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Everything you want to

know about SIL’s

strategic plan in 5

minutes or less

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Keeping Our Focus

Blog

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Goal 1Collaborating across boundaries

2.0

Blog

Editor: Elizabeth Periale

Contributions to blog by

approximately 20 staff

Posts automatically

appear on Facebook

and Twitter

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Goal 2Discovering Information

Edward F.

Caldwell (1851-1914)

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Photographs

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Drawings

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Andrew Carnegie Mansion- The Great Hall

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

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The White House

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Yale Club, New York City

Library

Lobby

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CaramoorEstate Of Walter & Lucie Rosen. Katonah, NY

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Goal 3Connecting with Users

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Staff Survey

On A Scale Of 1 To 5, 1 Being The Worst And 5 Being The

Best, Please Rate Each Of The Services SIL Provides

4.07

3.90

3.29

3.64

4.19

4.11

3.75

3.92

3.58

3.96

0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 3.50 4.00 4.50

On-site collections including

books, serials, maps, microform, etc.

Online Library Catalog (SIRIS - The Smithsonian Institution

Research Information System)

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Smithsonian Digital Repository

Reference/Information Services (Provided by SIL staff, including

instructions on how to use SIL resources)

Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery

Library Web pages

Online Article Indexes and Databases

Online Reference Shelf

Electronic journals

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If A Journal Is Available In Both Print And

Electronic Format, Which Format Do You

Prefer?

Print, 16.7%

Electronic, 70.0%

No Preference, 13

.3%

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How Do You Determine The Availability Of

Journals?

30.0% 26.7%

86.7%

51.7%

0.0%

10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

70.0%

80.0%

90.0%

100.0%

Ask the librarian Look on the shelves

Check SIRIS, the Smithsonian

Libraries on-line catalog

Check the A to Z electronic

journals list

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How Do You Most Often Access Electronic

Journals?

From SIRIS, the

Smithsonian Libraries on-line catalog

39%

From the A to Z electronic journals list

28%

From my home institution

30%

Other (Library of

Congress, via Google) 4%

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Sample Question: Please List The Online

Databases You Find The Most Valuable

52 Users Responded

JSTOR 44

ProQuest 20

Web of Science 9

WorldCat 8

Ovid & ArtNet 3

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General consensus the users

loved our libraries and staff

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What We Are Doing Right

Where We Need To Improve!

More E-journals

Easier & faster ILL services

More copier/scanners (CHM)

Have library staff available throughout the day

Extend library hours to include evenings and

weekends

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Be sure and check out

the complete survey analysis!

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Goal 4Building Expertise

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New ways of

learning &

teaching

Screen Toaster

25 Things

Goal 5Securing Financial Resources

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Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board

Development Committee

Where we are today

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SIL Strategic Planning

Database Overview

And quick fire analysis

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

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Microsoft Access?

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Don’t Worry

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What Can We Do With It?

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Analyze Where Our

Energy Is Directed

131

96

22

19

21

1 COLLABORATING ACROSS

BOUNDARIES

2 DISCOVERING INFORMATION

3 CONNECTING WITH USERS

4 BUILDING EXPERTISE

5 SECURING FINANCIAL

RESOURCES

GRAIN OF SALT

(Go On, Take It)

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Top Three Strategies

Projects:

Library as Center for Research - 22

Forging New Relationships -26

Delivery of Resources -18

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Incomplete, Partial And

Open To Interpretation

Like all knowledge!

Looking to the FutureConversation

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