List of Current Strategic Initiatives
The Open Educational Resource team seeks to sustain the Alternative Grants Program program, which has become an important pillar of FSU’s textbook affordability initiative since 2017 and supports instructors in their efforts to replace commercial…
Strategic Initiative:
Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Invest in People
Building a community of STEM Data Scholars at FSU will increase data literacy by allowing the Libraries to expand the reach and impact of research data services across the STEM community. This will be achieved through the creation of a STEM data…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Promote Critical Thinking
This initiative builds upon the Course Adopted eResources Program through development of an eTextbook portal to serve as the center of communication, promotion, and course-adopted library-licensed eResource access for instructors and students.…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community
This initiative will provide web hosting for digital projects through an educational technology company called Reclaim Hosting. This service would be available to any FSU faculty members, graduate students, or undergraduate Honors students who wants…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Invest in People
The Diverse Voices in FSU STEM project seeks to call attention to the challenges faced by diverse and underrepresented groups in STEM as they progress through their academic career. This program aims to engage the entire FSU community in…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Promote Critical Thinking
Led by the Teaching, Learning & Engagement Instruction & Reference Unit, the Reference & Instruction Librarian and Library Instruction Specialist will use Articulate 360, a suite of e-learning authoring applications, to create online…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Invest in People, Promote Critical Thinking
Florida State Open Publishing (FSOP) places FSU Libraries’ support for open access publishing and digital project development under one initiative. FSOP provides publishing services for journals, monographs, open educational resources, and digital…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community
The FSU Digital Repository is shifting from being hosted under FLVC's architecture to one that is maintained, in-house, by FSU Libraries. The migration involves a complex, multi-layered process that includes: building and sustaining this…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community
The FSU Digital Repository is shifting from being hosted under FLVC's architecture to one that is maintained, in-house, by FSU Libraries. The migration involves a complex, multi-layered process that includes: building and sustaining this…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community
Due to a significant Drupal software upgrade requirement, the FSU Libraries website needs to be migrated to a new infrastructure. This upgrade provides an opportunity to refresh the website to improve user experience and advance our interface to…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community
Create a preservation system for born digital and digitized materials to meet the needs of the FSU Libraries Digital Preservation Framework in AWS using Archivematica (AM), an open source software. Enable AM to work with the FSU Digital Repository…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Promote Critical Thinking
The development and implementation of GIS and spatial data services within the library are designed to enhance data information literacy and critical thinking skills throughout the FSU community but with a focus on STEM scholars. This will be done…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Promote Critical Thinking
Open Scholars Project (OSP) is an informal forum for FSU researchers and scholars to learn about and share their experiences with open publishing, open source code and open data across subject areas. The OSP aims to create a group that is action-…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Invest in People
The digital project incubator will provide targeted support to a limited number of faculty and student projects in digital humanities and digital scholarship. This incubator program will allow the Digital Humanities Librarian and Digital Scholarship…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Invest in People
As research data instruction has become a priority for the library there is a need for a technical infrastructure to support these efforts. This proposal is to develop a pilot project to test the feasibility of a virtual desktop infrastructure based…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community