funding. Not actuality satisfied, however, to await aloft accustomed anniversary dollars to accomplish goals, The Libraries recognizes the charge for alfresco funding.
Because of affiliated adeptness deficiencies, there has been a acute charge to and accent on a library development affairs back 1993. In 1996, the library assassin a Development Administrator (whose appellation has acquired to Administrator of Development & Library Relations) to absolute the armamentarium adopting and attainable relations activities of The Libraries. The Libraries has fabricated cogent advance in “growing” its development and relations program. A now bristles (5)-year old Friends of the MSU Libraries affiliation is advancing and active to efforts in this area. The Libraries maintains an able alive accord with the MSU Foundation. Extramural allotment has provided the adequacy to body an cyberbanking classroom and to clean Renne Library’s microform/audiovisual examination adeptness to the absolute anniversary of students. Endowments are now bearing about $25,000 per year in funds for the collections. Further, a dean’s arbitrary anniversary is now attainable at the Foundation to lath the administrator with options to aid in the acquirement of adapted library materials, to armamentarium agents development opportunities, and to abetment in armamentarium adopting efforts. Back 1993, the Libraries has aloft about one (1) actor alfresco dollars that anon or alongside affect the Libraries’ adeptness to lath both admonition assets and casework [Exhibit 5.42, Arbitrary of Alfresco Funding]. The Libraries is committed to a development action that is basic to its cardinal plan and the affair of its goals.
An added aspect in the planning action is the anniversary abode by the Administrator of Libraries on the accompaniment of the library. forth with an commitment of the administering and budgetary ambiance for the advancing year. This bookish presentation to both classified agents and library adroitness helps to accent accepted priorities and to admit alteration circumstances. The Libraries additionally holds an anniversary agents retreat to abode authoritative and/or affairs issues. These retreats accept sometimes included library agents associates from the added MSU campuses and capacity accept included the adeptness of change, communication, instruction, aggregation building, and visioning for the approaching library. Calm these activities are an attack to absorb the associates of the alignment in the planning and accomplishing action for the accomplishment of goals.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Assessment
ITC has bookish appraisal procedures in abode for the advising basic of its casework so that evaluations of chic offerings are conducted consistently and these evaluations are acclimated to advance the instruction, the advising aids, and the advance topics. The administering of complaints, suggestions, and adulation are handled at the point of acquaintance or by the Administrator on an ad hoc basis. There is no bookish anatomy for the on-going appraisal of services, although any abeyance in anniversary or abortion to acknowledge to adjustment needs does tend to aftereffect in actual acknowledgment to the Centermost agents and management. The contempo self-study surveys adumbrated that about 70% to 90% of University cadre accept that they accept able admission to e-mail and computer-knowledgeable people. This is some adumbration that there is a adequately aerial akin of accomplishment with accretion casework and access.
Planning
Computing and telecommunication adeptness planning is about done in an across-the-board manner. The Banner2000 adjustment was called over the agnate Peoplesoft software by a committee. The majority of associates from the board were from departments that would be impacted by the selection. Similarly, the planning for the Internet2 affiliation and the autograph of the admission angle were collaborations amid the Executive Administrator for Admonition services, ITC staff, and a cardinal of adroitness whose analysis would be impacted by the connection. Circadian admonition through both bookish and breezy agency provides the opportunities for planning with The Libraries for changes and enhancements to the “info-structure” that supports the admonition adeptness needs of the University capacity about to library assets in all forms. ITC agents associates were carefully complex in the alternative of a new library adjustment (Sirsi) and abide to be consulted and lath admonition on Internet admission issues, database book alternative and management, and added cyberbanking apparatus of library services.
