About This Report

This annual report was published August 15, 2008 and was written by staff of Luther College Library and Information Services. It is the synthesis of many individual and departmental reports covering work completed during the 2007-08 academic year. The contents of these reports have been collected and mapped to the LIS Goals and Objectives for 2007-08. This is principle organizational structure for the report.

On each “goal” page, there are two forms of objectives, “Original” and “Emergent.” Original goals were set by LIS in summer 2007 while Emergent goals were added over the course of the year. Each objective includes a report on work completed and information on the next steps for that objective. Each “goal” page also includes information from regular operations of LIS that support that goal. In many (most) cases, the ongoing work of LIS is difficult to categorize by individual goals because they address many of our goals simultaneously. To address this, material is crosslisted across goals where appropriate.

Also at the end of the report are links to PDF copies of original reports submitted by each of the primary work teams within LIS. These reports formed the bulk of the original material in the primary report. However not all content appearing in the main section of the annual report appears in these supplementary appendices.