3. What efforts have there been to find these funds within the requesting unit or your VP’s division? Include documentation to that effect. The Provost this past year has provided funding for a strategic initiative that has some funds attached to help with the conversion of some of the periodicals in order to permit the development of the New Commons within the Library. The strategic initiative request and the Provost’s memo awarding those funds are attached. Also, the same document indicates the amount of funding that the Library itself has committed to this transformation. And the accompanying budget justification indicates that we have committed 148 Revenues to this project as well. However, to truly accomplish the modernization of the library substantive additional funding will be needed. 4. What funds from within the requesting unit are being allocated towards this effort? As part of the proposed budget for FY 2019, some of our student fee and other 148 revenues are directed to this effort. Again, the requested additional dollars represent funds needed over and above anticipated allocations and fee revenue to accomplish the move from hard bound back issues of periodicals and government documents to electronic back files. 5. Does the requesting unit have external revenue* or internal reimbursement streams? YES If so: a) Where does it come from? The 148 funds are derived from fines that are charged for overdue books, income from the Library’s coffee shop, Jimmy B’s, and the Student Library Fee. Combined these funds generate about $450,000. b) What efforts have been made to increase the requesting unit’s revenue generation? Beyond those described above, none. As a service unit to the University and the community, additional revenue sources that charge people for services that should be available to the University are inappropriate. For example, it would be possible for the Library to begin to charge other units for the use of Rooms 152 and 288 and other spaces. However, this flies in the face of the ethos of a library. c) How much of the unit’s external revenue or internal reimbursement will be devoted towards this effort? We were able to appropriate about $18,000 from these revenues to the conversion to back files. The majority of our 148 revenues were needed to maintain the current level of operation. *External revenue is generated from products/sales to persons/entities external to the Central community. 6. Did any of the units within the requestor’s division have carry-forward last year? What efforts have been made to reallocate these funds towards this effort? A small amount which was set aside to enhance operations within the Library and is now being used to address collection protection and preservation issues that require the movement of two subunits in order to protect the Archives. Therefore, none of these funds are available to offset this request.
7. How will this allocation affect CWU faculty, staff and students? How will it impact recruitment and retention?
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