SACS Reaffirmation
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Assessment : 2006 - 2007 : Educational Support :
Library, Newton Gresham
3 Goals 14 Objectives 22 Indicators 22 Criteria 20 Findings 20 Actions
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Collection Development | |
| Provide access to print, web-based and locally produced content Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Collection Development Acquire resources that support the curriculum and research using Choice, Library Journal and standard sources. Acquire "best of the year" using list in Choice, Library Journal, Booklist, and other standard sources. |
| Criteria | Acquisitions  Try to acquire at least 12,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Acquire 80% of the "best of year" lists. |
| Finding | Collection Development The number of titles received continues to vary from year to year. The policy of buying only one copy of a title and purchasing paperback editions whenever possible has helped maintain the number of books received relatively constant level. In 2007, there was a slight increase in the number of titles purchased; due moving shifting funds from the Library’s O & M. 12,000 titles were acquired. |
| Criteria | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC''s WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Finding | Collection Evaluation Database was sent to OCLC in May of 2007. Committee was established to revise the collection developmen policy. |
| Indicator | Digital Archives/Repository Identify Special Collections to be added to the digital archive. Identify new digital management software. |
| Criteria | Digital Archives/Respository Digitize 5 collections of family papers. Evaluate digital management systems. |
| Finding | Digital Archives/Repository 7 collections of family papers were digitized. ContentDM was selected as the new digital management system. |
| Indicator | Direct To Faculty Add newly published (last 2 years) research monographs requested by faculty through ILL to satisfy immediate and long term needs. |
| Criteria | Direct from faculty Order 100% of all new monographs requested by faculty, cost less than $100. |
| Indicator | Information Resources Participation in strategic partnerships. |
| Indicator | New Course Reviews Librarians review new courses and programs to determine adequacy of the collection. |
| Criteria | Course Reviews If course review indicates,acquire materials as needed within budgetary constains. |
| Finding | Course Reviews While most course reviews indicate the library can support the course with access to electronic resource, such areas as urban geography, and tourism required updating the monographic collection. See attachment for example of course evaluation. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Partnerships/Consortia Participate in strategic partnerships for productive collaboration with the state, region, nation and campus.Librarians will use authoritative, evaluative selection tools. |
| Criteria | Partnerships Use membership in consortia to share resources and acquire new resources when opportunity and budget allow. |
| Finding | Partnerships All together our participation in partnerships/consortia provide access to 60% of the databases available to the SHSU community. TexShare, the state resource sharing project, provides access one-third of our total holdings. |
| Indicator | Review ILL Request Review ILL requests to determine need add monographs and journals to the collection |
| Criteria | Book review, ILL Add books frequently requested by students and faculty that support the curriculum and research. |
| Finding | Book review, ILL No books were identified. |
| Criteria | Journal review, ILL Add journals when ILL cost exceeds subscription cost. |
| Finding | Journal review, ILL Ordered Journal of analytical toxicology, 0146-4760. The number of requests requiring royality payment exceed the subscription cost. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Book Reviews,ILL Will continue next year. |
| Action | Collection Development The policy of buying only one copy of a title and purchasing paperback editions whenever possible will continue. This will help maintain the number of books received relatively constant level. |
| Action | Course Reviews This activity will continue. |
| Action | Journal Review, ILL Program will continue |
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Collection Evaluation | |
| Evaluate the collection to ensure it meets curricular and research needs.
Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Collection Development Acquire resources that support the curriculum and research using Choice, Library Journal and standard sources. Acquire "best of the year" using list in Choice, Library Journal, Booklist, and other standard sources. |
| Criteria | Acquisitions Try to acquire at least 12,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Acquire 80% of the "best of year" lists. |
| Finding | Collection Development The number of titles received continues to vary from year to year. The policy of buying only one copy of a title and purchasing paperback editions whenever possible has helped maintain the number of books received relatively constant level. In 2007, there was a slight increase in the number of titles purchased; due moving shifting funds from the Library’s O & M. 12,000 titles were acquired. |
| Criteria | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC''s WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Finding | Collection Evaluation Database was sent to OCLC in May of 2007. Committee was established to revise the collection developmen policy. |
| Indicator | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC's WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that the faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Criminal Justice. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2007 the mean was 3.90. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Librarians met with new faculty member in face to face to session. The Library director met with new faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| Indicator | New Course Reviews Librarians review new courses and programs to determine adequacy of the collection. |
| Criteria | Course Reviews If course review indicates,acquire materials as needed within budgetary constains. |
| Finding | Course Reviews While most course reviews indicate the library can support the course with access to electronic resource, such areas as urban geography, and tourism required updating the monographic collection. See attachment for example of course evaluation. |
| Indicator | Partnerships/Consortia Participate in strategic partnerships for productive collaboration with the state, region, nation and campus.Librarians will use authoritative, evaluative selection tools. |
| Criteria | Partnerships Use membership in consortia to share resources and acquire new resources when opportunity and budget allow. |
| Finding | Partnerships All together our participation in partnerships/consortia provide access to 60% of the databases available to the SHSU community. TexShare, the state resource sharing project, provides access one-third of our total holdings. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Collection Evaluation Revise the Collection Development poicy. Use OCLC''s collection analysis tool to evaluate the collection. |
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Digital Archive/Respository | |
| Establish a digital archive making content readily accessible.Plan the structure of a digital repository; identify stakeholders; identify software (turnkey or open source. Associated Goals: Collection, Promotion, Services |
| Indicator | Digital Archives/Repository Identify Special Collections to be added to the digital archive. Identify new digital management software. |
| Criteria | Digital Archives/Respository Digitize 5 collections of family papers. Evaluate digital management systems. |
| Finding | Digital Archives/Repository 7 collections of family papers were digitized. ContentDM was selected as the new digital management system. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Digital Archives/repository Move content from Hyperion to ContentDM. Work with Honors Program and Writing Center to get student participation in Digital Repository |
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Faculty Input | |
| Provide opportunities for faculty to discuss their needs, research and curricular. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Faculty Direct Deliver books and articles from the SHSU collection to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Criteria | Faculty direct Provide SHSU owned books and articles to faculty in their offices and on their desktops within 3 work days. |
| Finding | Direct to faculty Ordered 12 titles in 2006/07, as reported by Head of ILL |
| Finding | Faculty Direct Books and articles from the SHSU collection were promptly delievered to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that the faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Criminal Justice. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2007 the mean was 3.90. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Librarians met with new faculty member in face to face to session. The Library director met with new faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| Indicator | Library Instruction, Evaluation Evaluate instructional sessions to determine how well the session met the instructional objective of the class. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Faculty Determine base from first year data. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Students Maintain a 95% relavency rate as measured by questions on the relevance to assignment/course and clearness of the examples as using the student''s self report. |
| Indicator | New Course Reviews Librarians review new courses and programs to determine adequacy of the collection. |
| Criteria | Course Reviews If course review indicates,acquire materials as needed within budgetary constains. |
| Finding | Course Reviews While most course reviews indicate the library can support the course with access to electronic resource, such areas as urban geography, and tourism required updating the monographic collection. See attachment for example of course evaluation. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Open House Hold an open house for faculty to introduce new resources and publicize services. Open house provides an opportunity for faculty talk with librarians about their needs for research and their courses. |
| Indicator | Resource Delivery Provide materialsnot owned by SHSU requested through ILL, accurately and efficently. |
| Indicator | Review ILL Request Review ILL requests to determine need add monographs and journals to the collection |
| Criteria | Book review, ILL Add books frequently requested by students and faculty that support the curriculum and research. |
| Finding | Book review, ILL No books were identified. |
| Criteria | Journal review, ILL Add journals when ILL cost exceeds subscription cost. |
| Finding | Journal review, ILL Ordered Journal of analytical toxicology, 0146-4760. The number of requests requiring royality payment exceed the subscription cost. |
Actions for Objective:
This objective has no actions associated with it.
