Introduction

This report presents the Library's achievements from March 2002 through June 2003, together with our planning efforts and aspirations for the future. The context is the College's Strategic Plan 2000-2005 <http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/president/planning/final/enter.htm> and its three principal themes:

Maintaining and Enhancing Academic Quality
Assuring a Student Oriented Campus
Becoming a Model Citizen in the Borough of Brooklyn

The Library is a large and complex organization with multiple initiatives. Because of this, our own themes are interwoven with those chosen by the College:

Building (the new Library; an expansion of the Library Cafe)
Transition

... from our several temporary homes, back to the Once & Future Library
... from print to electronic information formats
... from the traditional classroom to the World Wide Web

Technology (for teaching; for students; for information delivery)

This year has been one of enormous tumult and change for the Brooklyn College Library. We have experienced literally everything from

Hard physical labor, as collections and equipment were moved to the new Library, with much of the work done by Library staff;
Anxiety and uncertainty, as we began to deliver service from a building still largely incomplete; and
Immense joy, as the capabilities and beauty of the new building began to emerge and we reveled in the resonses of students and staff.

At the same time, great joy was juxtaposed with great sadness, as we made the largest journal cancellations and cuts in spending for collections in the Library's history. In a roller coaster year, the CUNY Student Technology fee brought marvelous new innovations, while State funding cuts stripped away essentials. In the end, we occupied the new building, the new building is 99% complete, and staff have reason to take enormous pride in their successes and their triumphs.