Zusammenfassung der Ressource
SWOT
- Strengths
- Solid foundation for a mission
statement
- "Change lives" through
self-sufficiency and
sustainable farming; share it
with the world
- Wicked Good ILS
- Too good to be true!
- Sister Agnes
- Student mentor
- Excellent
negotiator (re: ILS)
- Acquistions
- HC's e-journal database
- Our Lady's print
material on farming
- FuFoo's books and
journals on farming
(goats)
- Pansy
- Teaching skills
(and loves it!)
- Fred & Ollie
- Experts on cottage farming and goats
- Fits new mission (sustainable farming)
- SQU's satisfied students with
traditional library services
- We have a solid foundation to build upon
- Weaknesses
- ILS(excludes Our Lady)
- HC: Home-made, books
shelved by accession
numbers
- FuFoo: proxy server,
uses SSN's and a spiral
notebook- ancient!!
- SQU: Text-based
Telnet,;first gen
DOS (!!!)
- Fred and Olli'e schedules
- 50 hours/week in
winter, 20 hours/week
during farming
- They're "employees at will"
- SQU's aging staff
- Will soon be leaving the
institution
- SQU's current
collection
- Does not reflect new
mission
- Opportunities
- Availability of committees-
will help with planning
(meetings are set up)
- Curriculum, Long-Range
Planning, HR
- Attorney on
retainer(HR: Just in
case)
- Available funds
- $70,000 (Our Lady)
- $180,000 (HC)
- FuFoo's database budget: $175,000
- Pansy's, Ollie's and Fred's
backgrounds in teaching
- TECHNOLOGY TRAINING RECOMMENDED BY
ACCREDITATION
TEAM!!
- Pansy has taught technology
- Threats
- Mildred/SQU employees
- "How are they going
to fit in?...They're just
not like us."
- Inequality among pay-rates
- Our Lady: cataloging $35,000;
reference $35,000; acquisitions
$35,000; Sister Agnes: $35,000
- HC: reference $50,000;
catalog/acqusitions: $50,000;
Brother S: $60,000
- FuFoo: Fred $38,000; Ollie $37,500
- Brother S re: print books
- "Books will be
obsolete soon"
- Might fight
acquisitions
policies
- Tank
- Rude, bad attitude
- No MLIS degree