SILS Vision Document, from Technical Services EL Group

Objective:

Achieve the One University, One Library vision by embracing working in a shared environment, leading others there, and resolving any challenges and issues associated with technical services. 

Vision Statement:

1. We will create not just a common data store, but a shared file that we will all collaboratively work in together, developing shared technical services policies and workflows on an ongoing basis. 

2. We will maximize efficiency by minimizing duplication of effort, data, and local variability in practice.

   1. Creating, importing, or updating bibliographic metadata need only be done once within the UC system for everyone’s benefit (e.g. only one campus needs to process a title change or add a missing access point).  

   2. Even more efficiency might be possible when we align our data with other trusted data sources outside of UC. (Examples of this would be connecting Network Zone bib records to WorldShare Collection Manager updates from WorldCat, availing ourselves of Community Zone data, or connecting authority data to Wikidata for enrichment.) 

   3. Resource files of bibliographic data (e.g. records Shared Cataloging Program, Documents Without Shelves, etc.) need only be acquired and loaded once. 

3. The UC’s collective collection can more realistically be developed and managed strategically and collaboratively. 

   1. The separate silos representing traditional ILS data content and that found in ERMs will be tightly integrated.

   2. The desire to view the RLF holdings as a single collection at two locations can become a concrete reality. 

4. A maximum amount of well-structured data in a single shared system will enable a richer set of report and query possibilities, and increase communication and transparency systemwide. 

5. We will achieve greater potential services by relying on the collective expertise of others in the UC System and beyond (e.g fuller metadata for a wider array of resources).  

6. All of the above will assure we can provide and maintain timely, seamless discovery and access to our collections in the current economic climate, as well as enable us to engage in new and innovative activities (e.g., linked data).