The Campaign For Penn's Libraries
INFORMATION
PEOPLE
INNOVATION
CAPITAL PROJECTS
GOALS
GOALS and CONTEXT
PEOPLE
Winning the Competition for Talent
Salaries make up 48% of the Libraries' operating budget, adjusting for allocated cost.

Strategic initiatives require new staff competencies. 

Penn is falling behind peers in compensation rates.

Our ability to recruit high quality IT and subject expertise is strategically important but hampered  by our budget.


Serials Expenditure Actual Dollars
Inflation Adjusted Serials Expenditure
Annual Serials Expenditure [includes Biddle Law]
$9,500,000
INFORMATION
$11,000,000
Relative Information Expenditure
Yale > 70% from endowment
Columbia ca. 11% from endowment
Catch Princeton?
Penn 11% from endowment
Improving Information Provision
Holding Ground Against Inflation
$9.5 Million
$11 Million
$23 Million
$3.5 Million
$19,000,000 Raised
CONTEXT 
The Battle for Resources
Spending for libraries: The trend in ARL
$47,000,000 Target
“WHO’S going to be the first to jump in here?” John Pollack asks, eliciting the reaction he usually gets when inviting freshmen to touch a 500-year-old book — “Are we allowed to, really?”
"Handle This Book", NYT, Nov.2,2008, Education Life section, pg. 30 
CAPITAL PROJECTS
The Library as place
$23,000,000
Creating New Learning Environments
PARTNERS
NEW BIOMEDICAL LIBRARY  
UPDATED SEAS LIBRARY
“The library is a much more exciting place than it used to be." 
"I’ve teamed up {with librarians} in almost a co-teaching  model…and it’s really engaged the students...my students are winning more than their share of Rhodes, Fulbrights, Marshalls, it’s paid those kinds of dividends, by teaming up with the librarians."
INNOVATION
$3,500,000
   Expanding Service, 
       Improving Quality 
The number of serial volumes added has decreased 12% a year since 2002.

The number of Blackboard course sites has increased 21% a year since 2002.

70% of IT effort is spent on managing the work-arounds in systems;  less than 20% is devoted to new development, according to Gartner Inc. 

In 2008 Google Books reached the 7 million mark and reaches a settlement with publishers over rights
Winds of Change
Competitive Landscape
Innovation and interdependency = opportunity
www.library.upenn.edu/portal
Joe Zucca | Cathy Von Elm 
Office of Communication and Planning
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
215-573-4643
zucca@pobox.upenn.edu
cvonelm@pobox.upenn.edu
SAS FACULTY MEMBER
The Commons Model
Amanda Goldstein
Library Development
215-898-4654
amg2@penn.edu
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COLLECTIONS
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Creating New Learning Environments
WEIGLE INFORMATION COMMONS
Atwood Veterinary Library
Creating New Learning Environments