Table 3 comment cards

• Cluster 4 work group communication
  
• More awareness of bigger context
• Shorter, succint communication in sync for that day
• We don’t know what we do
• Too many meetings but not enough communication. Freedom to talk?
• Moderately sized interest clusters
• Do we really work together? It seems like there are many reports about production what are the reports about other projects/processes?
• Expertise Diffusion: among ourselves, to other librarians and IT folks, to the rest of the institution, how do we get attention? Skills to the masses!
• Meetings, we have too many. Unproductive.
• Communication: among ourselves, with other lib units, with out wasting time, with lib administration, with the rest of the university
• Communications between units. Collaboration across boundaries
• Isolation: feeling unsupported, mission unclear, performance unclear, morale-busting
• Cluster:6 Organizational Issues. Rank: 2
• Administration management of resources
• Reactive Vs. Proactive: is our job to do what comes down to us from our fearless leaders? Or are we supposed to set the agenda? Lead?
• I'd like to see less top=down direction and more TRUST in the intelligence, skills and ideas coming up from the grass roots
• Making our case to those who hold the purse strings
• Other campus stakeholders territoriality exclusion
• What does it take to obtain trust?
• No direction. Authority to select direction. NO more vetoes
• Cluster: 3 Experimentation and innovation rank:3
• I like seeing interesting and informative presentations at conferences. I like it more when the speaker is someone with whom I work.
• Can we generate ideas? Then "hire" a tech person to make them viable?
• Experimentation: permission? Time? Materials? Priorities?
• What happened to our agility?
• INNOVATION
• Embracing risk
• Cluster: 1 Workspace and Software rank: 5
• In the future...a CLEAR, uncluttered workspace that feels good to get to
• Can we please stop paying top-dollar for lousy crap? This is probably bigger in scope than this discussion and this room.
• Our high end equipment=2 better light cameras. Can we scan more difficult, complex, beautiful material.
• Physical Space: what is happening to small campus libraries? (Purdue), can we put a space bid in if some close?, much time wasted in travel
• Efficiency: no drudge work for people (give it to the computers) Automation of common processes
• Cluster:5 assessment and usability Rank:6
• Improve usability
• Assessment Ranking User focus HCL info arch
• Since we are state university, can we connect to needs of smaller groups in state? Do they need to be university-affiliated before we help?
• How do we find most interesting most exploratory material to scan?
• Cluster:2 Services rank:4
• Libraries and the research process: scholarly communications, data curation, collection, embedding libraries, us or IT?
• Archive analog and digital
• Build community spaces around the (digital) collections
• Reformat to provide remote access to content to end user. (analog books, serials, microfilm, glass negatives, etc.)
• Address the needs of future users (aka preservation)
• Continue work in traditional analog preservation work to assure access to printed materials.

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