Government and Geographic Information Services Task Force (GGIS)
June 2005 C-Team Calendar/Timeline
Note: This timeline was developed at the June 2005 C-Team retreat. Due to the passage of time some of these steps may not still be relevant. Some slight adjustments may be required.
2006
- Team name has been changed to GIRC or something
- Marianne Ryan's faculty research project will inform decision-making/planning
- We will have a vision and plan of how we will reach 2010. GPO will be engaged with us on this
- develop model for future regional depository system
- develop model for provision for stable records and urls
- develop plan for database services
- develop an organizational staffing model for GIRC for 2007 (garnered a position for a maps librarian)
- Guidelines will be created for presentation activities – based on vision of 2010 (will be evolving)
- Agreed upon guidelines for organizing and cataloging of the maps
- Replacement of reader/printers (microfilm)
- Inventory current and future skill sets
- Evaluate options for integrating document into discovery tools
- Discuss with BSOS and others on campus regarding datasets
- Draft policy, planning framework documents (umbrella document)
- Core Collection Task Force assess and identify where overlap can be eliminated – what is print and electronic only
- By 7/2006 selection profile is revised – initial step
- Need to revise cataloging profile
- Steps in Government Documents Collection Task Force fall here
- Evaluate the various data sets available and the access mechanisms needed
- Establish an assessment process for garnering people, resources to accomplish all of this, support for CIRC engaging others
2007
- Begun executing plan for vision of database services
- Pilot outreach for non-localized GIS activities
- Begin legacy document scanning project with or without ARL
- GPO will have begun own digitization project. We will build on it.
- Started with hardware investment – digital scanners for film and fiche
- Staff training – new skill sets in GIRC
- Different configuration of GIRC staff and organization
- Clarified role as regional depository and our participation in FDLP
- Head of GIRC – Has leadership role in clarifying role within GPO
- GIRC will access electronic resources on GPO servers, we will manage access to virtual collections with good records, stable url maintenance
- Developed road map for ICPSR like collections on campus
- We have identified the core collection – we will reach consensus on the core collection
- Maps project to catalog is almost two years old
- Document finder web program – this will have been developed
2010
- All GPO collections are available/run on servers by GPO
- Core works that require ergonomics of print are processed and received locally
- Print on demand is available at point of use for users who need them
- Active database collection in GIS area
- Quality service is a significant product – expert, personal, using media that users need, efficient
- Services related to GPO/GIS collection are dispersed across all reference desks
- More developed robust virtual reference service
- Understand how we move away from dependence on depository system for archival access/physical collections
- Larger GIS laboratory with more staff to serve faculty
- Commercial vendors will shift to digitized information
- Tangible collections in McKeldin shrinking by de-selection or storage
- Maps are a tangible collection
- Stronger partnerships on UM campus, ICPSR, commercial vendors, government agencies
- Centralization of service on 4th floor, expansion of teaching role to other librarians
- Government documents are fully integrated into discovery tools
- Load records with urls
- Selectives will not send paper/print documents/publications to government documents
- Users will have virtual access to resources (Citizens will go directly to GPO. They will come to GIRC for research, etc., support)
- Intersection with Maryland State documents will have taken place