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Information Access | |
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Provide effective and efficent access to materials needed for research. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Access To Resources Webpage will provide easy access to resources. |
| Indicator | Collection Development Acquire resources that support the curriculum and research using Choice, Library Journal and standard sources. Acquire "best of the year" using list in Choice, Library Journal, Booklist, and other standard sources. |
| Criteria | Acquisitions Try to acquire at least 12,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Acquire 80% of the "best of year" lists. |
| Finding | Collection Development The number of titles received continues to vary from year to year. The policy of buying only one copy of a title and purchasing paperback editions whenever possible has helped maintain the number of books received relatively constant level. In 2007, there was a slight increase in the number of titles purchased; due moving shifting funds from the Library’s O & M. 12,000 titles were acquired. |
| Criteria | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC''s WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Finding | Collection Evaluation Database was sent to OCLC in May of 2007. Committee was established to revise the collection developmen policy. |
| Indicator | Digital Archives/Repository Identify Special Collections to be added to the digital archive. Identify new digital management software. |
| Criteria | Digital Archives/Respository Digitize 5 collections of family papers. Evaluate digital management systems. |
| Finding | Digital Archives/Repository 7 collections of family papers were digitized. ContentDM was selected as the new digital management system. |
| Indicator | Direct To Faculty Add newly published (last 2 years) research monographs requested by faculty through ILL to satisfy immediate and long term needs. |
| Criteria | Direct from faculty Order 100% of all new monographs requested by faculty, cost less than $100. |
| Indicator | Faculty Direct Deliver books and articles from the SHSU collection to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Criteria | Faculty direct Provide SHSU owned books and articles to faculty in their offices and on their desktops within 3 work days. |
| Finding | Direct to faculty Ordered 12 titles in 2006/07, as reported by Head of ILL |
| Finding | Faculty Direct Books and articles from the SHSU collection were promptly delievered to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that the faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Criminal Justice. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2007 the mean was 3.90. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Librarians met with new faculty member in face to face to session. The Library director met with new faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| Indicator | Information Access Users will be able to identify resources through the online catalog. |
| Criteria | Catalog material Catalog 95% of all materials acquired; add bibliographic records as needed for new collections (various media). |
| Criteria | Interlibrary loan Provide ILL materials to users with in 7 to 10 days. |
| Finding | Interlibrary Loan Article and books are recieved and processed between 4 and 9 days. |
| Criteria | Web-based resources Achieve a 10% increase in the usage of web-based resources. |
| Finding | Web based resources The electronic collection increased by 9%. The increase is substantial although slightly less than expected. |
| Indicator | Information Resources Participation in strategic partnerships. |
| Indicator | Instructional Sessions Increase the number and type of instructional sessions |
| Criteria | Instructional Sessions Increase the number of instructional session by 10%. |
| Finding | Instructional Sessions The number of Library Instruction sessions has been relatively stable for a number of years. In 2004 a renovation project required librarians to become mobile and take instruction to classrooms and computer labs across campus, thus reducing the number of sessions. In FY 2005 the number of instruction sessions increased by 33%. In 2006 the number of instruction session remained stable; the number of presentations increased by 20% in 2007. Librarians provide instruction at The University Center and at other off campus sites. |
| Finding | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Faculty When the Library Instruction Librarian resigned, the data was not pass on the new coordinator. |
| Finding | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Students Feedback from students partipating in Instruction Sessions shows a decline of 2 to 3 percent on the questions of the relevance of the presentation to their assignment/course and that the examples were clear from the previous 2 years. While 95 percent of the total respondents answered the questions about relevance to their course/assignment, only 42 percent of the respondents answered the question about the examples. The target was that 95% percent of the respondents would find the class relevant and the examples clear, and the feedback indicates that this criterion was met. |
| Criteria | Instructional tools Increase the number of instructional tools,guides (by 20%) and tutorials (by 10%). |
| Finding | Instructional Tools Online tutorials were revised in FY 2006 and FY 2007. This increased the number of tutorials by 60%. Two subject guides were revised and 2 new course guides were created. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Newsletter Publish a newsletter in print and electronically. |
| Criteria | Newsletter Issue first library newsletter. |
| Finding | Newsletter First newsletter was issued in 2007. |
| Indicator | Open House Hold an open house for faculty to introduce new resources and publicize services. Open house provides an opportunity for faculty talk with librarians about their needs for research and their courses. |
| Indicator | Partnerships/Consortia Participate in strategic partnerships for productive collaboration with the state, region, nation and campus.Librarians will use authoritative, evaluative selection tools. |
| Criteria | Partnerships Use membership in consortia to share resources and acquire new resources when opportunity and budget allow. |
| Finding | Partnerships All together our participation in partnerships/consortia provide access to 60% of the databases available to the SHSU community. TexShare, the state resource sharing project, provides access one-third of our total holdings. |
| Indicator | Resource Delivery Provide materialsnot owned by SHSU requested through ILL, accurately and efficently. |
| Indicator | Self Report Use student self report and report from faculty to determine the relevancy of the session to the class. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Faculty Direct This program will continue next year |
| Action | New Faculty Orientation Program will continue. |
| Action | Partnerships Continue identifying relationships that will help increase library resources. |
| Action | Web based resources Within in budget constrains, add additional web based resources. |
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Information Resources | |
| Increase the scope and depth of information resources to support research and the curriculum.
Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Collection Development Acquire resources that support the curriculum and research using Choice, Library Journal and standard sources. Acquire "best of the year" using list in Choice, Library Journal, Booklist, and other standard sources. |
| Criteria | Acquisitions Try to acquire at least 12,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Acquire 80% of the "best of year" lists. |
| Finding | Collection Development The number of titles received continues to vary from year to year. The policy of buying only one copy of a title and purchasing paperback editions whenever possible has helped maintain the number of books received relatively constant level. In 2007, there was a slight increase in the number of titles purchased; due moving shifting funds from the Library’s O & M. 12,000 titles were acquired. |
| Criteria | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC''s WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Finding | Collection Evaluation Database was sent to OCLC in May of 2007. Committee was established to revise the collection developmen policy. |
| Indicator | Direct To Faculty Add newly published (last 2 years) research monographs requested by faculty through ILL to satisfy immediate and long term needs. |
| Criteria | Direct from faculty Order 100% of all new monographs requested by faculty, cost less than $100. |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that the faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Criminal Justice. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2007 the mean was 3.90. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Librarians met with new faculty member in face to face to session. The Library director met with new faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| Indicator | Information Access Users will be able to identify resources through the online catalog. |
| Criteria | Catalog material Catalog 95% of all materials acquired; add bibliographic records as needed for new collections (various media). |
| Criteria | Interlibrary loan Provide ILL materials to users with in 7 to 10 days. |
| Finding | Interlibrary Loan Article and books are recieved and processed between 4 and 9 days. |
| Criteria | Web-based resources Achieve a 10% increase in the usage of web-based resources. |
| Finding | Web based resources The electronic collection increased by 9%. The increase is substantial although slightly less than expected. |
| Indicator | Information Resources Participation in strategic partnerships. |
| Indicator | New Course Reviews Librarians review new courses and programs to determine adequacy of the collection. |
| Criteria | Course Reviews If course review indicates,acquire materials as needed within budgetary constains. |
| Finding | Course Reviews While most course reviews indicate the library can support the course with access to electronic resource, such areas as urban geography, and tourism required updating the monographic collection. See attachment for example of course evaluation. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Open House Hold an open house for faculty to introduce new resources and publicize services. Open house provides an opportunity for faculty talk with librarians about their needs for research and their courses. |
| Indicator | Review ILL Request Review ILL requests to determine need add monographs and journals to the collection |
| Criteria | Book review, ILL Add books frequently requested by students and faculty that support the curriculum and research. |
| Finding | Book review, ILL No books were identified. |
| Criteria | Journal review, ILL Add journals when ILL cost exceeds subscription cost. |
| Finding | Journal review, ILL Ordered Journal of analytical toxicology, 0146-4760. The number of requests requiring royality payment exceed the subscription cost. |
Actions for Objective:
This objective has no actions associated with it.
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Library Instruction | |
| Provide course related library instruction. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that the faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Criminal Justice. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2007 the mean was 3.90. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Librarians met with new faculty member in face to face to session. The Library director met with new faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| Indicator | Instructional Sessions Increase the number and type of instructional sessions |
| Criteria | Instructional Sessions Increase the number of instructional session by 10%. |
| Finding | Instructional Sessions The number of Library Instruction sessions has been relatively stable for a number of years. In 2004 a renovation project required librarians to become mobile and take instruction to classrooms and computer labs across campus, thus reducing the number of sessions. In FY 2005 the number of instruction sessions increased by 33%. In 2006 the number of instruction session remained stable; the number of presentations increased by 20% in 2007. Librarians provide instruction at The University Center and at other off campus sites. |
| Finding | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Faculty When the Library Instruction Librarian resigned, the data was not pass on the new coordinator. |
| Finding | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Students Feedback from students partipating in Instruction Sessions shows a decline of 2 to 3 percent on the questions of the relevance of the presentation to their assignment/course and that the examples were clear from the previous 2 years. While 95 percent of the total respondents answered the questions about relevance to their course/assignment, only 42 percent of the respondents answered the question about the examples. The target was that 95% percent of the respondents would find the class relevant and the examples clear, and the feedback indicates that this criterion was met. |
| Criteria | Instructional tools Increase the number of instructional tools,guides (by 20%) and tutorials (by 10%). |
| Finding | Instructional Tools Online tutorials were revised in FY 2006 and FY 2007. This increased the number of tutorials by 60%. Two subject guides were revised and 2 new course guides were created. |
| Indicator | Self Report Use student self report and report from faculty to determine the relevancy of the session to the class. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Instructional Sessions Provide instructor with training. Continue program |
| Action | Instructional Tools Provide new tools to access information. Revise tools. |
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Training/Development | |
| Provide oportunities for training and professional development to increase skill and knowledge to meet the changing needs of the library and its users.
Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Development/training Librarians and staff will participate in training and professional development activities. |
| Criteria | Training and Professional 50% of Library faculty will attend professional meetings. Training sessions will be provided for faculty and staff. |
Actions for Objective:
This objective has no actions associated with it.
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | User Satisfaction | |
| Improve user satisfaction with library services
Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Access To Resources Webpage will provide easy access to resources. |
| Indicator | Collection Development Acquire resources that support the curriculum and research using Choice, Library Journal and standard sources. Acquire "best of the year" using list in Choice, Library Journal, Booklist, and other standard sources. |
| Criteria | Acquisitions Try to acquire at least 12,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Acquire 80% of the "best of year" lists. |
| Finding | Collection Development The number of titles received continues to vary from year to year. The policy of buying only one copy of a title and purchasing paperback editions whenever possible has helped maintain the number of books received relatively constant level. In 2007, there was a slight increase in the number of titles purchased; due moving shifting funds from the Library’s O & M. 12,000 titles were acquired. |
| Criteria | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC''s WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Finding | Collection Evaluation Database was sent to OCLC in May of 2007. Committee was established to revise the collection developmen policy. |
| Indicator | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC's WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Indicator | Direct To Faculty Add newly published (last 2 years) research monographs requested by faculty through ILL to satisfy immediate and long term needs. |
| Criteria | Direct from faculty Order 100% of all new monographs requested by faculty, cost less than $100. |
| Indicator | Faculty Direct Deliver books and articles from the SHSU collection to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Criteria | Faculty direct Provide SHSU owned books and articles to faculty in their offices and on their desktops within 3 work days. |
| Finding | Direct to faculty Ordered 12 titles in 2006/07, as reported by Head of ILL |
| Finding | Faculty Direct Books and articles from the SHSU collection were promptly delievered to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that the faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Criminal Justice. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2007 the mean was 3.90. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Librarians met with new faculty member in face to face to session. The Library director met with new faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| Indicator | Information Access Users will be able to identify resources through the online catalog. |
