MOBIUS Strategic Plan 2018-2021
Goal 1: Strengthen funding streams and fiscal viability
Objective 1: Expand memberships and partnerships which reduce costs or add new services
Objective 2: Explore contractual services
Objective 3: Explore grants to fund new initiatives, for example, digitization
Objective 4: Evaluate current membership assessment formulas
Objective 5: Finalize an Evergreen marketing plan to offer Evergreen hosting and management services
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Year 1: July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019 |
Year 2: July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020 |
Year 3: July 1, 2020-June 30, 2021 |
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Assist members with highlighting the value and Return on Investment of MOBIUS membership |
Expand memberships and partnerships which reduce costs or add new services |
Explore grants to fund new initiatives such as Digitization
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Expand memberships and partnerships which reduce costs or add new services |
Explore grants to fund new initiatives
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Explore contractual services |
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Evaluate current membership assessment formulas |
Assist members with highlighting the value and Return on Investment of MOBIUS membership |
Expand memberships and partnerships which reduce costs or add new services |
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Finalize an Evergreen marketing plan to offer Evergreen hosting and management |
Explore contractual services |
Assist members with highlighting the value and Return on Investment of MOBIUS membership |
Goal 2: Investigate existing and emerging technologies and services and adopt those which enhance the user experience
Objective 1: Assess membership needs for new services and implement relevant technologies
Objective 2: Strengthen membership awareness of the features of new and existing products
Objective 3: Maintain awareness of the ILS marketplace
Objective 4: Actively participate in product development with vendors
Objective 5: Foster a continuing discussion on academic libraries and learning management systems
Objective 6: Explore other open education resources (OER) in conjunction with MOBIUS OTN membership
Objective 7: Implement linked data as a MOBIUS service project
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Year 1: July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019 |
Year 2: July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020 |
Year 3: July 1, 2020-June 30, 2021 |
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Assess membership needs for new services and implement relevant technologies |
Strengthen membership awareness of the features of new and existing products |
Maintain awareness of the ILS marketplace |
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Maintain awareness of ILS marketplace |
Actively participate in product development with vendors |
Assess membership needs for new services and implement relevant technologies |
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Implement linked data |
Maintain awareness of the ILS marketplace |
Strengthen membership awareness of the features of new and existing products |
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Actively participate in product development with vendors |
Assess membership needs for new services and implement relevant technologies |
Actively participate in product development with vendors |
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Explore other open education resources (OER) in conjunction with MOBIUS OTN membership |
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Foster a continuing discussion on academic libraries and learning management systems |
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Goal 3: Expand collaborative collection development and resource sharing
Objective 1: Explore a consortia or regional institutional repository for digital materials
Objective 2: Investigate software to support the identification of last copies in the consortium
Objective 3: Develop partnerships which enhance collections
Objective 4: Expand and refine gathering and analysis of local and consortia usage data
Objective 5: Investigate the future of the MOBIUS union catalog to better define the scope of the catalog and effect of digitization as a discovery tool
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Year 1: July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019 |
Year 2: July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020 |
Year 3: July 1, 2020-June 30, 2021 |
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Explore interlibrary loan of eresources |
Explore a consortia or regional institutional repository for digital materials |
Expand out of state courier services
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Develop partnerships which enhance collections |
Investigate software to support the identification of last copies in the consortium |
Develop partnerships which enhance collections |
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Expand and refine gathering and analysis of local and consortia usage data |
Expand out of state courier services |
Explore a consortia or regional institutional repository for digital materials |
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Explore a consortia or regional institutional repository for digital materials |
Develop partnerships which enhance collections |
Investigate software to support the identification of last copies in the consortium |
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Expand out of state courier services |
Expand and refine gathering and analysis of local and consortia usage data |
Explore interlibrary loan of eresources |
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Investigate software to support the identification of last copies in the consortium |
Explore interlibrary loan of eresources |
Expand and refine gathering and analysis of local and consortia usage data |
Goal 4: Foster a culture of collaboration and community which engages all stakeholders
Objective 1: Find creative solutions to engage out of state members
Objective 2: Support opportunities for sharing expertise in areas of interest, such as instruction, reference, etc.
Objective 3: Continue work to develop a broad marketing plan/ brand and develop ROI for different constituents
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Year 1: July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019 |
Year 2: July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020 |
Year 3: July 1, 2020-June 30, 2021 |
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Continue to work with a marketing firm to develop a broad marketing plan |
Develop moderated discussion lists around areas of interests |
Find creative solutions to engage out of state members |
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Find creative solutions to engage out of state members |
Find creative solutions to engage out of state members |
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Develop moderated discussion lists around areas of interests |
Work with marketing firm to develop ROI s for different constituents |
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Goal 5: Provide professional development, training and networking opportunities to meet the needs of membership
Objective 1: Strengthen awareness of training on all Innovative products
Objective 2: Utilize Help Desk data to identify training needs of membership
Objective 3: Develop Sierra training videos on the MOBIUS website
Objective 4: Explore additional scholarship opportunities with large groups like ALA, ACRL, etc.
Objective 5: Utilize new and existing partnerships for professional development and networking opportunities
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Year 1: July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019 |
Year 2: July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020 |
Year 3: July 1, 2020-June 30, 2021 |
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Utilize Help Desk data to identify training needs of membership |
Develop Sierra training videos on the MOBIUS website |
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Utilize new and existing partnerships for professional development and networking opportunities |
Explore additional scholarship opportunities |
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Strengthen awareness of training on Sierra for new and existing staff |
Strengthen awareness of training on Sierra for new and existing staff |
Develop Sierra training videos on the MOBIUS website |
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Develop Sierra training videos on the MOBIUS website |
Utilize new and existing partnerships for professional development and networking opportunities |
Strengthen awareness of training on Sierra for new and existing staff |
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Explore additional scholarship opportunities |
Explore additional scholarship opportunities |
Utilize Help Desk data to identify training needs of membership |