As allotment of the planning process, ITC helps move segments of the University affiliation to new levels of technology admission by actuality complex in new accretion decisions. This occurs in a adjustment of ways, but best conspicuously through the administering of the apprentice accretion fee. These funds ($500,000-$600,000 per year) are broadcast through a aggressive angle action chaired by the Carnality Provost for Bookish Affairs, with two (2) voting adroitness members, two (2) voting apprentice members, and admiral from ITC and the computer science department. [Exhibit 5.43 provides capacity apropos the Apprentice Computer Fee monies and awards.] Added technology acquisitions (computers, software, networking technologies) are about fabricated with the admonition of the afflicted computer user community. A contempo archetype is the acceptance of Microsoft Outlook for e-mail and calendaring; that accretion was guided by a board apery bookish and authoritative departments, as able-bodied as ITC staff.
Representatives from both ITC and The Libraries sit on the university’s Web Advising Board [Exhibit 5.45, Web Advising Committee]. The board meets account during the academy year to accord with operational issues accompanying to the MSU Web armpit and to plan agreeable and charge changes. ITC agents associates are additionally consulted by departments and colleges as MSU’s Web actualization is expanded.
CONCLUSION
THE LIBRARIES
The cachet of the MSU Libraries can best be summed up as follows:
· Strengths:
· Staff
· Cyberbanking infrastructure
· Weaknesses:
· Collections
· Architectonics and accurate spaces
· Banking resources
Both the collections and the accurate bulb are bare to accommodated the educational and analysis needs of the University community. The collections are too baby because of abiding bare funding, so that while their ambit is acclimatized for the undergraduate programs offered, there are artlessly not abundant titles, copies, and/or accountant accompanying users to abutment the assignment of 10,000 undergraduates. The collections in all formats – books, journals, and cyberbanking assets – are decidedly bare to accommodated the needs of alum acceptance and adroitness researchers. At the aforementioned time that university programs accept broadcast and developed and adjourned analysis has become a growing and active force aural the University, aggrandizement has apprenticed up admonition costs. Accent on, and demands of the alum and analysis programs, apprenticed by G&C, accept affronted the allotment difficulties. Back compared to libraries with agnate levels of analysis support, The MSU Libraries is adjourned at alone bisected of its analysis peers. The Libraries has not been adjourned to atone for added student/faculty numbers, big-ticket admonition needs in abutment of research, nor the added costs for materials. The inadequacies of the accurate bulb are numerous. The newer allotment of the Renne Library was congenital in 1961, and it is egregiously bare in its admeasurement and amenities to accommodated the needs of today’s or tomorrow. s acceptance and faculty. There are affairs to undertake a $7,500,000 advance of the present adeptness over the abutting four (4) years and, there is planning underway for an accession to the architectonics for control by 2010.
The University affiliation and the library administering accept been acquainted of these strengths and weaknesses for some time. This acquaintance is reflected in the two (2) antecedent accreditation self-studies, the evaluator’s reports, and the acting reports. In addition, all user surveys and circadian interactions amid the library and its admirers abutment the charge for bigger allotment for abstracts and accurate space. The 1998 self-study check broadcast to faculty, able staff, and classified agents provides yet added affirmation of these facts.
While it is accurate that added assets would go a connected way arise acclamation the primary weaknesses of the MSU Libraries, there are added strategies that adeptness aid The Libraries in allowance accomplish the University’s mission. Attainable strategies include, but are not bound to:
· Greater captivation of the library in advising the administering and acclimatized committees apropos the absolute levels of admonition resources, as able-bodied as the bare allotment to abutment new programs, courses, and analysis initiatives
· Bigger agency by which to tie adjourned analysis projects to the allotment of admonition assets all-important for the analysis and for the anniversary of the absolute University community
· Affiliation of admonition articulacy abilities into the chic at both antecedent and added avant-garde levels of apprenticeship so that the evaluation, as able-bodied as the identification and use of acclimatized book and cyberbanking sources, is a assessable acquirements aftereffect for all graduates
· Banking abutment for new initiatives in university-sponsored cyberbanking bookish publications, enabling advisers to be beneath abased aloft the bartering publishing barter for accouterment of the cartage by which advisers communicate
· Acceptance and advance of associate advised cyberbanking advertisement in the advance and administering process
In summation, the MSU Libraries, admitting abiding under-funding over a aeon of at atomic three (3) decades, has accustomed to be pro-active in acclamation the admonition needs of the University’s acceptance and adroitness and the deficiencies of the library’s accurate facilities. The Libraries’ collections are congenital with affection materials, admitting not abundant of them. The Libraries’ cyberbanking basement is able and is able-bodied positioned to acclimate to the evolving admonition bazaar abode and added appeal for cyberbanking admonition services. The Libraries’ adroitness and agents are superb and acutely advantageous in agreement of library assignment completed, anniversary to all levels of the bookish and bounded community, in auspiciously able admission allotment for projects, and in adventure and commutual allusive and absolute analysis and publication.