| Criteria | Catalog material Catalog 95% of all materials acquired; add bibliographic records as needed for new collections (various media). |
| Criteria | Interlibrary loan Provide ILL materials to users with in 7 to 10 days. |
| Finding | Interlibrary Loan Article and books are recieved and processed between 4 and 9 days. |
| Criteria | Web-based resources Achieve a 10% increase in the usage of web-based resources. |
| Finding | Web based resources The electronic collection increased by 9%. The increase is substantial although slightly less than expected. |
| Indicator | Information Resources Participation in strategic partnerships. |
| Indicator | Instructional Sessions Increase the number and type of instructional sessions |
| Criteria | Instructional Sessions Increase the number of instructional session by 10%. |
| Finding | Instructional Sessions The number of Library Instruction sessions has been relatively stable for a number of years. In 2004 a renovation project required librarians to become mobile and take instruction to classrooms and computer labs across campus, thus reducing the number of sessions. In FY 2005 the number of instruction sessions increased by 33%. In 2006 the number of instruction session remained stable; the number of presentations increased by 20% in 2007. Librarians provide instruction at The University Center and at other off campus sites. |
| Finding | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Faculty When the Library Instruction Librarian resigned, the data was not pass on the new coordinator. |
| Finding | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Students Feedback from students partipating in Instruction Sessions shows a decline of 2 to 3 percent on the questions of the relevance of the presentation to their assignment/course and that the examples were clear from the previous 2 years. While 95 percent of the total respondents answered the questions about relevance to their course/assignment, only 42 percent of the respondents answered the question about the examples. The target was that 95% percent of the respondents would find the class relevant and the examples clear, and the feedback indicates that this criterion was met. |
| Criteria | Instructional tools Increase the number of instructional tools,guides (by 20%) and tutorials (by 10%). |
| Finding | Instructional Tools Online tutorials were revised in FY 2006 and FY 2007. This increased the number of tutorials by 60%. Two subject guides were revised and 2 new course guides were created. |
| Indicator | Library Instruction, Evaluation Evaluate instructional sessions to determine how well the session met the instructional objective of the class. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Faculty Determine base from first year data. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Students Maintain a 95% relavency rate as measured by questions on the relevance to assignment/course and clearness of the examples as using the student''s self report. |
| Indicator | New Course Reviews Librarians review new courses and programs to determine adequacy of the collection. |
| Criteria | Course Reviews If course review indicates,acquire materials as needed within budgetary constains. |
| Finding | Course Reviews While most course reviews indicate the library can support the course with access to electronic resource, such areas as urban geography, and tourism required updating the monographic collection. See attachment for example of course evaluation. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Open House Hold an open house for faculty to introduce new resources and publicize services. Open house provides an opportunity for faculty talk with librarians about their needs for research and their courses. |
| Indicator | Partnerships/Consortia Participate in strategic partnerships for productive collaboration with the state, region, nation and campus.Librarians will use authoritative, evaluative selection tools. |
| Criteria | Partnerships Use membership in consortia to share resources and acquire new resources when opportunity and budget allow. |
| Finding | Partnerships All together our participation in partnerships/consortia provide access to 60% of the databases available to the SHSU community. TexShare, the state resource sharing project, provides access one-third of our total holdings. |
| Indicator | Resource Delivery Provide materialsnot owned by SHSU requested through ILL, accurately and efficently. |
| Indicator | Review ILL Request Review ILL requests to determine need add monographs and journals to the collection |
| Criteria | Book review, ILL Add books frequently requested by students and faculty that support the curriculum and research. |
| Finding | Book review, ILL No books were identified. |
| Criteria | Journal review, ILL Add journals when ILL cost exceeds subscription cost. |
| Finding | Journal review, ILL Ordered Journal of analytical toxicology, 0146-4760. The number of requests requiring royality payment exceed the subscription cost. |
| Indicator | Satisfaction Satisfaction will be demonstrated by an increase in the service adequacy score on the LibQual+ Survey. |
| Criteria | User Satisfaction Library will excee the minimum expection of the user on the LibQual+ survey (given every 5 to 7 years). |
| Finding | User Satisfaction Did not participate in 2007. Participation may be in 2009. |
| Indicator | Self Report Use student self report and report from faculty to determine the relevancy of the session to the class. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Faculty Satisfaction Continue to work with faculty to determine their research needs and materials need to support the curriculum. |
| Action | User Satisfaction Find additional means of determining user satifaction, including LibQual+ in 2009. |
GOAL: Collection
| Objective | Website Usability | |
| Improve user access to web based information resources by improving the usability of the Library's web site.
Associated Goals: Collection, Promotion, Services |
| Indicator | Access To Resources Webpage will provide easy access to resources. |
Actions for Objective:
This objective has no actions associated with it.
GOAL: Promotion
| Objective | Digital Archive/Respository | |
| Establish a digital archive making content readily accessible.Plan the structure of a digital repository; identify stakeholders; identify software (turnkey or open source. Associated Goals: Collection, Promotion, Services |
| Indicator | Digital Archives/Repository Identify Special Collections to be added to the digital archive. Identify new digital management software. |
| Criteria | Digital Archives/Respository Digitize 5 collections of family papers. Evaluate digital management systems. |
| Finding | Digital Archives/Repository 7 collections of family papers were digitized. ContentDM was selected as the new digital management system. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Digital Archives/repository Move content from Hyperion to ContentDM. Work with Honors Program and Writing Center to get student participation in Digital Repository |
GOAL: Promotion
| Objective | ILL/Document Delivery | |
| Provide effective and efficent interlibrary loan services/document delivery. Associated Goals: Promotion, Services |
| Indicator | Faculty Direct Deliver books and articles from the SHSU collection to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Criteria | Faculty direct Provide SHSU owned books and articles to faculty in their offices and on their desktops within 3 work days. |
| Finding | Direct to faculty Ordered 12 titles in 2006/07, as reported by Head of ILL |
| Finding | Faculty Direct Books and articles from the SHSU collection were promptly delievered to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Indicator | Resource Delivery Provide materialsnot owned by SHSU requested through ILL, accurately and efficently. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Interlibrary Loan Turnaround time is above what is expected. |
GOAL: Promotion
| Objective | Publicity | |
| Disseminate, more effectively, information about Library resources and services.
Associated Goals: Promotion, Services |
| Indicator | Digital Archives/Repository Identify Special Collections to be added to the digital archive. Identify new digital management software. |
| Criteria | Digital Archives/Respository Digitize 5 collections of family papers. Evaluate digital management systems. |
| Finding | Digital Archives/Repository 7 collections of family papers were digitized. ContentDM was selected as the new digital management system. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Newsletter Publish a newsletter in print and electronically. |
| Criteria | Newsletter Issue first library newsletter. |
| Finding | Newsletter First newsletter was issued in 2007. |
| Indicator | Open House Hold an open house for faculty to introduce new resources and publicize services. Open house provides an opportunity for faculty talk with librarians about their needs for research and their courses. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Newsletter Publish a newsletter each semester. |
GOAL: Promotion
| Objective | Website Usability | |
| Improve user access to web based information resources by improving the usability of the Library's web site.
Associated Goals: Collection, Promotion, Services |
| Indicator | Access To Resources Webpage will provide easy access to resources. |
Actions for Objective:
This objective has no actions associated with it.
