FY2009 Business Plan

June 19 2009

1. Tasks of director libraries

  1. General Affairs: Organization and operation of the Association and liaison and coordination between other Japanese organizations
  2. Human Resources: Education and training of staffs
  3. International Affairs: Works for international operations
  4. Scholarly Information: Works for scholarly information resources

2. Reform and Main activities of the committees

  1. Installation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Reform of Scholarly Information Distribution (FY2009 to FY2010)
    Integrate the organizations related to electronic journal, and install a ad hoc committee newly that specializes in the matters of electronic journal. Working Group for the Reform of Scholarly Information Distribution is abolished.
    Main activities
    Construct a new model for the contract of scholarly and electronic journals and examine the issues of the reform of scholarly information distribution in order to collect, supply and preserve the scholarly information such as scholarly and electronic journals smoothly and stably.
  2. Unify the Committee on International Scholarly Communication with the Committee on Scholarly Information
    The Committee on Scholarly Information takes responsibility on the scholarly information distribution which ware took responsibility by the Committee on International Scholarly Communication.
  3. Reform of the Committee on Scholarly Information
    As result of the item 1 and 2, revise the operations of the Committee on Scholarly Information.
    Main activities
    Examine the issues on the increasing and diversifying scholarly information media, systems and services in order to collect, supply and preserve the scholarly information (except e-journals).
  4. Committee on General Affairs
    Continue to be standing.
    Main activities
    Planning of the organization and operations of the Association, and planning and deliberation of the JANUL Award.
  5. Committee on Human Resources
    Continue to be standing.
    Main activities
    Planning and carrying out of educational programs for training national libraries staffs, and examination of treatment of library staffs.

3. Hold a Director's Forum and Management Seminar

  1. Date
    9:00 to 12:00 on June 2, 2009, Saturday
  2. Venues
    Bandai Silver Hotel
  3. Theme
    • Director's Forum
      1. Overview of the 1st medium-term goals and planning
      2. How to construct a attractive library for students, faculties and local residents.
    • Management Seminar
      Ideal way of librarian in the university operations.

4. Hold a JANUL Symposium

  1. Date
    November or December, 2009
  2. Venues and Date
    East: Kanto or Tokyo region
    West: Kinki region
  3. Theme
    Learn from the users: towards the unique and diverse library services

5. Hold a Workshop on Reforming Scholarly Information Distribution

Report the efforts on the issues about the introduction of e-journals and the status of the reform of scholarly information distribution, discuss and examine the future policy.

Explanatory meeting will be held at the regional level if necessary.

6. Grant the activities of the regional associations

Grant the excellent operation plans of the regional associations so as to activate the regional activities.

7. Short-term overseas training

Sent the following two people to the United States for eight days to investigate the use of the planning and review of the library services in the US.