FY2011 Business Plan

June 16 2011

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. Main activities of the committees

1. Committee on General Affairs
   • Main activities
     • Carry out planning of the organization, operation and publicity of the Association, and planning and deliberation of the JANUL Award.
   • New activity plans/Priority issues
     • Carry out planning of the organization, operation and publicity of the Association, and planning and deliberation of the JANUL Award.
2. Committee on Human Resources
   • Main activities
     • Carry out activities that are necessary for a systematic cultivation of the staffs whom the national university libraries need, and examinate the treatment of library staffs.
   • New activity plans/Priority issues
     • Carry out the Management Seminar, and Examine the future of this activity.
     • Implement the Overseas Training Project.
     • Examination about the dispatch of the research information.
     • Consider a proposal for the personnel policy of library staffs based on the result of a survey of library organization and personnel policy.
3. Committee on Scholarly Information
   • Main activities
     • Consider the issues of scholarly information media, systems and services which are still more increasing and diversifying in order to collect, supply and preserve scholarly information (except electronic journals) uninterruptedly and stably.
   • New activity plans/Priority issues
     • Examination of the academic information system under the electronic environment.
     • Use promotion of the academic information.
     • Preservation of the academic information.
4. Ad Hoc Committee on Reform of Scholarly Information Distribution
   • Main activities
     • Consider the issues, for example construction of a new model for the contract of scholarly and electronic journals, and reform of the scholarly information distribution in order to collect, supply and preserve scholarly information, such as scholarly and electronic journals, uninterruptedly and stably.
   • New activity plans/Priority issues
     • Cooperation with the JUSTICE:Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources.
     • Policy examination as JANUL about the maintenance of electronic intelligence resources.
     • Examination for the construction of a new academic information distribution system.

3. Hold a Management Seminar

1. Date
   9:00 to 12:00 on June 17, 2011, Friday
2. Venues
   Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima
3. Theme
   Investigate the strategic course of the university library in a change.

4. Hold a JANUL Symposium

1. Theme
   Electronic books and university library.
2. Target
   A manager and the nucleus staff engaged in university library management.
3. Date
   Autumn, 2011
4. Venues
   one place to Kinki District from Kanto District

5. Hold a symposium on Reforming Scholarly Information Distribution

Report and discuss about the present conditions of the administration system of JUSTICE after 2012 and publishing company negotiations.

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. Overseas training

Recruit overseas trainees based on the revised guideline and send the selected trainees to overseas.