Action 1.A.2: Create a program of curricular consultation and outreach to high school teachers and school librarians at KU's top feeder schools.

Accomplishments:

• Reviewed literature on outreach to high schools/students transitioning from high school to university/academic library involvement
• Reviewed models of academic library involvement in 12-13 transitioning online (libguides/websites)
• Discussed way to work efficiently and effectively with high school faculty on information literacy skills and research assignment design
• Began outlining ways to implement ways to connect with high school faculty over the next year.

Action 1.B.1: Create programming and curricular support to integrate library resources and information literacy concepts into the Common Book program.

Accomplishments:

• Completed a review of how libraries are involved with Common Book programs at other institutions
• Wrote and approved a Statement of Work for the project team, working through the Action Plan Documentation document
• Defined both the desired future state and the present state, as well as identified the gaps/barriers/obstacles between the present and desired future state

Action 1.B.2: Develop a coordinated information literacy and research skills program for first-year seminar courses.

Accomplishments:

• Met with library faculty and staff who provided instruction for First Year Seminars in fall 2012, where we collected information on the nature of collaboration with FYS faculty, what was taught in the instruction sessions, and how they interacted with FYS students
• Began drafting questions for a survey to give to FYS faculty, which will solicit feedback on collaboration with librarians and library staff on assignments, as well as perceptions of their students’ research skills

Action 1.B.3: Collaborate with the Learning Community program to develop and support information literacy in the curriculum.

Accomplishments:

• Reviewing literature related to libraries' involvement in and participation with Learning Communities at other institutions
• Contacted individuals on campus who worked with Learning Communities at KU in the past to collect information on the former program

Action 1.C.1: Develop and expand outreach, instruction and consulting services designed to enhance graduate students’ ability to discover, access, and analyze needed scholarly resources.

Accomplishments:

• Literature review completed
• Met with Humanities and SciTech subject councils
• Developed and administered internal survey (within library) to gather information on KU Libraries’ faculty and staff outreach, instruction, consulting and any other services that enhance graduate students’ ability to discover, access and analyze scholarly resources to support their research. (35 respondents)

Action 1.D.2: Partner with the Center for Online and Distance Learning and collaborate with individual department/schools to embed the Libraries in online and distance learning activities.

Accomplishments:

• Reviewed LibGuides for Distance Learning
• Explored ways subject librarians can support distance education and how we can support subject librarians

Action 1.D.4: Integrate digital learning objects strategically into KU courses.

Accomplishments:

• Identified the need for video tutorials and contacted the relevant SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) for these areas to request scripts
• Identified good topics for LibGuides: Research Assignment Design; Citation Guides; and Copyright (now published)

Action 1.E.1: Develop an instruction and outreach plan for integration of information literacy and critical thinking skills into the undergraduate curriculum, at all levels and potential entry points.

Accomplishments:

• Developed a Statement of Work that outlines objectives, goals, context, deliverables and scope
• Established member roles, responsibilities and ground rules
• Selected a chair (Carmen Orth-Alfie)
• Determined that, in order to complete work, information from the other Goal 1 strategy teams is required

Action 2.A.1: Improve discovery of resources through systems that bring together search results across multiple collections with varied origin, location and format.

Accomplishments:

• Libguides indexed
• Database resource indexing improved
• Additional stats identified and gathered
• Submitted several defect reports to vendor
• Refined Luna indexing
• Created LibGuides widgets
• Drafted and refined video tutorials for spring launch
• Primo upgraded to most recent major release
• Identified enhancements for early spring semester

Action 2.A.2: Enhance discovery of collections through rich communications channels such as social networking, and through the efficient and systematic creation, management and exposure of accurate, appropriate metadata.

Accomplishments:

• Created initial high-level project plan
• Began first phase work on documenting and analyzing metadata creation management workflows for Spencer Digital work and KUSW submissions

Action 2.A.3: Develop and implement inter-institutional plans for shared access to, and delivery of, print and digital collections.

