| Priority Number | Description of Request | Total FY 1998-99 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Funding Request | |||
| Permanent | Temporary | ||
| High | Automate Student Time Cards - The Library has over 600 student employees when school is in. Labor-intensive, paper-based student timekeeping and payroll functions take up the time of 3 to 4 FTE in Administrative Services, plus clerical support in all the operating units. Implementation of an automated timekeeping system, using the magnetically coded stripes on student ID cards, would result in a significant reduction of the costs of this overhead function. It would free up at least 2 FTE for reassignment to more critical public service functions. | $0 | $60,000 |
| High | Develop Electronic Reserves System - This would begin a program for electronic reserves that would be accessible anywhere on the campus network: in libraries, academic departments and residence halls. A test program in Chemistry proved very successful. Reserves available in this implementation phase would cover 10 large courses (about 10,000 pages). Concurrent student access to these reserve materials would be greatly enhanced, while Library handling costs would go down since check out and check in would be eliminated. The budget would cover the costs of equipment and programming. | $0 | $137,000 |
| High | Implement Self Checkout at Major Service Points - The Library could achieve significant savings in student labor if self-checkout stations were placed at the busiest service points where lengthy queues occur. The requested amount would provide for self-checkout at Main, Moffitt, Business and Engineering. The amount requested could be scaled to trials of different sizes. | $0 | $160,000 |
| Medium | Revenue Generation Unit - A Library Task Force has identified several programs that could generate unrestricted revenue. These range from joint ventures with private entities, to enhanced fee-for-service programs, to customized reference and information retrieval programs. The Library will need dedicated staff to develop these programs into operating enterprises. Funds requested would be used to support such a unit for up to three years while enterprises mature. | $0 | $128,000 |
| Medium | Replace Wyse Terminals - The Wyse terminals are dumb terminals that were installed with GLADIS. As the online catalog moves into the Web environment, these devices are outdated and will be useless for integrated bibliographic research involving Pathfinder, California Digital Library and other Web based resources. They will need to be replaced by personal computers that can provide access to Pathfinder and other Web resources. The budget request would replace all 300 remaining Wyse terminals. | $0 | $600,000 |
| Low | East Asian Library Retrospective Conversion - Bibliographic records for about 80% of EAL's holdings (250,000 volumes) remain outside The Library's online catalog. This makes it difficult for faculty and students to access the material, and makes management of the collection very inefficient. Conversion of the records to electronic format would solve these problems. | $0 | $300,000 |
| TOTAL OF FUNDING REQUESTS |
$0 | $1,385,000 | |
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