Association of College and Research
Libraries
January 24, 2008
Remarks by
Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student
Affairs
LSU
Outline*
*These are the power point
slides that you would have gotten had I done a power point.
·
Introduction
o
Library
Perspective: Keeping Things “In” or
Checking Things Out
o
Library
Perspective: The Book is Here to Stay
·
Recruitment/Retention
o
Service
Orientation – Have One
o
Provide Tools for
Success
o
Provide Informed Access
o
Take Institutional
Ownership of Issues of Copyright, Fair Use, Plagiarism
o
Have Syllabi on
Hand
o
Tailor
Bibliographic Instruction
·
Strategies to Add
Value
o
Be a University
Citizen
o
Be Faculty; Act
Like Faculty
§
Committees
§
Scholarship –
Application of Learning
§
Take Ownership of
Library Teaching/Library Instruction
o
Collaborate
o
Celebrate Special
Knowledge
o
Budgets
o
Planning
o
Accreditation
§
SACS
o
Student Service
§
Advising
§
University
Studies
·
What Are
Provost’s Priorities
o
Centrality
o
Celebrate Role
o
Manage Well
o
Tie to the
University
o
Be Cooperative
·
How Do Library
Directors Make the Case for More Resources
o
Educate – Be
proactive
o
Plan over the
long term
o
Do analysis
o
Be ready
In Summary
·
Communicate
·
Celebrate
·
Core element –
Central
·
Good Luck