Creating a New Thread

I think that if you go to blogger.com and log in with whatever password you established when you "joined" the blog, you should be able to start a new thread. I don't know the software well enough to know for sure!

Hoped for Outcomes

It might be useful for us to think a bit about the outcomes we'd like to see as a result of our work. I'd like to see the Libraries receive more indirect cost recovery money; I'd like to see a new seamless service model which is less collections/place-based and more reflective of the interdisciplinarity of research; and I'd like to see the development of new services designed to better meet the needs of off-campus researchers.

Questions for Us to Consider

Here are some of the questions I'd like us to consider as we go about our work; they are in no particular order; some were mentioned by others this morning.

1. Who is doing work in the Biosciences?
2. Where are they located physically, administratively, intellectually?
3. Where do they publish?
4. What types of information resources are most important to their work--print? Electronic?
5. How is their research funded?
6. How well do we meet their information needs--what are we doing well?
7. What should we be doing for them that we are not already doing?
8. Are our collections adequate to their needs (reliance on ILL/doc delivery)?
9. How heavily/often do they use the physical library and why?
10. Are our collection development choices/spending reflecting research emphases?
11. How heavily do UW-affiliated, off-campus researchers use Libraries' resources? Can this be used to justify the Libraries' receiving indirects for off-campus research?
12. What Libraries services do / would they use in addition to the collections?


More later.