Libraries dialogue notes

WSU Libraries dialogue notes 3.18.19

Assumptions

• Tech changes student learning
• Open access very impactful if successful
• Why libraries if Google
• Complicated environment with 17k vendors, 14K platforms
• Lots of consolidation but that doesn’t make it easier
• Info seeking behavior has changed
• People at all stages of the technology curve
• Communication challenges – all online and independent
• Expectation for immediacy
• More intensity and speed
• Different resources – depth is $$
• They don’t come to us first – we have to go to where they are
• More and more students are online
• Insitution’s role evolves for libraries and it’s more diffused (e.g. BB, AMS)
• Copyright – interlibrary loan affected, costly
• Study spaces evolving to address different modes of scholarship
• 5-6% increased cost of materials every year

Mission

• Fine
• Land grant is powerful—huge impact on state
• Land grant comes naturally to libraries
• Important to go beyond Extension for outreach; e.g. the music concert in Spokane
• L G is “sacred” – why I am here

Values

• Is who we hope to be
• Can list 47 things – reasonable
• “inclusion” rather than “diversity”
• What does “global citizen” mean?

Drive to 25

• Better resourced, e.g. libraries, collections and people, OERs, data preservation
• Research having an impact
• Students who excel
• Gets you in doors you don’t get into otherwise
• Have to double our budget
• We do great work: Our library instruction is about the best but stretched so thin
• Faculty repositories will be UP
• Emphasis on digital
• Uniformly high quality physical spaces

Short-term goals

• Time to graduation, retention
• 20% fewer staff now than when came; many on grants—improve this?
• Budget up – grants don’t serve the core
• Bigger and better library
• Basic infrastructure – grants can’t support this
• Reach the bottom of the top 25 in collections requires that we double our collections
• No EBB $ comes to the libraries
• Key is size, special collections for Top 25
• U will demonstrate progress
  • Students
  • Faculty
  • $
• Students without debt
• Library is an inclusive place; an equalizer for student success