Brainstorm of Potential Ideas by the Strategic Planning Team 

• Floating Book Project
• CIC collaboration activities
• Google book project information
• HathiTrust information
• Activities of the Digitization and Preservation department
• Trend analysis of electronic information resources over time
• Activities of the Facilities department
• Jointly/split funded faculty, staff and graduate assistant positions
• Sustainability training and orientation sessions for library employees
• Sustainability instruction/outreach sessions
• Sustainable purchasing activities
• Activities of the green team
• Curriculum – sustainability education support
• Preservation of information and knowledge
• Influence on publishing business models
• Open access movement – availability of knowledge and research
• Sustainability collection of materials and using methodology that modeled sustainability practices (how collected, what it looks like, etc) – standards for sustainable collections (similar to LEED for green building)
• Total Quality Management and sustainability are about “making stuff better” – gather information on prior efforts; opportunity to leverage existing or previous initiatives
• Sustainable resources for disciplinary research in sustainability

2008 – 2013 Strategic Plan

• To support the needs of Penn State, we cannot afford simply to respond to change; we must create it within our organization and enable it within Penn State so that we can continue to grow as a student-centered research university. The priorities outlined in this plan will demand that the Libraries take risks and position itself to adapt quickly to new program needs. The employees of the Libraries are our most important resource, and we will invest in them through continued training and development programs.