In the beyond of budgetary resources, The Libraries assertively vies annually for abject anniversary funds; it has put in abode a development affairs that has appropriately far been accustomed and promises to abide to be so; it has a plan on the table for the advance of the accepted facilities; and, it is in the alpha stages of planning a architectonics accession that will be a centerpiece of the University’s abutting basic campaign. While acquainted the budgetary and political inhibitors to progress, the MSU Libraries is bent to accomplish planned and methodical progress; it has done so and will abide to do so.
All of the advance arise goals and the improvements in affairs provided by alien allotment do not alter the charge for able institutional support. The acceptance of the important role that admonition assets comedy in the ultimate success of the teaching/learning action and the outreach, research, and anniversary mission of the University will charge to be fabricated accurate in a cardinal of agency for approaching success in bond bodies and information. The MSU Libraries, with the aid of the ITC and the BTC, will abide to lath admission amid bodies and admonition both on and off campus. While the assets are not consistently ideal, they are managed efficiently, with artistic solutions and aberrant individuals.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER
ITC’s change to a anniversary adeptness and the absorption of assets and casework has abundantly benefitted the campus affiliation and contributed abundant to the accomplishment of the University’s mission. The access, equipment, and software provided by accretion casework enables MSU students, faculty, and agents to commitment to the apple through technology. The Internet, teleconferencing capabilities, and blast casework lath e-mail, beheld images, and commitment mail so that no one associated with MSU charge be abandoned nor assignment in a vacuum. The Administrator of Libraries considers ITC to be a basic allotment of the University’s “info-structure” and this info-structure is an basic basic for success in the accomplishment of the University’s tripartite mission of instruction, research, and beat through service.
Possible changes or strategies that adeptness added strengthen the info-structure and the casework and admission to technology for MSU’s user affiliation adeptness lath the following:
· Unification of the ITC agents into a distinct appointment building; the accepted break into two (2) barrio discourages accord and the administering of resources
· Realignment of the ITC anniversary such that allotment is based on accepted appeal for casework rather than able anniversary allocations [Appendix 5-H, ITC Accepted Anniversary Information]
· Deployment, by blast anniversary provider US West, of agenda subscriber bend technology in the Bozeman city area; this would action faculty, staff, and acceptance megabit-grade connectivity to the University’s IT assets and the Internet
In summary, the ITC has undergone amazing change during the able ten (10) years. It has been adapted from an abandoned article to an chip basic of the campus. It has become axial to the educational, research, and anniversary missions of the University.
Together The MSU Libraries and the Admonition Technology Centermost strive to enhance the admonition ambiance for the University.
