4. Goals and objectives, issues, and key strategic initiatives 2006-2008

Goal 6: Partnerships

Align with the university's defining themes of innovation, engagement, internationalisation and global development to support the wider Monash community. Improve services through co-operative arrangements with CAUL, CAVAL and the University of Melbourne/Monash protocol and build on these relationships for the benefit of all Australian libraries, including achieving greater buying power.

Partnerships are part of Monash Directions 2025 expectations, even if they are not primary Library objectives. The Library must work out the costs of access for various groups.

External partnerships, with other academic libraries in particular, add a wider library context to our planning, an outward focus.

Objectives

To support Monash students and staff in Monash affiliated hospitals and other teaching and research locations
To support overseas campuses and partnerships
To provide services as appropriate to Monash partner organisations and commercial operations on campus
To participate in a range of other collaborative endeavours to further Monash goals
To support alumni access to Monash resources
To support the university’s internationalisation activities on and off campus

Key issues

The Library needs to ensure that it is included in the early stages of university, academic, campus and commercial co-operative project planning, in order to avoid service and support difficulties. This is particularly true of overseas course and campus development, where the issue of quality of service delivery is paramount, and where the Library has a key role to play.

There is a need to clarify services and resources that can be provided to third party tenants, such as commercial enterprises on campus, schools and TAFEs and other entities that are included in university agreements. Licence agreements with vendors must reflect the university's span of involvement, and it must be clear what service levels are expected and able to be provided.

Strategic initiatives 2006-2008

6.1 Support optimum development of Monash libraries at Monash University Malaysia and Monash South Africa:

Provide advice on staffing and the operational environments of the new libraries for the Monash University Malaysia campus, including Monash University Malaysia Medical School and associated hospitals, and Monash South campus
Conduct training programs for international librarians

6.2 Ensure Library involvement in initial stages of campus urban plans:

Identify and strengthen key strategic alliances such as the Synchrotron, the education precincts at Gippsland and Peninsula, and the Sir John Monash Science School at Clayton

6.3 Review resource access for Library users including alumni, third party tenants on campus, schools, TAFEs, Monash-affiliated hospitals, Open Universities Australia students enrolled in Monash-taught units

6.4 Clearly estimate what service levels Monash University Library must meet

6.5 Ensure that all new initiatives are subjected to the university’s approved project planning methodologies (Thomsett)

6.6 Review existing fee-for-service agreements on a regular basis