FY2008 Business Plan
June 26, 2008
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1. Tasks of director libraries
- General Affairs: Organization and operation of the Association and liaison and coordination between other Japanese organizations
- Human Resources: Education and training of staffs
- International Affairs: Works for international operations
- Scholarly Information: Works for scholarly information resources
2. Main activities of the committees
- Committee on General Affairs (Permanent)
Planning of organization, operation and publicity, and works for the JANUL Award.
- New activity plans and Priority issues
- Review of "what the association should be"
- Committee on Human Resources (Permanent)
Planning and carrying out of educational programs for training national
libraries staffs, and examination of treatment of library staffs
- New activity plans and Priority issues
- Review of "what the operation for human resources should be"
- Making a model of career path
- Review of the recruitment and education of library staffs
- Committee on International Scholarly Communication (Permanent)
Expanding Global ILL/DD, continuous cooperation with SPARC, and works for
international scholarly communication
- New activity plans and Priority issues
- Improving the Global ILL/DD and skill up of the ILL staffs
- Exchange of information and cooperation with the concerned parties
both within the country and abroad
- Committee on Scholarly Information (Permanent)
Examination of the trend and issues of developing and diversifying
scholarly information media to collect, provide and conserve scholarly
information uninterruptedly and stably
- New activity plans and Priority issues
- Review of the policy and business organization for contracting negotiation with publishers
Review and realization of organizations and systems to realize
the ideal scholarly information service for university library
(includes cooperation with NII)
- Working Group for the Reform of Scholarly Information Distribution (Continue to 2008)
Examination of plans and resolutions to establish the continuous access
to e-journals toward the reforming scholarly information distribution.
- New activity plans and Priority issues
- Hold a symposium and workshop and try to find a way to break through
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3. Selection and commendation of JANUL Award
4. Continuous operation of Overseas Training Project and examination of the future of the project
This is a final year of this project. Examine the continuity of
the project and a possible budget.
5. Hold a Symposium on Reforming Scholarly Information Distribution
- Date
13:30 to 17:00 on May 1, 2008, Thursday
- Venues
Koshiba Memorial Hall, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
- Theme
Reforming the Scholarly Information Distribution - You might not be able
to access any e-journals?!
6. Hold a Management Seminar
- Date
13:00 to 17:00 on June 25, 2008, Wednesday
- Venues
Sendai International Center
- Theme
University Library as the Scholarly Information Infrastructure - toward
the next middle-term goal and plans.
7. Hold a JANUL Symposium
- Date
September or October, 2008
- Venues and Date
West: Kyoto University Library
East: University of Tokyo Library
- Theme
For the all staffs wish to make ones career as library staff -
seeking an ideal career path system
8. Hold a explanatory meeting of the Electronic Journal Taskforce
Follow up the symposium on reforming the scholarly information distribution
held on May 1, 2008 and examine the policy of the future activities. Hold
a explanatory meeting of the Electronic Journal Taskforce as need demands.
9. Promotion of the Regional Associations
To activate the cavities of the regional association, promote
the business expense to excellent operation plans.
10. Review of the state of the Association
Evaluate the current status of the association and check the following
points mainly at the Committee on General Affairs.
- Election method of the President, Vice-President and Auditors;
the role of each director; the Committee
- The number of directors and division of the regional association
- How to activate the General Assembly