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SECTION B: Plan for 2007-2009
KEY AREA 3: DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING LIBRARY
COLLECTIONS
The Library’s collections have been developed
throughout the University’s history based on sustained funding in support of
the University’s education activities. The Library’s collections now
comprise over 3 million items, and are particularly strong in electronic
resources with some 750 online databases, more than 21,000 electronic
journals and 240,000 electronic books. Together, the Library’s program of
actively acquiring a wide range of electronic resources and multiple copy
print materials support the University’s aim of excellence in education.
Monash University is both an educational institution
and a research-intensive university that seeks to achieve excellence in both
areas through a cross-disciplinary, multi-campus,
multi-nation approach. It values an internationally focused, research-led
approach to teaching. The University has multiple campuses in
diverse locations in the Melbourne metropolitan and Gippsland regions of
Victoria, and overseas in South Africa and Malaysia, from which it offers a
wide range of educational programs at the undergraduate and postgraduate
levels.
3.1 Developing
collections to support the curriculum
The impact of the University’s structure and approach
on the Library’s ability to provide collections in support of these programs
at relevant campuses needs to be understood.
Objective 3.1.1: To provide collection capacity
to effectively support curriculum needs.
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Strategies |
Actions |
Measures/Targets/KPIs |
Timeline |
Responsibility |
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Develop and apply
improved methodologies to ensure collections support the curriculum. |
Identify curriculum
requirements. |
Library Impact
Statements are completed for new units and courses. |
Ongoing. |
Directors, Client Services, Information Resources,
Readings and Reserve Co-ordinator, Faculty Teams. |
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Multiple copies policies are reviewed and applied
consistently. |
Ongoing. |
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Material is available to support courses offered at
all campuses. |
Ongoing. |
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Provide advice and
assistance to Monash University Malaysia and Monash South Africa on
building library collections in support of curriculum requirements. |
Advice and
assistance is provided within University guidelines. |
Ongoing. |
Director,
Information Resources; Directors, Client Services. |
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Create an improved
process for managing the Reading List service, including the acquisition
of Reading List material (See also 4.3.1.). |
Reading List service delivery model is established,
and implemented. |
2007-2009. |
Directors, Client
Services, Information Resources, Readings and Reserve Co-ordinator,
Readings and Reserve Steering Committee, Project Team, Information
Systems. |
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Increase
collaborative purchasing of required materials by Faculty teams. |
Consistent and
simplified process is established. |
2008. |
Faculty Teams. |
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Examine the
potential of electronic books to support the curriculum particularly
where it is repeated on multiple campuses. |
Identify suitable material.
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Electronic books are
identified and considered for purchase. |
Ongoing. |
Director,
Information Resources, Collection Management Librarian, Faculty teams. |
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Purchase selected
titles. |
Business models for
electronic books are understood and budgeted for. |
Ongoing. |
Director,
Information Resources, Collection Management Librarian, Faculty teams. |
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Increase in number
of electronic texts available. |
Ongoing. |
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Identify issues with
accessing and using electronic books for students. |
Cataloguing support is available for purchased
titles. |
Ongoing. |
Director,
Information Resources, Collection Management Librarian, Faculty teams. |
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Rejection rates are
minimised for users. |
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Increase electronic
availability of high demand items. |
Devise reports to identify highest demand print
items using loans and holds data. Determine which are not available
electronically and explore options for acquiring them.
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Reports produced and
items acquired due to strategy and their usage statistics. |
Ongoing. |
Systems staff (reports)
Information
Resources Division and Electronic Resources Selection Subcommittee
(analysis). |
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Examine demand
driven vendor models for delivering electronic content and implement if
practical (particularly EBook Library). |
Models explored,
reported on and decision on implementation taken. |
2007. |
Electronic Resources Selection Subcommittee;
Collection
Development Librarian and (for EBook Library) Electronic Resources
Selection Subcommittee working group. |
3.2 Promoting collections
The Library is a
repository for and provider of resources to facilitate excellence in
education. Central to this role is the promotion of relevant library
collections and resources and their use to lecturers and coursework students
at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Objective 3.2.1: To maximise the use of the
Library’s collections by lecturers and students to support the University’s
aim of excellence in education.
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Strategies |
Actions |
Measures/Targets/KPIs |
Timeline |
Responsibility |
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Promote the
strengths of the Library’s collections to existing and prospective
lecturers. |
Identify and
describe the existing strengths. |
Strengths are
encapsulated in a form that can be used for web or print to open dialog
with university faculties and departments. |
2007-08. |
Senior Librarians,
Communications Manager. |
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The Library website
profiles the strengths of the collection and promotes appropriate
resources to particular user groups. |
Collection pages are
easily accessible and include information and description to assist
prospective users. |
July 2007. |
Director, Client Services, Director, Central Services |
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