PNC Strategic Planning Document -- Library & Media Services
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(Prepared February 2002)
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Contents of the Strategic Plan
Mission Statement
Library's Vision/Aspirations
Goals, Strategies and Assessment Measures
Financial Resources
Peer Institution Libraries
Mission Statement
The PNC Library and Media Services will provide and promote access to quality information and media resources and services that supports a student-centered learning environment and enhances the university's commitment to learning, discovery, and engagement.
Library's Vision/Aspirations
In the next five years, the library and media services envisions:
- Expanded and enhanced information resources in all formats that support the academic programs of a bachelor's degree granting institution with a few master's degree programs.
- A learning library environment, in partnership with the university community that instructs, assists, and encourages individuals to be skilled life-long users of information.
- An environment that highlights the importance to the university of the library as an inviting, comfortable, innovative, and welcoming place conducive to study, learning and research.
- Expanded multi-media services and a new studio facility.
- Collaborative and cooperative partnerships with other libraries and information providers to promote information literacy and provide access to information resources.
Goals, Strategies and Assessment Measures
1. Students
PNC students will receive support and services that are critical to their needs as they work toward achieving their personal, academic and career goals. PNC will focus on managed growth through the recruitment, retention, and graduation of a diverse student body from the local region, the State of Indiana, and beyond.
Students - Measures of Progress:
- Satisfaction rating of students
- Student use of library collections and information resources in all formats
- Number and diversity of information literacy instruction programs
- Number of students in library instruction programs
- Library expenditures per student
- State-of-the-art information technology
- Increase interlibrary loans and document deliveries
- Increase use of multi-media services
- Number and quality of library services
- Wireless computers for student use in the library
- Increase use of library services and facilities
- Number of information resources used or circulated by students
- Number of classes requiring students to use library resources for research
2. Academic Programs
PNC will enhance and expand the degree programs at the Bachelor's and Master's level. The curricula will be subject to a continuous quality improvement process. Learning, discovery and engagement will be the focal points of the academic environment at the North Central campus.
Strategies for meeting this goal:
- Enhance access to print and online information resources
- Provide innovative new information technology
- Assess information needs
- Library acquisitions for bachelor's and master's level programs
- Enhance integrated online access to information resources
- Improve and expand library's web portal
- Provide quality multi-media support
- Weed library collections
Academic Programs - Measures of Progress:
- Survey faculty's instructional and research information needs
- Survey student/faculty satisfaction rating with resources
- Online access to the records of all library holdings
- Increase library acquisitions
- Increase access to electronic databases and full-text resources
- Library expenditures for information resources
- Library support compared with peer institutions
3. Constituent Relations
PNC will provide life-long learning opportunities that will enrich and engage the community. PNC will expand existing relationships and create new partnerships to expand our resource base, enhance positive perceptions of Purdue University, and provide opportunities for meaningful community involvement. PNC will work collaboratively with all types of educational institutions to ensure student access to higher education.
Strategies for meeting this goal:
- Create partnerships with other libraries and agencies to expand and enhance access to information resources
- Partnership with Purdue Libraries for shared online resources
- Promote and develop programs of the Friends of the Library
- Seek private funding
- Provide information literacy workshops for community groups
Constituent Relations - Measures of Progress:
- Number of shared online information resources with other institutions
- Amount of contributions and participation from the Friends of the Library
- External funding
- Increase interlibrary loans
- Number of participants in community information literacy programs
- Faculty participation with library information literacy programs
4. Campus Environment
The PNC campus will be recognized as a center of beauty, culture, science and the arts. PNC will provide facilities to support the needs of our academic programs, support services, and community initiatives.
Strategies for meeting this goal:
- Provide a comfortable, innovative, pleasing and welcoming student-centered library learning environment conducive to study, learning, discovery, and research
- Plan the renovation/redesign of library physical facilities
- Plan the expansion/renovation of media facilities
- Instructional computer classroom in the library
Campus Environment - Measures of Progress:
- Quality of library resources
- Quality and quantity of information resources and information technology
- Campus commitment to the renovation/remodeling of library's physical facilities
- Expenditure of funds for library and media facilities
- Replace library furnishings
- Library instructional electronic classroom
- Number of public computers for information access
- Appropriate public elevator access to the library
- Library renovation and remodeling
- Expansion and renovation of media services' physical facilities, including studio space
Financial Resources
Increase Funding From All Sources to Support Quality Improvement of Library Programs
- Campus Allocation - Pursue increases in campus funding for
- Library acquisition per FTE student
- Library acquisitions in support of bachelor's and master's academic programs
- Service improvements
- Private or external funding
- Reallocation of funds
- State appropriation for renovation of physical facilities
Peer Institution Libraries
Indiana University East Library (Richmond)
Robert E. Eiche Library, Pennsylvania State Altoona
Southwest State University Library (Minn.)
Lima Campus Library, The Ohio State University at Lima
Allen Memorial Library, Valley City State University North Dakota
University of Minnesota Crookston Library
Jim Dan Hill Library, University of Wisconsin - Superior Campus
These institutions were chosen as the peer group for Purdue University North Central in its strategic plan. As the plan is implemented and developed, these institutions may change. Peer libraries will be compared using the following data:
- Number of volumes
- Ratio of volumes to student enrollment
- Ratio of volumes added per year to faculty and student FTE
- Number of titles
- Number of online/print periodical subscriptions
- Number of electronic full-text periodical resources
- Salary of professional staff
- Number of support staff
- Wages of support staff
- Ratio of library staff to student and faculty FTE
- Number of instructional sessions and workshops
- Number of students attending library instructional programs
- Number of library services
- Annual budget as percentage of university's operating expenditures
- Expenditures for library materials per FTE student
- Expenditures for electronic full-text periodicals
- Expenditures for online electronic databases
- External funding sources
- Library facilities and space design
- Multi-media services and facilities
- Staff development (attendance at workshops, conferences, etc.)
- Quality and quantity of information technologies
- Use of library services and resources
- Number of interlibrary loans and document deliveries
- Ratio of interlibrary loan requests to student/faculty FTE
- Ratio of circulation to student/faculty FTE
- Ratio of reference questions to student FTE
- Number of library computer public workstations
- Diversity of instructional resources
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