Short-term recommendations:

Monographs


1) Continue inhouse and collaborative collection development and evaluation
2) With input from R2 Consulting:  a) Determine usage statistics needed and b) Gather stats related to collection usage
3) Continue weeding due to Olin space crunch



Serials

• Make request to administration to fund an ERM, and, then contract with an ERM vendor. Implementation will require extensive time commitment
• Explore the possibilities of using social software (blogs, myspace, rss feeds, etc) that could maximize the awareness of Wesleyan’s e-serial literature to our students.  With faculty, we could explore the same type of software to alert faculty to new databases or new e-products. (Faculty are aware already of online serial resources).[see power point of a presentation on potential uses of social software: Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts: Social Software in the Library by Abigail Bordeaux, NASIG, May 2006]
• Create a notification method for users to report e-access problems/questions. (This recommendation has been implemented for serials: we have to implement also a mechanism for reporting I&D problems.)

Audio & Video   

• choose a new image management system (or commit to updating existing mediadb.)
• acquire large disk system
• develop a system for managing curricular and scholarly access to local digital music
  

Images

• Recommendation of either a new system or significant upgrades to the media database
• A campus-wide media management and delivery system, which could be either a replacement of or a recommitment to the Media Database.  The system should allow for federated searching (which will allow it to be searched along side our other yet-to-be determined management systems and institutional repository).
• Contingent on the media management system selected, identify a system manager.
• Concurrent with evaluating media management systems, look into peer to peer technology a la Penn State's LionShare open-source development project.
• When the system is in place, provide individual training for faculty in digital presentation; offer classes and training in moving from one format to another.

Datasets

• Develop data referencing services for undergraduate research. This recommendation can be started by contacting Trinity (as a consortium partner of the Library, this may be a good starting point) < http://libweb.trincoll.edu/tor/dator.cfm > and Yale < http://ssrs.yale.edu/statcat/Welcome.do;jsessionid=1F0E025CAF17B5FDD3AF399CB9378AB4 >, both of whom have well developed sites.
• Quantitative Analysis Center (QAC) to provide data analysis support and explore best data publishing practices (This recommendation is under way )

Web sites

• evaluate web editors
• fix templates to allow for printing
• develop strategy for archiving institutional websites
• re-start campus-wide web committee
  

Special collections

• getting a better scanner and other equipment for digitizing materials; and more digital space.

Blackboard, instructional web spaces, campus files

• Acquistion of a content management system for active files (e.g. Xythos)

Faculty scholarship

• interview and/or survey faculty to better understand issues
• education about author's rights as part of larger institutional repository planning

Student theses

• Launch a student thesis pilot project.

University records

•  digital space and use of the digital space to describe and provide images of our university records.

General Recommendation
Acquisition of a large disk system for storing all of this digital stuff.