List of Current Strategic Initiatives
Create a preservation system for born digital and digitized materials to meet the needs of the FSU Libraries Digital Preservation Framework in AWS using Archivematica (AM), an open source software. Enable AM to work with the FSU Digital Repository…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Promote Critical Thinking
This strategic initiative will create a group charged with organizing and implementing an on-boarding process for new Libraries faculty and staff. This includes the creation of a workflow that helps new employees understand how the Libraries work,…
Strategic Initiative:
Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Invest in People
The development and implementation of GIS and spatial data services within the library are designed to enhance data information literacy and critical thinking skills throughout the FSU community but with a focus on STEM scholars. This will be done…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Promote Critical Thinking
This initiative will establish a lasting professional development group that spends dedicated time to creating, providing, and facilitating professional development opportunities library-wide. Through programming and sub-committee work this group…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Invest in People
Open Scholars Project (OSP) is an informal forum for FSU researchers and scholars to learn about and share their experiences with open publishing, open source code and open data across subject areas. The OSP aims to create a group that is action-…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Invest in People
The digital project incubator will provide targeted support to a limited number of faculty and student projects in digital humanities and digital scholarship. This incubator program will allow the Digital Humanities Librarian and Digital Scholarship…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Invest in People
As research data instruction has become a priority for the library there is a need for a technical infrastructure to support these efforts. This proposal is to develop a pilot project to test the feasibility of a virtual desktop infrastructure based…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community
This initiative is for the expansion of support for immersive scholarship on campus–this includes research and teaching that utilizes 3D data through the forms of 3D printing, virtual reality, augmented reality, and interactive 3D publications.…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Invest in People
The Human Library Project consists of individuals of various backgrounds that make themselves readily available to scholars on campus, as a “book” to be checked out and interviewed as a means of exploring diversity through open minded conversation.…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Promote Critical Thinking
This initiative would provide ten Wifi hotspots from Mobile Citizen to make available for checkout to students through the ASD Tech Desk for a period of three days. During the pilot timeframe, we will evaluate the need for hotspots based upon demand…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information