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Due to the pilot status of the 2002 LibQUAL+ survey, the survey findings themselves had little influence on subsequent goal setting. Rather, University Libraries elected to follow:
• Goals and priorities set by the University administration
• Formal requests from the Student Government Association for improved facilities and services
• The University Libraries’ need to seek federal funding to expand our digital program
• The University Libraries’ need to remain responsive to collaborative initiatives within ARL, ASERL, and NAAL
• Opportunities for the University Libraries to introduce changes proven successful in other research librariesUniversity Libraries Activities, May 2002-April 2003
Access to Information
1. Extended hours (until 2 a.m. five days a week in Rodgers)
2. Strengthened electronic resources, e.g., Project Muse
3. Reinstated foreign acquisitions programs for French-, Spanish-, and Italian- language publications in support of teaching and research in the departments of history and modern languages
4. Implemented ILLiad software to allow users direct access to placing requesting and to seeing status of those requests
5. Transferred Nursing Collection from HSL to RodgersAffect of Service
6. Developed and implemented new training program for student workers in Gorgas Information Center
7. Transferred student money to create 0.5 FTE position in RodgersLibrary as Place
8. Gorgas Library Design Group was appointed to identify needed improvements
9. Selected and ordered soft seating
10. Designed four new group study rooms
11. Coffee shop opened
12. Added computers in the hallways on either side of the café
13. Painted parts of McLure Library
14. Began circulating free laptops in Rodgers and McLure libraries.Personal Control – no explicit action
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