CUNY Master Plan 2012-2016

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THE CUNY MASTER PLAN 2012-2016 national, and global significance. The collaborative will focus on overlapping areas of policy, building on strengths in urban politics and policy, urban environments, education policy and international relations, culture (as befits a university in the heart of New York), and theory. The University will support the Graduate Center as it achieves these goals during the period of this plan. The Graduate Center, in turn, intends to put extra effort into finding the resources it will need, including expanding revenue not only through increased enrollment at the master’s level, but also by increasing research funding and through fundraising. CUNY’s Libraries The University’s libraries—its information resources, services, and spaces—are and will continue to be essential to achieving excellence for CUNY faculty and staff across the spectrum of CUNY’s degree and research programs. CUNY’s libraries have a long, distinguished tradition as an example of the integrated university. CUNY’s libraries share resources, collections, and technologies, across the campuses and beyond, through relationships in the city and state. The CUNY library system consists of the college libraries and the CUNY Central Office of Library Services (OLS). OLS works with campus library faculty to coordinate and enhance library services. OLS provides the University with CUNY+ (CUNY’s online catalog), negotiates University-wide contracts and licenses, manages cost-saving centralized cataloging operations, and subsidizes the CUNY digital library collection. OLS also provides forums for the University’s library community to come together in functional groups for discussion and collaboration. CUNY libraries are linked electronically by the CUNY+ integrated library system, which provides online access to information about the holdings at all campuses, including serials collections and titles that are on order. CUNY+ can be accessed from workstations on campus as well as from any Internet connection. CUNY faculty and students may use and borrow physical materials from any of the University’s libraries regardless of their college affiliation, as well as being able to access onsite or remotely the online resources managed by the central office or their own campus library. CUNY faculty and students can access the electronic resources managed by a CUNY campus library other than their own when they are onsite at that other library. The University licenses a growing number of information resources available over the Web. Librarians work in collaboration with other faculty and students to develop the digital collections and resources needed to support teaching, scholarship, and research. Because CUNY’s libraries work collaboratively in supporting systemwide needs, CUNY is able to leverage the power of the system to negotiate substantial savings on purchases and licenses. CUNY is committed to ensuring that its libraries have the resources necessary to provide the collections and services that support the teaching, scholarship, and research mission of the colleges. Over the next four years, CUNY will also work toward the goal of enabling all faculty and students to have remote access to the entire set of electronic resources subscribed to across the University. 36
MISSION PART ONE Enhancing Student Success Through Information Literacy Information literacy is an aspect of critical thinking, focused on how to find relevant information, assess and evaluate content, and use that content legally and ethically. Information literacy skills are increasingly important as the amount of available information proliferates. CUNY’s library faculty provide information literacy instruction to help students develop the skills necessary to find high-quality, vetted information. Major goals of the Libraries include: • Enhancing information literacy programs to better provide leadership to general education outcomes pertaining to research skills; • Articulating best practices and benefits of for-credit information literacy courses taught in library departments by library faculty or in collaboration with faculty from other departments; and, • Working with colleagues in the New York City Department of Education on initiatives to bridge the gap between research skills sufficient for high schools and those necessary for college. CUNY has already established a set of information literacy learning goals and objectives for students to achieve by the time they complete 60 credits. By 2013, CUNY will draft CUNY- wide information literacy standards for the baccalaureate level, similar to what has already been accomplished through the associate-degree level. The libraries will then work with campus leaders, faculty, and administrators to ensure that the objectives are met. Research Support CUNY’s libraries will continue to deploy emerging technologies such as mobile applications and Webbased services to support teaching, learning, and research. By 2013, CUNY will implement a recommendation service that draws upon the expertise of the scholarly community to suggest resources that researchers may wish to consult, as well as a discovery service that searches across databases to streamline searching and increase CUNY’s return on investment in electronic resources. CUNY libraries already provide a host of options to obtain research support online. Almost all campus libraries respond to phone and email inquiries and some offer instant or text messaging. Several libraries have gone further by joining Ask-a-Librarian, a national network of reference librarians across the country that offers librarian assistance 24/7. Through 2016, CUNY libraries will continue to develop these virtual services to support faculty and student needs. Further, the libraries will work to broaden awareness among all constituencies of important developments in the areas of copyright, open access publishing, and scholarly communication. OLS will work collaboratively with members of the University Faculty Senate to develop a CUNY-wide institutional repository in support of open access. 37
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