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II. LITS Goals to Achieve The Plan for 2010
Published December 1, 2004
After gathering information from faculty, students, and staff, LITS reached consensus that the Plan for 2010 will change how the community plans and works, but will not change the fundamental character of the College. We will remain a medium-sized, liberal arts college for women. That model of the future College, our own vision of information technology’s contributions to the College, and our commitment to a self-sufficient community serves as the basis for the most important objectives of the organization. These are identified below and come together quite naturally into six major goals that are now the basis of our planning.
1. Make information technology work for the College
- Maintain a secure environment while providing seamless and ubiquitous access to data and information.
- Rationalize and balance central vs. distributed support as a response to pressure to contain costs while meeting rising expectations.
- Train MHC staff to take full advantage of information technology.
- Work with applicable campus organizations, and vendors to further extend, enhance, and develop web services, e-business, and e-commerce.
2. Maintain the infrastructure at acceptable levels of stability and service
- Continually improve our ability to be alert and flexible enough to respond to new forms of and methods of access to information.
- Leverage the Five College relationships.
- Provide resources for a staff development program to keep LITS staff current with changes in information technology.
- Develop and maintain plans for providing access to current technology in the most cost effective and convenient ways.
- Insure that LITS staff is placed within the organization to effectively support existing needs, and future growth.
- Insure that the online catalog and other databases accurately reflect Mount Holyoke’s print and non-print resources.
3. Work with the College Community to support and enhance the curriculum
- Employ LITS student workers in technology mentoring and support positions.
- Continue efforts to upgrade classrooms for multi-media use.
- Develop and maintain programs to train faculty and students in new technology.
- Partner with faculty in managing library collections that support the curricular and research needs of the community both current and future.
- Work with administrative staff at all levels of the organization to enhance their ability to support the academic mission.
- Seek ways to further integrate LITS resources into the curriculum.
4. Improve how LITS communicates and works with the College Community and within itself
- Develop effective internal and external assessment and feedback mechanisms.
- Make better use of the same technology tools we provide to the community to communicate with them about our services and resources.
5. Make LITS spaces, both physical and virtual, responsive to the needs of the College Community
- Continue to create spaces that are conducive to the many purposes LITS serves: research, reflection, and collaboration.
- Re-evaluate and re-design public and staff spaces to reflect new approaches to work.
- Assure that our virtual spaces (e.g., LITS’ Web presence) reflect deeply held values of ease of use and access and encourage critical thinking and evaluation.
6. Sustain, manage and provide access to collections that meet the needs of the community
- Work with faculty to develop collections that support the curriculum and anticipate scholarly trends and support emerging developments in scholarly communications.
- Make appropriate choices in format, purchase vs. rental; ownership vs. access; and location, local vs. remote
- Embrace changes in information management, access and delivery methodologies.
- Acquire, catalog, maintain, and preserve library resources in a variety of formats to support the research, curricular and recreational needs of the community.
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