Accomplishments:

• Agreed that the initial focus of this action item would be in 2 areas: KU Libraries participation in the WEST (Western Regional Storage Trust); and implementation of HathiTrust
• WEST project updates include: agreed upon Silver and Gold titles to store and preserve; submitted serial holdings information for analysis for next round of titles to be considered for storage; developed timeline for this period’s Silver and Gold validation and reporting process; work continues in processing the Silver and Gold titles; Lars Leon was invited to participate in the WEST Access & Delivery Committee
• HathiTrust updates include: completed license agreement with HathiTrust; completed work with IT and HathiTrust to establish implement authentication protocols; completed work to extract bibliographic holdings information for HathiTrust; press release distributed Jan. 2013; developed LibGuide for HathiTrust; ongoing internal promotion of HathiTrust

Action 2.B.1: Assess and evaluate the research and scholarly information needs and expectations of KU faculty and graduate students.

Accomplishments:

• Identified first phase of implementation (survey of faculty, researchers and graduate students)
• Developed research questions and objectives to inform the first phase
• Completed assessment chart for Strategy 2B
• Conducted literature review of library and non-library assessment of changing researcher needs

Action 2.C.1: Strengthen KU Libraries' position as a national and international leader on scholarly communication issues.

Accomplishments:

• Dean Haricombe served as keynote speaker on October 22, 2012, during Open Access Week at the University of Hawaii (Honolulu). Her presentation was titled “Open Access: An evolving alternative publishing model or a maturing threat?”
• Dean Haricombe served as a moderator for a session called "Benefits of Open Access for Scholarship and Wider Society" at the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa, on November 8, 2012.

Action 2.D.1: Partner with KU Information Technology (IT), Research and Graduate Studies (RGS) and other campus groups to develop, cultivate, manage and support access to data collections.

Action 2.D.4: Design and implement an enhanced program of consultation, interaction and education with KU’s producers and consumers of research data.

Accomplishments:

• Completed the whitepaper “KU Libraries Digital Data Strategy,” which provides more contexts for our work, and shared it with Dean, AD of Collections & Scholar Services, ORT and SPOT co-chairs; the document refines the actions that the team will work on in the coming year and some of the resources we may be asking for, and also outlines a structure to deliver these services and some models at other universities

Action 2.E.1: Participate in shaping and developing emerging library and scholarly technology standards, practices and tools through participation in regional and national communities aligned with KU Libraries' priorities for scholarly communication and research.

Accomplishments:

• Compiled large list of potential opportunities for participation by area and method
• Created initial high-level project plan

Action 3.B.1: Develop and deliver learning opportunities to foster knowledge of current trends in research and scholarly communications.

Accomplishments:

No updates to report this period.

Action 3B.3: Develop a comprehensive professional development and continuing education program related to pedagogy/learning theories and integrating information resources and research skills into the curriculum.

Accomplishments:

No updates to report this period.

Action 3.C.3: Create informal and formal venues for library faculty and staff to share their research and expertise with colleagues.

Accomplishments:

No updates to report this period.

Action 4.C.1: Revise our donor communications strategy and tactics to align with Far Above, the university’s comprehensive campaign.

Accomplishments:

• Currently reviewing/redefining stakeholders included in the donor communications strategic plan
• Seeking guidance on plan framework from KU Public Affairs
• Preparing to present preliminary draft communications plan for input and vetting to the KU Libraries Board of Advocates in February

Action 4.C.2: Create and grow partnerships to expand our potential donor base.

Accomplishments:

• Hired, trained and deployed an events coordinator
• Engaging in conversations with KUAA to expand engagement opportunities in Kansas and beyond
• Gathering donor data and discussing potential engagement plans for alumni and donors in Salina, Topeka, Wichita and Kansas City
• Gathering donor data and discussing potential engagement plans for alumni and donors in Denver, Dallas, Houston and Chicago

Action 4.C.3: Prioritize and expand fundraising goals to support the Libraries’ strategic priorities.

Accomplishments:

No updates to report this period.