oakwood college eva b. dykes library 2006-2010. the library’s strategic plan is a blueprint for...
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Oakwood College
Eva B. Dykes Library
2006-2010
The library’s strategic plan is a blueprint for utilizing its resources, directing its operations and achieving its dreams.
It is a picture of its future, organized by determined actions for achieving specific outcomes, consistent with the mission of Oakwood College.
1 The College and Its Various Contexts
2. The College’s Core Values
3. The Eva B. Dykes Library
4. Project Review
5. Challenges
6. Opportunities
7. What Did We Learn?
8. Summary
1896 – Oakwood Industrial School
1904 – Oakwood Manual Training School
1917 – Oakwood Junior College
1943 – Oakwood College
2006 - Request to SACS pending for
University Status
2006 – 1800 students
Dred Scott
Slave Cemetery
Harmonious development of the whole person – social, physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual
Service to God and Humanity
Integration of faith and lifelong learning
Cultural Center for black Seventh-day Adventists
Aim: Education, Excellence, Eternity
Motto: Enter to learn; depart to serve
Mission Statement
Oakwood College, a historically Black Seventh-day Adventist institution of higher learning, provides quality Christian education that emphasizes academic excellence, promotes harmonious development of mind, body and spirit; and prepares leaders in service for God and humanity.
1. Spiritual Vitality
2. Educational Excellence
3. Nurturing Environment
4. Operational Efficiency
5. Resource Development
6. Institutional Relations
7. Technology Leadership
Established in 1973
First African American female to complete the requirements for the PhD degree
Radcliffe
Aoelians
Chair, English Department
Associate Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts, Howard University
Transition Years
2003 – 2005
The Eva B. Dykes Library promotes academic excellence by supporting the College’s curriculum. It provides the Oakwood College community and constituents with access to quality resources and services that enhance teaching, learning, research and the integration of faith.
To develop the Library’s strategic plan
(2006-2010)
College’s Revised Strategic Plan
Recent Leadership Change
Proposed MAPS Program
New General Education Program
SACS Accreditation
Town Hall Meetings
General Education Survey
Friday Summits
Visit by Mentor
College’s Strategic Plan
Library Personnel Feedback
Identify themes
Develop goals for each theme
Identify strategies/objectives for accomplishing goals
Identify outcomes and timelines
Assess impact
Organizational Development & Service
Instruction
Collections
Staff
Facilities
Communication & Cooperation
Technology
1. Organizational Development & Service Goal:
Provide and promote access to resources and services at the time and place of need. Develop the library to become an effective organization that is responsive to user needs.
Departmental Goal: Enrich educational support services.
College Goal: Ensure efficient service and resource management.
2. Instruction Goal – Prepare/Produce an information literate graduate.
Departmental Goal: Demonstrate academic excellence in teaching and learning.
College Goal: Educational excellence.
3. Collections Goal: Enrich teaching, learning and research through collections, access, and content management.
Department Goal: Enrich educational support services.
College Goal: Educational Excellence.
4. Staff Goal: Recruit, support, and retain qualified and competent staff.
Departmental Goal: Recruit competent, qualified faculty (staff).
College Goal: Educational excellence.
5. Facilities Goal: Continue to position and promote the library as a safe place (physical and virtual) that support scholarship.
Departmental Goal: Enrich educational support services.
College Goal: Nurturing environment.
6. Communication & Cooperation Goal:Promote the physical and virtual library’s role in supporting teaching and learning.
Collaborate with campus and community partners, and service providers to deliver optimum goods and service.
Departmental Goal: Enrich educational support.
College Goal: Institutional Relations.
7. Technology Goal: To employ and support current and emerging technologies, allowing users and staff to accomplish their goals.
Departmental Goal: Enrich educational support services.
College Goal: Maintain technologically progressive campus.
Goal:
To employ and support current and emerging technologies, allowing users and staff to accomplish their goals (7).
Strategy:
To implement wireless technology (Summer 2006)
Outcome:
Wireless technology is installed in Summer 2006
Results:
Library users make use of wireless technology with their laptops and those available for loan from Media Resources
Use of Results:
Make decisions for future needs
User Satisfaction (Survey)
Territorialism
Thinking Ahead to 2010
Selling vision of library service to faculty
Getting feedback once document was completed
Changing Directions
Build on recent successes
Willingness among some faculty to participate in library instruction and other initiatives
Mission Accomplished
Living Document
Periodic Evaluation
HBCU Library Alliance
Dr. Janice Franklin
Library Faculty & Staff @ Oakwood College
Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement. Commission on Colleges. Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
"Guidelines for Instruction Programs in Academic Libraries." American Library Association. 2005.http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/guidelinesinstruction.htm (Accessed 03 Feb, 2006)
"Standards for Libraries in Higher Education." American Library Association. 2005.http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/standardslibraries.htm (Accessed 03 Feb, 2006)
Alabama State University. University Learning Resources Center. Five Year Plan for Library Advancement 2006-2010.
Shaw University. Shaw University Libraries. Long Range Plan 2005-2010
Syracuse University Library. Targets for Transformation. 2002.http://libwww.syr.edu/information/strategicplan/ Accessed 01
February 2006.
Arizona State University Libraries. Fletcher Library at the West Campus. 2005.
http://library.west.asu.edu/aboutus/libdocs/strategic04-08.html. Accessed 01 February 2006
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Paulette Johnson, Elizabeth Mosby, George Lee