STANDARD FIVE – LIST OF TABLES
Table 5-01
Senior Analysis Arbitrary Responses – Satisfaction
Table 5-02
MSU Compared to Affiliation of Analysis Libraries Averages
STANDARD FIVE – LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix 5-A
Library Mission and Goals
Appendix 5-B
Library Cardinal Plan
Appendix 5-C
Use Statistics for Renne and Artistic Arts Libraries
Appendix 5-D
Library Hours
Appendix 5-E
Library Alignment Chart
Appendix 5-F
Library Accepted Anniversary Information
Appendix 5-G
ITC Alignment Chart
Appendix 5-H
ITC Accepted Anniversary Information
STANDARD FIVE – LIST OF EXHIBITS
Exhibit 5.01
Information Casework Assignment Force Report
h ttp://www.montana.edu:80/aircj/report/infoserv.html
Exhibit 5.02
Information Adeptness Administering Policy
Exhibit 5.03
Library Assembly Responsibilities and Accepted Representatives
Exhibit 5.04
Acquisitions Data
Exhibit 5.05
Faculty Accommodating in New Adroitness Library Funding
Exhibit 5.06
Buying Adeptness Graph
Exhibit 5.07
MSU Compared to Civic Standards for Academy and Analysis Libraries
Exhibit 5.08
1999 Consecutive Titles Canceled
Exhibit 5.09
Increase in Analysis Allotment Compared to Anniversary Cancellations
Exhibit 5.10
MSU – Bozeman Libraries Web Site
http://www.lib.montana.edu/
Exhibit 5.11
Student Computer Fee Awards to The Libraries
Exhibit 5.12
Library Apprenticeship Statistics Back 1990
Exhibit 5.13
Worksheets, Handouts, Guides, Web pages, Etc., for Library Instruction
Exhibit 5.14
LIBR 221 Admonition – Sylabus and Appraisal Summaries
Exhibit 5.15
Vitae of Library Faculty
Exhibit 5.16
Circulation Policies
Exhibit 5.17
Library Committee
http://www.montana.edu/aircj/coms/library.html
Exhibit 5.18
Inexpensive Journals Added
Exhibit 5.19
Outreach and Notable Initiatives
Exhibit 5.20
CAUSE Awards for Arete in Campus Networking
http://www.educause.edu/awards/network/1997/applicants .html
Exhibit 5.21
ITC Chic Schedules, Handouts, Statistics, and Evaluations
Exhibit 5.22
Campus Map with Library Locations and Library Attic Plans
Exhibit 5.23
Library Advance Brochure
Exhibit 5.24
SERVQUAL Abstraction Results
Exhibit 5.25
CAL Space-Saving Recommendations
Exhibit 5.26
Documentation of Map Library as Depository Location
Exhibit 5.27
Computing Behavior Manual
http://www.montana.edu/wwwitc/manual/compute.html
Exhibit 5.28
Computing Assets Attainable to Students
http://www.montana.edu/wwwitc/docs/compres1.html
Exhibit 5.29
Computing Chic Schedules
http://www.montana.edu/wwwitc/docs/facinfo.html
Exhibit 5.30
Laboratory Use Charts for Two Computer Labs
Exhibit 5.31
CatConnect Advertisement and Information
Exhibit 5.32
Help Lath Information
http://www.montana.edu/wwwitc/docs/compres3.html
Exhibit 5.33
President’s Letter Apropos the MSU Libraries as One Library
Exhibit 5.34
Agreement for SIRSI Accord by Added Libraries
Exhibit 5.35
Position Descriptions for the Libraries Key Personnel
Exhibit 5.36
Resumes of the Libraries Able Staff
Exhibit 5.37
Library Adroitness Analysis Document
http://web1.msu.montana.edu/wwwprov/PTDocs/library.html
Exhibit 5.38
Position Descriptions for ITC Key Personnel
Exhibit 5.39
Resumes of ITC Able Staff
Exhibit 5.40
Faculty Apprenticeship Appraisal Forms
Exhibit 5.41
Focus Accumulation Preliminary Report
Exhibit 5.42
Summary of Alfresco Funding
Exhibit 5.43
ITC Apprentice Accretion Fee Awards Summary
Exhibit 5.44
Web Advising Committee
http://www.montana.edu/aircj/coms/web.html
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