Brooklyn College Library & Office Of Academic Information Technologies
Goals & Objectives
Maintaining & Enhancing Academic Quality
- Providing resources (print, electronic, and archival) that enable students to succeed in their chosen fields of study and allow faculty to pursue their research
- Delivering a broad array of information-related services, including both in-person and virtual reference, a course-centered information literacy program, and outreach services that ensure campus awareness of these services
- Providing access to on-site and remote collections through an integrated Library system (CUNY+), a course reserve program, interlibrary loan and document supply, and the digitization of unique collections
- Preserving the collections for use by both present-day and future scholars
- Ensuring that the campus community has a broad understanding of copyright law
- Delivering a minor in Archival Studies & Community Documentation, in conjunction with the Department of History
- Providing campus leadership for teaching with technology by delivering a comprehensive, individualized faculty training and development program
- Maintaining the networks and equipment students and faculty use to access electronic information, software, and other digital learning tools
- Managing the campus’s Blackboard initiative
- Developing Digital Supplemental Instruction (DSI)
- Building departmental and other academic Web sites
- Providing student computing facilities and associated assistance with a wide range of software and hardware
- Engaging in outreach so that faculty and students are aware of the College’s computing facilities, training
- Positioning the College to support the University’s Master Plan initiatives related to teaching with technology,
- Ensuring that all persons, whatever their physical abilities, have equal access to equipment, software, and digital
Assuring a Student Oriented Campus
- Maintaining a strong reader-centered service orientation
- Providing an attractive, inviting, functional Library facility available on equal terms to persons with all abilities and
- Delivering a rich series of cultural programs for students and faculty alike
- Collecting and displaying a collection of fine art
- Offering internship opportunities for students
- Managing the Morton & Angela Topfer Library Cafe, a high-design student Internet cafe presently under expansion
- Maintaining a comprehensive program of outcomes assessment, utilizing tools such as surveys, data collection and analysis, and suggestion boxes
Becoming a Model Citizen In The Borough Of Brooklyn
- Providing access to collections and services to members of the community outside the College’s gates
- Opening our many cultural programs (concerts, book talks, seminars) to all members of the community
- Opening our exhibits to the public, including the College’s 75th Anniversary exhibit
- Providing library instruction and other services to local high school students and teachers
- Generating training opportunities for students from local high schools
- Providing a paid internship for a recent graduate of a graduate school of library and information science
- Networking internationally with libraries in foreign countries