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Circulation/Reserves | |
| Provide an effective means for circulation of library materials, including reserves
Associated Goals: Services |
| Indicator | Cirulation Increase the number of items on reserve. Increase the circulation of reserve material and the main collection. |
| Criteria | Circulation SHSU ratio of circulated materials to combined faculty/student FTE will be in the top half of our peer group as defined by the THECB. |
| Finding | Circulation NCES Academic Libraries Survey for fiscal year 2006 indicates SHSU exceeds the state median in circulation transactions per fte enrolled but SHSU is in the bottom half of the peer group. |
| Indicator | Faculty Direct Deliver books and articles from the SHSU collection to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Criteria | Faculty direct Provide SHSU owned books and articles to faculty in their offices and on their desktops within 3 work days. |
| Finding | Direct to faculty Ordered 12 titles in 2006/07, as reported by Head of ILL |
| Finding | Faculty Direct Books and articles from the SHSU collection were promptly delievered to faculty offices and desktops. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Circulation Increase visibilty of new books and monographic collection. Unfortunately, circulation is down nationwide. |
| Action | Direct to Faculty This program will continue next year. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Collection Development | |
| Provide access to print, web-based and locally produced content Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Collection Development Acquire resources that support the curriculum and research using Choice, Library Journal and standard sources. Acquire "best of the year" using list in Choice, Library Journal, Booklist, and other standard sources. |
| Criteria | Acquisitions Try to acquire at least 12,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Acquire 80% of the "best of year" lists. |
| Finding | Collection Development The number of titles received continues to vary from year to year. The policy of buying only one copy of a title and purchasing paperback editions whenever possible has helped maintain the number of books received relatively constant level. In 2007, there was a slight increase in the number of titles purchased; due moving shifting funds from the Library’s O & M. 12,000 titles were acquired. |
| Criteria | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC''s WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Finding | Collection Evaluation Database was sent to OCLC in May of 2007. Committee was established to revise the collection developmen policy. |
| Indicator | Digital Archives/Repository Identify Special Collections to be added to the digital archive. Identify new digital management software. |
| Criteria | Digital Archives/Respository Digitize 5 collections of family papers. Evaluate digital management systems. |
| Finding | Digital Archives/Repository 7 collections of family papers were digitized. ContentDM was selected as the new digital management system. |
| Indicator | Direct To Faculty Add newly published (last 2 years) research monographs requested by faculty through ILL to satisfy immediate and long term needs. |
| Criteria | Direct from faculty Order 100% of all new monographs requested by faculty, cost less than $100. |
| Indicator | Information Resources Participation in strategic partnerships. |
| Indicator | New Course Reviews Librarians review new courses and programs to determine adequacy of the collection. |
| Criteria | Course Reviews If course review indicates,acquire materials as needed within budgetary constains. |
| Finding | Course Reviews While most course reviews indicate the library can support the course with access to electronic resource, such areas as urban geography, and tourism required updating the monographic collection. See attachment for example of course evaluation. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Partnerships/Consortia Participate in strategic partnerships for productive collaboration with the state, region, nation and campus.Librarians will use authoritative, evaluative selection tools. |
| Criteria | Partnerships Use membership in consortia to share resources and acquire new resources when opportunity and budget allow. |
| Finding | Partnerships All together our participation in partnerships/consortia provide access to 60% of the databases available to the SHSU community. TexShare, the state resource sharing project, provides access one-third of our total holdings. |
| Indicator | Review ILL Request Review ILL requests to determine need add monographs and journals to the collection |
| Criteria | Book review, ILL Add books frequently requested by students and faculty that support the curriculum and research. |
| Finding | Book review, ILL No books were identified. |
| Criteria | Journal review, ILL Add journals when ILL cost exceeds subscription cost. |
| Finding | Journal review, ILL Ordered Journal of analytical toxicology, 0146-4760. The number of requests requiring royality payment exceed the subscription cost. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Book Reviews,ILL Will continue next year. |
| Action | Collection Development The policy of buying only one copy of a title and purchasing paperback editions whenever possible will continue. This will help maintain the number of books received relatively constant level. |
| Action | Course Reviews This activity will continue. |
| Action | Journal Review, ILL Program will continue |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Collection Evaluation | |
| Evaluate the collection to ensure it meets curricular and research needs.
Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Collection Development Acquire resources that support the curriculum and research using Choice, Library Journal and standard sources. Acquire "best of the year" using list in Choice, Library Journal, Booklist, and other standard sources. |
| Criteria | Acquisitions Try to acquire at least 12,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Acquire 80% of the "best of year" lists. |
| Finding | Collection Development The number of titles received continues to vary from year to year. The policy of buying only one copy of a title and purchasing paperback editions whenever possible has helped maintain the number of books received relatively constant level. In 2007, there was a slight increase in the number of titles purchased; due moving shifting funds from the Library’s O & M. 12,000 titles were acquired. |
| Criteria | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC''s WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Finding | Collection Evaluation Database was sent to OCLC in May of 2007. Committee was established to revise the collection developmen policy. |
| Indicator | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC's WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that the faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Criminal Justice. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2007 the mean was 3.90. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Librarians met with new faculty member in face to face to session. The Library director met with new faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| Indicator | New Course Reviews Librarians review new courses and programs to determine adequacy of the collection. |
| Criteria | Course Reviews If course review indicates,acquire materials as needed within budgetary constains. |
| Finding | Course Reviews While most course reviews indicate the library can support the course with access to electronic resource, such areas as urban geography, and tourism required updating the monographic collection. See attachment for example of course evaluation. |
| Indicator | Partnerships/Consortia Participate in strategic partnerships for productive collaboration with the state, region, nation and campus.Librarians will use authoritative, evaluative selection tools. |
| Criteria | Partnerships Use membership in consortia to share resources and acquire new resources when opportunity and budget allow. |
| Finding | Partnerships All together our participation in partnerships/consortia provide access to 60% of the databases available to the SHSU community. TexShare, the state resource sharing project, provides access one-third of our total holdings. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Collection Evaluation Revise the Collection Development poicy. Use OCLC''s collection analysis tool to evaluate the collection. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Digital Archive/Respository | |
| Establish a digital archive making content readily accessible.Plan the structure of a digital repository; identify stakeholders; identify software (turnkey or open source. Associated Goals: Collection, Promotion, Services |
| Indicator | Digital Archives/Repository Identify Special Collections to be added to the digital archive. Identify new digital management software. |
| Criteria | Digital Archives/Respository Digitize 5 collections of family papers. Evaluate digital management systems. |
| Finding | Digital Archives/Repository 7 collections of family papers were digitized. ContentDM was selected as the new digital management system. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Digital Archives/repository Move content from Hyperion to ContentDM. Work with Honors Program and Writing Center to get student participation in Digital Repository |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Faculty Input | |
| Provide opportunities for faculty to discuss their needs, research and curricular. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Faculty Direct Deliver books and articles from the SHSU collection to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Criteria | Faculty direct Provide SHSU owned books and articles to faculty in their offices and on their desktops within 3 work days. |
| Finding | Direct to faculty Ordered 12 titles in 2006/07, as reported by Head of ILL |
| Finding | Faculty Direct Books and articles from the SHSU collection were promptly delievered to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that the faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Criminal Justice. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2007 the mean was 3.90. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Librarians met with new faculty member in face to face to session. The Library director met with new faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| Indicator | Library Instruction, Evaluation Evaluate instructional sessions to determine how well the session met the instructional objective of the class. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Faculty Determine base from first year data. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Students Maintain a 95% relavency rate as measured by questions on the relevance to assignment/course and clearness of the examples as using the student''s self report. |
| Indicator | New Course Reviews Librarians review new courses and programs to determine adequacy of the collection. |
| Criteria | Course Reviews If course review indicates,acquire materials as needed within budgetary constains. |
| Finding | Course Reviews While most course reviews indicate the library can support the course with access to electronic resource, such areas as urban geography, and tourism required updating the monographic collection. See attachment for example of course evaluation. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Open House Hold an open house for faculty to introduce new resources and publicize services. Open house provides an opportunity for faculty talk with librarians about their needs for research and their courses. |
| Indicator | Resource Delivery Provide materialsnot owned by SHSU requested through ILL, accurately and efficently. |
| Indicator | Review ILL Request Review ILL requests to determine need add monographs and journals to the collection |
| Criteria | Book review, ILL Add books frequently requested by students and faculty that support the curriculum and research. |
| Finding | Book review, ILL No books were identified. |
| Criteria | Journal review, ILL Add journals when ILL cost exceeds subscription cost. |
| Finding | Journal review, ILL Ordered Journal of analytical toxicology, 0146-4760. The number of requests requiring royality payment exceed the subscription cost. |
Actions for Objective:
This objective has no actions associated with it.
