The Technion Library System - 2015

Vision, Mission and Challenges

Technion Nobelists

Four Technion professors are Nobel Prize Winners (during the past 10 years)

Agenda

Mission & Vision

Description of the Technion Library System

New Challenges – New Concepts

Vision & Mission

The vision:

Leading Scientific-Technological Information Center

To Promote Creativity and Excellence in Research,

Teaching and Study within the Technion Community

and in Israel as a Whole.

To Lead in Israel the Provision of Content in the Fields

of Science & Engineering

Vision & Mission

The Mission:

Support Research and Teaching in the Technion

Providing Professional Information Services

to the Technion Community.

Enhance Learning & Research in a User Friendly

Cultural Center having quality coffee

Distributed Centralized Model

Civil Eng.

MechanicalEng.

Aerospace

Eng.

Electrical

Eng.

Computer

Science

PhysicsMathematics

Central

Library

Biomedical

Eng. Chemical

Eng.

Chemistry

& Biology

Medicine

Industrial Eng.

& Management

ArchitectureEducation inSci. & Tech

.Materials Eng.

Distributed Centralized Model

Our system consists of:

The Central Librarylocated at the heart of the campus

Fifteen Faculty Librarieslocated in each individual faculty building

Operating as a single unit!

Distributed Centralized Model

Central Library:

Professional and Technical Services

Cataloging

Subject classification

Acquisition

Reference and interlibrary loan

Distributed Centralized Model

Faculty libraries:

Extra-oriented to their local patrons

Providing tailored services (course readings, citation counting and more)

Diverse Users – Special Needs

Personalization

Diverse Users – Special Needs

Technion libraries are intensively used

Diverse Users – Special Needs

Library instructions

How to conduct an efficient and effective

Information Search

Diverse Users – Special Needs

Students’ Exam Period

New Library PortalMerging 15 campus libraries' websites

into 1 uniform information gateway

Mobile interface

for the library catalog

Modified version

of VuFind (open source software)

For Mobile

Our Collection

Almost 1 million volumes

About 15,000 E-journals

About 250,000 E-books

About 250 databases

E-journal archives

Overall re-arrangement of the shelving

Collection Managing

Largely

Limited access to the print collectionspublishers making more digital archives available

Advancedexpand the library's study areas

Collection Evaluation & Winnowing

Digital Archives (Books & Journals)

Digitizing Collections

Redesign the Library Spaces

Transformation to a

Massive physical reorganization of the stacksLow-use collections are moved to the closed stacks

Procedures and carefully detailed set of criteria

Journal & book E-archives enable to free-up floor space previously used for shelving these collections

Redefinition of Function

• Bookless library

• Library --- Learning Commons

The Technion Library staff is continually

successful to fulfill our vision and mission daily,

despite all challenges.

“The reality is libraries are having a bit

of an identity crisis”

For more information

VISIT OUR WEBSITE:

http://library.technion.ac.il/en

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Dalia Dolev, Library Director

ddalia@technion.ac.il

Thank youFor your attention!