How does an organization best position
itself for the future? How do we insure
that our decisions remain true to who we are and what we believe in? Those of us working in the University
Libraries have recently spent some time coming to consensus on what our values
are as a Library. Values represent our guiding principles: our broadest
motivations, influencing the attitudes we hold and how we act. Perhaps not surprisingly we came to pretty
clear consensus, and the results are described here
To move forward, though, those values need
to be reflected in our priorities in a difficult budget environment, and a list
of those priorities is found here.
Readers may not always care too much about
the details of things like our library systems, for example, but we hope that
you will appreciate the care and effort that goes into the choices we make
about which to use and how we prepare ourselves to use them to serve you
better. Over the coming days, we will
post short stories about some of our priorities and why they matter, and we
will share our thinking behind the choices we made that led us to adopt these
priorities.
Dean Bazirjian also wanted to insure that
our values and priorities were consciously linked, so we produced a chart
for our own use and that of our university administration as a way
of checking to make sure that the two were synchronized. We hope you will find our thinking helpful in
understanding where the University Libraries are going. (click on image below to enlarge it)
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