Oakwood College

Eva B. Dykes Library

2006-2010

The library’s strategic plan is a blueprint for utilizing its resources, directing its operations and achieving its dreams.

It is a picture of its future, organized by determined actions for achieving specific outcomes, consistent with the mission of Oakwood College.

1 The College and Its Various Contexts

2. The College’s Core Values

3. The Eva B. Dykes Library

4. Project Review

5. Challenges

6. Opportunities

7. What Did We Learn?

8. Summary

1896 – Oakwood Industrial School

1904 – Oakwood Manual Training School

1917 – Oakwood Junior College

1943 – Oakwood College

2006 - Request to SACS pending for

University Status

2006 – 1800 students

Dred Scott

Slave Cemetery

Harmonious development of the whole person – social, physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual

Service to God and Humanity

Integration of faith and lifelong learning

Cultural Center for black Seventh-day Adventists

Aim: Education, Excellence, Eternity

Motto: Enter to learn; depart to serve

Mission Statement

Oakwood College, a historically Black Seventh-day Adventist institution of higher learning, provides quality Christian education that emphasizes academic excellence, promotes harmonious development of mind, body and spirit; and prepares leaders in service for God and humanity.

1. Spiritual Vitality

2. Educational Excellence

3. Nurturing Environment

4. Operational Efficiency

5. Resource Development

6. Institutional Relations

7. Technology Leadership

Established in 1973

First African American female to complete the requirements for the PhD degree

Radcliffe

Aoelians

Chair, English Department

Associate Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts, Howard University

Transition Years

2003 – 2005

The Eva B. Dykes Library promotes academic excellence by supporting the College’s curriculum.  It provides the Oakwood College community and constituents with access to quality resources and services that enhance teaching, learning, research and the integration of faith.

To develop the Library’s strategic plan

(2006-2010)

College’s Revised Strategic Plan

Recent Leadership Change

Proposed MAPS Program

New General Education Program

SACS Accreditation

Town Hall Meetings

General Education Survey

Friday Summits

Visit by Mentor

College’s Strategic Plan

Library Personnel Feedback

Identify themes

Develop goals for each theme

Identify strategies/objectives for accomplishing goals

Identify outcomes and timelines

Assess impact

Organizational Development & Service

Instruction

Collections

Staff

Facilities

Communication & Cooperation

Technology

1. Organizational Development & Service Goal:

Provide and promote access to resources and services at the time and place of need. Develop the library to become an effective organization that is responsive to user needs.

Departmental Goal: Enrich educational support services.

College Goal: Ensure efficient service and resource management.

2. Instruction Goal – Prepare/Produce an information literate graduate.

Departmental Goal: Demonstrate academic excellence in teaching and learning.

College Goal: Educational excellence.

3. Collections Goal: Enrich teaching, learning and research through collections, access, and content management.

Department Goal: Enrich educational support services.

College Goal: Educational Excellence.

4. Staff Goal: Recruit, support, and retain qualified and competent staff.

Departmental Goal: Recruit competent, qualified faculty (staff).

College Goal: Educational excellence.

5. Facilities Goal: Continue to position and promote the library as a safe place (physical and virtual) that support scholarship.

Departmental Goal: Enrich educational support services.

College Goal: Nurturing environment.

6. Communication & Cooperation Goal:Promote the physical and virtual library’s role in supporting teaching and learning.

Collaborate with campus and community partners, and service providers to deliver optimum goods and service.

Departmental Goal: Enrich educational support.

College Goal: Institutional Relations.

7. Technology Goal: To employ and support current and emerging technologies, allowing users and staff to accomplish their goals.

Departmental Goal: Enrich educational support services.

College Goal: Maintain technologically progressive campus.

Goal:

To employ and support current and emerging technologies, allowing users and staff to accomplish their goals (7).

Strategy:

To implement wireless technology (Summer 2006)

Outcome:

Wireless technology is installed in Summer 2006

Results:

Library users make use of wireless technology with their laptops and those available for loan from Media Resources

Use of Results:

Make decisions for future needs

User Satisfaction (Survey)

Territorialism

Thinking Ahead to 2010

Selling vision of library service to faculty

Getting feedback once document was completed

Changing Directions

Build on recent successes

Willingness among some faculty to participate in library instruction and other initiatives

Mission Accomplished

Living Document

Periodic Evaluation

HBCU Library Alliance

Dr. Janice Franklin

Library Faculty & Staff @ Oakwood College

Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement. Commission on Colleges. Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

"Guidelines for Instruction Programs in Academic Libraries." American Library Association. 2005.http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/guidelinesinstruction.htm (Accessed 03 Feb, 2006)

"Standards for Libraries in Higher Education." American Library Association. 2005.http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/standardslibraries.htm (Accessed 03 Feb, 2006)

Alabama State University. University Learning Resources Center. Five Year Plan for Library Advancement 2006-2010.

Shaw University. Shaw University Libraries. Long Range Plan 2005-2010

Syracuse University Library. Targets for Transformation. 2002.http://libwww.syr.edu/information/strategicplan/ Accessed 01

February 2006.

Arizona State University Libraries. Fletcher Library at the West Campus. 2005.

http://library.west.asu.edu/aboutus/libdocs/strategic04-08.html. Accessed 01 February 2006

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Paulette Johnson, Elizabeth Mosby, George Lee