17 OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND PRESS
Strategies
1.1. Simplify the library experience.
a. Complete the co-location of service desks in the Valley
Library.
b. Redesign course reserves.
c. Implement updated maps and other navigational systems
for the Valley Library, including seat finding.
d. Implement technology to enable students to find peers
within the Valley Library easily.
1.2. Build a discovery experience that delivers content
immediately and establishes the subject or discipline-specific
contexts for information.
a. Pursue projects to provide greater student access to
electronic textbooks.
b. Fully implement purchase-on-demand (POD) and
patron-driven acquisitions (PDA).
c. Implement Primo as a replacement for 1Search, the
existing unified search tool for all library resources.
d. Realize staff efficiencies and improvements in access to
resources as a result of migration to a shared ILS within
the Orbis Cascade Alliance.
1.3. Redesign physical space.
a. Encourage conversations with faculty and staff across
campus regarding changing approaches to collections to
create flexibility in physical environment planning.
b. Redesign the Valley Library third-floor documents,
microforms, and maps areas.
c. Redesign the Valley Library fifth-floor Special Collections
and Archives Research Center space to enable intensive
interaction with the library’s unique special collections.
d. Create specific study areas to support learning
communities within the Valley Library.
e. Renovate the Guin Library to enhance meeting, office, and
collaborative workspaces.
f. Partner with OSU-Cascades faculty, administration, and
students to identify and address library space needs at the
Cascades campus.
1.4. Support community and learning in virtual spaces.
a. Increase the accessibility of Special Collections and
Archives Research Center virtual collections.
The Collections
and Resource
Sharing Department
provides access to
more than 1.7 million
monographs, over
50,000 e-books,
and over 65,000
unique electronic
journal titles.
