Which IT Group Should Take on the Work?
Association of College and Research Libraries President Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe listed off common IT functions performed in a typical institutional library. CT asked Chico State CIO Bill Post which of these functions could be moved to a central IT organization and which ones should probably stay with library IT. As the table below demonstrates, Post believes the functions should follow the skills.
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IT Function
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Central IT
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Library IT
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Notes
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Administer and manage workstations and networks
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X
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Act as liaison between library staff and campus IT people
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X
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Perform system admin, configuration, and maintenance for large research databases, local and online
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X
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X
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Depends on staff skills
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Manage access to library resources through proxy servers for remote access
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X
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X
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Depends on staff skills
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Participate in digitization projects, such as Google Book Project
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X
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Library leadership, but may depend on staff skills
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Develop systems for electronic deposit of theses and dissertations
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X
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Library leadership, but may depend on staff skills
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Create and support the institutional repository for faculty publications and other works
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X
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Library leadership, but may depend on staff skills
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Support library business transaction systems for book and subscriptions purchasing and e-commerce for receiving payments
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X
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Library leadership, but may depend on staff skills
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Integrate library systems with university apps for accessing current enrollment and employment data and managing HR
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X
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X
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Depends on staff skills
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