Introduction
This report presents the Library's achievements from July 2004-June 2005, 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:
- Construction:
The new Library
An expansion of the Library Cafe
- Transition, from print repository to:
Technology hub
Cultural center
Art gallery
- Technology:
For teaching
For students
For information management and delivery
This year, our third in the new building, has given us breathing room we’ve not had for many years. We feel
As the year closes, the Library continues in its exciting yet somewhat unexpected new role as cultural center.
It will come as no surprise that use of the Library increased by an enormous 37% this year, 692,650 versus
