Strategic Initiatives, Sample

# Initiative Description
1 Accessibility Audit
Conduct a broad-based audit of the Librarys facilities and practices to ensure compliance
with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.
2 Online Learning
Revise the Blended Learning pilot modules in response to assessment feedback. Build
numeracy module(s) (SUMMER / FALL 2012). Formulate a plan for operationalizing the
Library's online learning program based on the success of the pilot modules.
3 Blended Service
Evaluate the effectiveness of the combined service points from both the user and staff
perspective. Make recommendations to the Leadership Group regarding staffing,
training, referrals, new services to be delivered, etc. Make revisions to the program as
required.
4 Digitization
Develop and implement digital repository infrastructure (technology, staffing,
etc.) Develop and implement digital repository ingest requirements. Develop best
practices and workflows for the program. Set clear goals for digitizing collections to meet
donor expectations.
5
Good Ideas
Incubator
Create a database for staff to log suggestions to enhance quality, cost savings,
productivity, process improvement, revenue generation or morale enhancement. Build
the database using commodity tools (e.g., Google Spreadsheet with form front end).
6
Institutional
Repository
Pursue broad-based campus awareness and use of the Institutional Repository. Update
the marketing plan to reflect priorities and current staffing, incorporating campus
input. Begin 2nd phase of the eTheses submission pilot. Complete systematic digitization
of historical print theses in Mills. Begin planning for digitization of theses in Thode.
7
Library
Development Web
Presence
Create an enhanced web presence for library development to encourage current and
future donors in the library, inform them about events and encourage and facilitate
donations.
# Initiative Description
8
Organizational
Climate
Analyze results from the Library's first Climate QUAL survey. Identify 3-5 areas for priority
action. Prepare an action plan for consideration by the Leadership Group for resolving
identified issues and drilling deeper into issues where more information is required.
9
Ron Joyce Centre
(RJC)
Review and make recommendations for enhancing the Learning Commons @ RJC.
10
Sherman Centre
for Digital
Scholarship
Create a state-of-the-art facility to support interdisciplinary research into digital
scholarship. Achieve designation as a McMaster Research Centre. Identify an Academic
Director. Hold an official Centre launch. Host a regional DH event.
11 Training Plans
Establish a library-wide committee to enhance staff training and development. Create
and co-ordinate the delivery of T&D opportunities.
12 Services & Staffing
Produce a document outlining the services we deliver, the perceived value placed on
those services by our users and the level at which we aspire to deliver those
services. Engage staff in the discussions using multiple forums (meetings, online survey,
etc.)
13 Electronic Books
Conduct a survey of faculty and graduate students to determine satisfaction with
McMaster's e-book collections.
14
Web Site Re-
Engineering
Enhance unmediated discovery / access by rethinking and restructuring the library web
site. (NOTE: Project awaiting arrival of Digital Experience Librarian. Project Statement to
be written at a later date.)
15 Budget Review
Participate in the Provost's review of the Library budget. Include benchmarking against
national comparators (total revenue, percent of total university budget, student FTE
expenditures, etc.) Participate in ongoing discussions regarding the impact of the
University's move to an Alternative Budget Model on the Library.
16 Space Audit
Conduct a comprehensive audit of public and staff spaces to facilitate a deliberate,
evidence-based approach to space use.



JOVEN C.V. BALUYUT