- People in the organization need to know what is happening in development and be part of decision making rather than told after the fact of something Development is doing that directly impacts their work
- Consider creating a staff advisory...
We need an IR, do we also need TDL? With money so tight, we need to ensure we are spending what we have to serve our primary constituents (UT-Austin affiliates) rather than the entire state.
- There should be an evaluation plan in place for TDL,...
If we need to cut and trim, the Texas Digital Library is something from which we derive little benefit. Yet it costs a lot in terms of staff and fees. Online theses and dissertations are important, but those are being served up by UT’s own...
What savings could be achieved by present ourselves online as one library, with one coherent set of services and discovery tools? We currently present ourselves as eleven different libraries, based on building locations, each with a somewhat...
Streamline those operations and reduce or eliminate library programs and efforts whose focus tends to cluster in the bottom 3-5 among our customers’ priorities as consistently defined by the LibQUAL faculty, graduate students, and undergrads....
Consider replacing guards with student and staff. Students during regular work hours and staff after 5pm. The average guard cost is $42,603.75 per year for 4 FTE. We pay for not only the guard salary but fringe benefits, vacation, sick leave,...