GOAL: Services
| Objective | ILL/Document Delivery | |
| Provide effective and efficent interlibrary loan services/document delivery. Associated Goals: Promotion, Services |
| Indicator | Faculty Direct Deliver books and articles from the SHSU collection to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Criteria | Faculty direct Provide SHSU owned books and articles to faculty in their offices and on their desktops within 3 work days. |
| Finding | Direct to faculty Ordered 12 titles in 2006/07, as reported by Head of ILL |
| Finding | Faculty Direct Books and articles from the SHSU collection were promptly delievered to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Indicator | Resource Delivery Provide materialsnot owned by SHSU requested through ILL, accurately and efficently. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Interlibrary Loan Turnaround time is above what is expected. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Information Access | |
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Provide effective and efficent access to materials needed for research. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Access To Resources Webpage will provide easy access to resources. |
| Indicator | Collection Development Acquire resources that support the curriculum and research using Choice, Library Journal and standard sources. Acquire "best of the year" using list in Choice, Library Journal, Booklist, and other standard sources. |
| Criteria | Acquisitions Try to acquire at least 12,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Acquire 80% of the "best of year" lists. |
| Finding | Collection Development The number of titles received continues to vary from year to year. The policy of buying only one copy of a title and purchasing paperback editions whenever possible has helped maintain the number of books received relatively constant level. In 2007, there was a slight increase in the number of titles purchased; due moving shifting funds from the Library’s O & M. 12,000 titles were acquired. |
| Criteria | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC''s WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Finding | Collection Evaluation Database was sent to OCLC in May of 2007. Committee was established to revise the collection developmen policy. |
| Indicator | Digital Archives/Repository Identify Special Collections to be added to the digital archive. Identify new digital management software. |
| Criteria | Digital Archives/Respository Digitize 5 collections of family papers. Evaluate digital management systems. |
| Finding | Digital Archives/Repository 7 collections of family papers were digitized. ContentDM was selected as the new digital management system. |
| Indicator | Direct To Faculty Add newly published (last 2 years) research monographs requested by faculty through ILL to satisfy immediate and long term needs. |
| Criteria | Direct from faculty Order 100% of all new monographs requested by faculty, cost less than $100. |
| Indicator | Faculty Direct Deliver books and articles from the SHSU collection to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Criteria | Faculty direct Provide SHSU owned books and articles to faculty in their offices and on their desktops within 3 work days. |
| Finding | Direct to faculty Ordered 12 titles in 2006/07, as reported by Head of ILL |
| Finding | Faculty Direct Books and articles from the SHSU collection were promptly delievered to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that the faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Criminal Justice. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2007 the mean was 3.90. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Librarians met with new faculty member in face to face to session. The Library director met with new faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| Indicator | Information Access Users will be able to identify resources through the online catalog. |
| Criteria | Catalog material Catalog 95% of all materials acquired; add bibliographic records as needed for new collections (various media). |
| Criteria | Interlibrary loan Provide ILL materials to users with in 7 to 10 days. |
| Finding | Interlibrary Loan Article and books are recieved and processed between 4 and 9 days. |
| Criteria | Web-based resources Achieve a 10% increase in the usage of web-based resources. |
| Finding | Web based resources The electronic collection increased by 9%. The increase is substantial although slightly less than expected. |
| Indicator | Information Resources Participation in strategic partnerships. |
| Indicator | Instructional Sessions Increase the number and type of instructional sessions |
| Criteria | Instructional Sessions Increase the number of instructional session by 10%. |
| Finding | Instructional Sessions The number of Library Instruction sessions has been relatively stable for a number of years. In 2004 a renovation project required librarians to become mobile and take instruction to classrooms and computer labs across campus, thus reducing the number of sessions. In FY 2005 the number of instruction sessions increased by 33%. In 2006 the number of instruction session remained stable; the number of presentations increased by 20% in 2007. Librarians provide instruction at The University Center and at other off campus sites. |
| Finding | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Faculty When the Library Instruction Librarian resigned, the data was not pass on the new coordinator. |
| Finding | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Students Feedback from students partipating in Instruction Sessions shows a decline of 2 to 3 percent on the questions of the relevance of the presentation to their assignment/course and that the examples were clear from the previous 2 years. While 95 percent of the total respondents answered the questions about relevance to their course/assignment, only 42 percent of the respondents answered the question about the examples. The target was that 95% percent of the respondents would find the class relevant and the examples clear, and the feedback indicates that this criterion was met. |
| Criteria | Instructional tools Increase the number of instructional tools,guides (by 20%) and tutorials (by 10%). |
| Finding | Instructional Tools Online tutorials were revised in FY 2006 and FY 2007. This increased the number of tutorials by 60%. Two subject guides were revised and 2 new course guides were created. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Newsletter Publish a newsletter in print and electronically. |
| Criteria | Newsletter Issue first library newsletter. |
| Finding | Newsletter First newsletter was issued in 2007. |
| Indicator | Open House Hold an open house for faculty to introduce new resources and publicize services. Open house provides an opportunity for faculty talk with librarians about their needs for research and their courses. |
| Indicator | Partnerships/Consortia Participate in strategic partnerships for productive collaboration with the state, region, nation and campus.Librarians will use authoritative, evaluative selection tools. |
| Criteria | Partnerships Use membership in consortia to share resources and acquire new resources when opportunity and budget allow. |
| Finding | Partnerships All together our participation in partnerships/consortia provide access to 60% of the databases available to the SHSU community. TexShare, the state resource sharing project, provides access one-third of our total holdings. |
| Indicator | Resource Delivery Provide materialsnot owned by SHSU requested through ILL, accurately and efficently. |
| Indicator | Self Report Use student self report and report from faculty to determine the relevancy of the session to the class. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Faculty Direct This program will continue next year |
| Action | New Faculty Orientation Program will continue. |
| Action | Partnerships Continue identifying relationships that will help increase library resources. |
| Action | Web based resources Within in budget constrains, add additional web based resources. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Information Resources | |
| Increase the scope and depth of information resources to support research and the curriculum.
Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Collection Development Acquire resources that support the curriculum and research using Choice, Library Journal and standard sources. Acquire "best of the year" using list in Choice, Library Journal, Booklist, and other standard sources. |
| Criteria | Acquisitions Try to acquire at least 12,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Acquire 80% of the "best of year" lists. |
| Finding | Collection Development The number of titles received continues to vary from year to year. The policy of buying only one copy of a title and purchasing paperback editions whenever possible has helped maintain the number of books received relatively constant level. In 2007, there was a slight increase in the number of titles purchased; due moving shifting funds from the Library’s O & M. 12,000 titles were acquired. |
| Criteria | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC''s WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Finding | Collection Evaluation Database was sent to OCLC in May of 2007. Committee was established to revise the collection developmen policy. |
| Indicator | Direct To Faculty Add newly published (last 2 years) research monographs requested by faculty through ILL to satisfy immediate and long term needs. |
| Criteria | Direct from faculty Order 100% of all new monographs requested by faculty, cost less than $100. |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that the faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Criminal Justice. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2007 the mean was 3.90. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Librarians met with new faculty member in face to face to session. The Library director met with new faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| Indicator | Information Access Users will be able to identify resources through the online catalog. |
| Criteria | Catalog material Catalog 95% of all materials acquired; add bibliographic records as needed for new collections (various media). |
| Criteria | Interlibrary loan Provide ILL materials to users with in 7 to 10 days. |
| Finding | Interlibrary Loan Article and books are recieved and processed between 4 and 9 days. |
| Criteria | Web-based resources Achieve a 10% increase in the usage of web-based resources. |
| Finding | Web based resources The electronic collection increased by 9%. The increase is substantial although slightly less than expected. |
| Indicator | Information Resources Participation in strategic partnerships. |
| Indicator | New Course Reviews Librarians review new courses and programs to determine adequacy of the collection. |
| Criteria | Course Reviews If course review indicates,acquire materials as needed within budgetary constains. |
| Finding | Course Reviews While most course reviews indicate the library can support the course with access to electronic resource, such areas as urban geography, and tourism required updating the monographic collection. See attachment for example of course evaluation. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Open House Hold an open house for faculty to introduce new resources and publicize services. Open house provides an opportunity for faculty talk with librarians about their needs for research and their courses. |
| Indicator | Review ILL Request Review ILL requests to determine need add monographs and journals to the collection |
| Criteria | Book review, ILL Add books frequently requested by students and faculty that support the curriculum and research. |
| Finding | Book review, ILL No books were identified. |
| Criteria | Journal review, ILL Add journals when ILL cost exceeds subscription cost. |
| Finding | Journal review, ILL Ordered Journal of analytical toxicology, 0146-4760. The number of requests requiring royality payment exceed the subscription cost. |
Actions for Objective:
This objective has no actions associated with it.
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Library Instruction | |
| Provide course related library instruction. Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that the faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Criminal Justice. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2007 the mean was 3.90. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Librarians met with new faculty member in face to face to session. The Library director met with new faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| Indicator | Instructional Sessions Increase the number and type of instructional sessions |
| Criteria | Instructional Sessions Increase the number of instructional session by 10%. |
| Finding | Instructional Sessions The number of Library Instruction sessions has been relatively stable for a number of years. In 2004 a renovation project required librarians to become mobile and take instruction to classrooms and computer labs across campus, thus reducing the number of sessions. In FY 2005 the number of instruction sessions increased by 33%. In 2006 the number of instruction session remained stable; the number of presentations increased by 20% in 2007. Librarians provide instruction at The University Center and at other off campus sites. |
| Finding | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Faculty When the Library Instruction Librarian resigned, the data was not pass on the new coordinator. |
| Finding | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Students Feedback from students partipating in Instruction Sessions shows a decline of 2 to 3 percent on the questions of the relevance of the presentation to their assignment/course and that the examples were clear from the previous 2 years. While 95 percent of the total respondents answered the questions about relevance to their course/assignment, only 42 percent of the respondents answered the question about the examples. The target was that 95% percent of the respondents would find the class relevant and the examples clear, and the feedback indicates that this criterion was met. |
| Criteria | Instructional tools Increase the number of instructional tools,guides (by 20%) and tutorials (by 10%). |
| Finding | Instructional Tools Online tutorials were revised in FY 2006 and FY 2007. This increased the number of tutorials by 60%. Two subject guides were revised and 2 new course guides were created. |
| Indicator | Self Report Use student self report and report from faculty to determine the relevancy of the session to the class. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Instructional Sessions Provide instructor with training. Continue program |
| Action | Instructional Tools Provide new tools to access information. Revise tools. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Library Instruction Evaluation | |
| Evaluate instructional sessions to determine how well the session met the instructional objectives of the class Associated Goals: Services |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that the faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Criminal Justice. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2007 the mean was 3.90. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Librarians met with new faculty member in face to face to session. The Library director met with new faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Library Instrtuction, Evaluation, Students Program will continue. |
| Action | Library Instruction, Evaluation, Faculty Base data will collected for FY 2007. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Publicity | |
| Disseminate, more effectively, information about Library resources and services.
Associated Goals: Promotion, Services |
| Indicator | Digital Archives/Repository Identify Special Collections to be added to the digital archive. Identify new digital management software. |
| Criteria | Digital Archives/Respository Digitize 5 collections of family papers. Evaluate digital management systems. |
| Finding | Digital Archives/Repository 7 collections of family papers were digitized. ContentDM was selected as the new digital management system. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Newsletter Publish a newsletter in print and electronically. |
| Criteria | Newsletter Issue first library newsletter. |
| Finding | Newsletter First newsletter was issued in 2007. |
| Indicator | Open House Hold an open house for faculty to introduce new resources and publicize services. Open house provides an opportunity for faculty talk with librarians about their needs for research and their courses. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Newsletter Publish a newsletter each semester. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Training/Development | |
| Provide oportunities for training and professional development to increase skill and knowledge to meet the changing needs of the library and its users.
Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Development/training Librarians and staff will participate in training and professional development activities. |
| Criteria | Training and Professional 50% of Library faculty will attend professional meetings. Training sessions will be provided for faculty and staff. |
Actions for Objective:
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GOAL: Services
| Objective | User Satisfaction | |
| Improve user satisfaction with library services
Associated Goals: Collection, Services |
| Indicator | Access To Resources Webpage will provide easy access to resources. |
| Indicator | Collection Development Acquire resources that support the curriculum and research using Choice, Library Journal and standard sources. Acquire "best of the year" using list in Choice, Library Journal, Booklist, and other standard sources. |
| Criteria | Acquisitions Try to acquire at least 12,000 new titles, as the budget will allow. Acquire 80% of the "best of year" lists. |
| Finding | Collection Development The number of titles received continues to vary from year to year. The policy of buying only one copy of a title and purchasing paperback editions whenever possible has helped maintain the number of books received relatively constant level. In 2007, there was a slight increase in the number of titles purchased; due moving shifting funds from the Library’s O & M. 12,000 titles were acquired. |
| Criteria | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC''s WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Finding | Collection Evaluation Database was sent to OCLC in May of 2007. Committee was established to revise the collection developmen policy. |
| Indicator | Collection Evaluation Move from Conspectus to OCLC's WorldCat Collection Analysis. |
| Indicator | Direct To Faculty Add newly published (last 2 years) research monographs requested by faculty through ILL to satisfy immediate and long term needs. |
| Criteria | Direct from faculty Order 100% of all new monographs requested by faculty, cost less than $100. |
| Indicator | Faculty Direct Deliver books and articles from the SHSU collection to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Criteria | Faculty direct Provide SHSU owned books and articles to faculty in their offices and on their desktops within 3 work days. |
| Finding | Direct to faculty Ordered 12 titles in 2006/07, as reported by Head of ILL |
| Finding | Faculty Direct Books and articles from the SHSU collection were promptly delievered to faculty offices and desktops. |
| Indicator | Faculty Satisfaction Continuous improvement in faculty satifaction with library support of research and curriculum. |
| Criteria | Faculty satisfaction Library will maintain a 4 rating on the annual Faculty Senate Survey. |
| Finding | Faculty Satisfaction The response to the Faculty Senate Survey shows that the faculty is more than satisfied with Library Services. Since 2001 the satisfaction score has increased with a slight dip in 2007. A review of each college’s response shows a mean for Library Service of over 4.0 for all but Criminal Justice. While the Faculty’s view of Library Services supporting the curriculum is not significantly lower than the support for research, the results are lower, in 2007 the mean was 3.90. The Library continues to talk with Departments and individual faculty members about these results. |
| Criteria | New faculty orientation Meet with new faculty during orientation. Librarians will meet with all new faculty in their subject area. |
| Finding | New Faculty Orientation Librarians met with new faculty member in face to face to session. The Library director met with new faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| Indicator | Information Access Users will be able to identify resources through the online catalog. |
| Criteria | Catalog material Catalog 95% of all materials acquired; add bibliographic records as needed for new collections (various media). |
| Criteria | Interlibrary loan Provide ILL materials to users with in 7 to 10 days. |
| Finding | Interlibrary Loan Article and books are recieved and processed between 4 and 9 days. |
| Criteria | Web-based resources Achieve a 10% increase in the usage of web-based resources. |
| Finding | Web based resources The electronic collection increased by 9%. The increase is substantial although slightly less than expected. |
| Indicator | Information Resources Participation in strategic partnerships. |
| Indicator | Instructional Sessions Increase the number and type of instructional sessions |
| Criteria | Instructional Sessions Increase the number of instructional session by 10%. |
| Finding | Instructional Sessions The number of Library Instruction sessions has been relatively stable for a number of years. In 2004 a renovation project required librarians to become mobile and take instruction to classrooms and computer labs across campus, thus reducing the number of sessions. In FY 2005 the number of instruction sessions increased by 33%. In 2006 the number of instruction session remained stable; the number of presentations increased by 20% in 2007. Librarians provide instruction at The University Center and at other off campus sites. |
| Finding | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Faculty When the Library Instruction Librarian resigned, the data was not pass on the new coordinator. |
| Finding | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Students Feedback from students partipating in Instruction Sessions shows a decline of 2 to 3 percent on the questions of the relevance of the presentation to their assignment/course and that the examples were clear from the previous 2 years. While 95 percent of the total respondents answered the questions about relevance to their course/assignment, only 42 percent of the respondents answered the question about the examples. The target was that 95% percent of the respondents would find the class relevant and the examples clear, and the feedback indicates that this criterion was met. |
| Criteria | Instructional tools Increase the number of instructional tools,guides (by 20%) and tutorials (by 10%). |
| Finding | Instructional Tools Online tutorials were revised in FY 2006 and FY 2007. This increased the number of tutorials by 60%. Two subject guides were revised and 2 new course guides were created. |
| Indicator | Library Instruction, Evaluation Evaluate instructional sessions to determine how well the session met the instructional objective of the class. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Faculty Determine base from first year data. |
| Criteria | Library Instruction,Evaluation, Students Maintain a 95% relavency rate as measured by questions on the relevance to assignment/course and clearness of the examples as using the student''s self report. |
| Indicator | New Course Reviews Librarians review new courses and programs to determine adequacy of the collection. |
| Criteria | Course Reviews If course review indicates,acquire materials as needed within budgetary constains. |
| Finding | Course Reviews While most course reviews indicate the library can support the course with access to electronic resource, such areas as urban geography, and tourism required updating the monographic collection. See attachment for example of course evaluation. |
| Indicator | New Faculty Orientation Meet with new faculty in orientation sessions at the beginning of the school year and individually. |
| Indicator | Open House Hold an open house for faculty to introduce new resources and publicize services. Open house provides an opportunity for faculty talk with librarians about their needs for research and their courses. |
| Indicator | Partnerships/Consortia Participate in strategic partnerships for productive collaboration with the state, region, nation and campus.Librarians will use authoritative, evaluative selection tools. |
| Criteria | Partnerships Use membership in consortia to share resources and acquire new resources when opportunity and budget allow. |
| Finding | Partnerships All together our participation in partnerships/consortia provide access to 60% of the databases available to the SHSU community. TexShare, the state resource sharing project, provides access one-third of our total holdings. |
| Indicator | Resource Delivery Provide materialsnot owned by SHSU requested through ILL, accurately and efficently. |
| Indicator | Review ILL Request Review ILL requests to determine need add monographs and journals to the collection |
| Criteria | Book review, ILL Add books frequently requested by students and faculty that support the curriculum and research. |
| Finding | Book review, ILL No books were identified. |
| Criteria | Journal review, ILL Add journals when ILL cost exceeds subscription cost. |
| Finding | Journal review, ILL Ordered Journal of analytical toxicology, 0146-4760. The number of requests requiring royality payment exceed the subscription cost. |
| Indicator | Satisfaction Satisfaction will be demonstrated by an increase in the service adequacy score on the LibQual+ Survey. |
| Criteria | User Satisfaction Library will excee the minimum expection of the user on the LibQual+ survey (given every 5 to 7 years). |
| Finding | User Satisfaction Did not participate in 2007. Participation may be in 2009. |
| Indicator | Self Report Use student self report and report from faculty to determine the relevancy of the session to the class. |
Actions for Objective:
| Action | Faculty Satisfaction Continue to work with faculty to determine their research needs and materials need to support the curriculum. |
| Action | User Satisfaction Find additional means of determining user satifaction, including LibQual+ in 2009. |
GOAL: Services
| Objective | Website Usability | |
| Improve user access to web based information resources by improving the usability of the Library's web site.
Associated Goals: Collection, Promotion, Services |
| Indicator | Access To Resources Webpage will provide easy access to resources. |
Actions for Objective:
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