Library Information Technology Goals for FY15

1.     Facilitate IT strategic planning sessions with YUL divisions beginning in the summer of 2014, with the goal of developing a 2-3 year IT strategic plan for discussion at LEC by late fall 2014.Underway.

2.     Complete existing project commitments:

• Complete Sanborn Maps, fulfilling Arcadia 5 requirements. This will include adding CAS authentication, allowing Yale-only access to selected items.
• Bring up Fortunoff collection on time. Note: Not all metadata will be ready for December launch.
• Complete Hydra/Fedora storage infrastructure development to support Kissinger scale. Hardware portion done. Software pending.
• Successfully ingest Kissinger content and have access and display layer in beta.
• Bring up public version of Blacklight QuickSearch, initially encompassing Orbis, Morris, and Summon, but with several additional releases during the year to bring in Web search and Hydra collections. Underway.
• Complete Limor Peer research data pilot and seek partnerships with ITS and other Yale constituencies to explore ways to scale up this model.
• Complete Walpole DL migration.

3.     Begin moving from a technology model to a service model in digital collections. Working with user groups and utilizing Jenn Nolte in her new role, develop documentation and procedures to roll out “Simple Digital Collection Creation” as a service that requires no involvement from the LIT Programming group and minimal LIT involvement from other existing staff.

4.     Working with Euan Cochrane and Preservation, develop a digital preservation strategy, timeline, and pricing structure. If our analysis leads toward open source development of tools, take a leadership role in the Hydra/Fedora community and seek both development partners and grant funding.

5.     Continue migrating legacy digital collections to Hydra as time permits, using the service model described above to allow simple migrations to be managed locally (e.g., Medical to do their own migrations from Greenstone). Underway.

6.     Support OAIS model for bag file ingest into Hydra, using Ladybird only as gatekeeper to validate prepared content. This will enable easy ingest of born-digital content.

7.     Support E-Resources in launching all components of 360 Suite. 360Counter up.

8.     Add two new Aeon locations: Medical and Walpole.

9.     Work with Sarah Tudesco to develop LIT stats dashboard in support of both transparency and decision making.

10. Continue development of YFAD replacement.

11. Complete Version1.0 of LibGuides integration with Classes V2. Work with Academic Computing on release cycle for enhancements.

12. Roll out support for new version of Springshare products.

13. ILLiad upgrade and server migration. Done.

14. Continue to be opportunistic in seeking to utilize new ITS services and partner with them on pilots that can lead to cost and resource savings in YUL. Done and ongoing.

15. Utilize Jenn Nolte in new role to increase outreach and communications from LIT to YUL and the greater Yale community. Leverage these services to manage and communicate agile change. Done and ongoing.

16. Complete migration or retirement of all legacy web content and shut down old web servers. Do a better job of highlighting collections and services on web.

17. Develop and make transparent metrics to monitor continual improvement in desktop support services.

18. Develop plan to support staff moves to Winchester.

19. Stretch goals: If time and resources are available, bring up at least one of the following new Digital Collection services:

• Curated Research Data (expanding on Limor Peer pilot)
• Faculty self-archiving
• AV support via Avalon
• Exhibition support