Goals:

1. Identify and select appropriate materials.
   • Write policies and procedures.
   • Draft contributor guidelines and contracts regarding copyright and legal issues.
   • Define who contributes, what is contributed.
   • Solicit material needing digitization from faculty and librarians.
   • Survey faculty and librarians for what already exists digitally.
   • Prioritize materials for inclusion in the CCDL.
   • Maintain quality control of scans and metadata.
2. Provide a sustainable, scalable and reliable technological infrastructure.
   • Purchase hardware and software for the CCDL infrastructure.
   • Purchase additional disk storage to accommodate growth.
   • Maintain system to minimize downtime.
   • Upgrade hardware and software as needed.
3. Provide user-friendly access levels to content.
   • Design interface that is intuitive, easy to use and easy to find.
   • Provide online support.
   • Facilitate integration with other campus' e-learning tools.
4. Develop an institutional repository in partnership with Claremont Colleges faculty.
   • Work with faculty to increase the dissemination of their research and scholarship in a cost-efficient manner.
   • Train faculty to use the CCDL software effectively.
   • Actively solicit contributions from faculty.
5. Create and provide CCDL services to users.
   • Implement digitization services.
   • Provide reference and instruction in many forms.
   • Develop outreach and marketing strategies.
6. Identify external sources and apply for funding of digital projects.
   • Cultivate relationships with The Colleges' development offices and CUC Advancement Office.
   • Identify foundations that fund digital library projects.
   • Identify opportunities for collaboration with other institutions.
7. Develop a preservation program that ensures one of the following four levels of commitment to preserving materials disseminated in the CCDL:
   1. Archived - The material is hosted here, and The Library intends to keep the intellectual content of the material available on a permanent basis.
   2. Served - The material resides here, but The Library has not (yet) made the level of commitment to keeping it available that it has for "archived" materials.
   3. Mirrored - A copy of material residing elsewhere is hosted here, and The Library makes no commitment to archiving. Also, an institution other than The Library has primary responsibility for the content and its maintenance.
   4. Linked - The material is hosted elsewhere and The Library points to it at that location. Therefore the Library has no control over the information.
   • Assign a level of preservation commitment to each collection.
   • Record technical metadata that will aide in the four levels of preservation commitment.
   • Perform daily backup on CCDL databases.
   • Keep a digital copy of archived materials off-site.
   • Review and update preservation procedure.
8. Assess and evaluate the use of, effectiveness of, and satisfaction with the CCDL interface, collections and services.
   • Obtain statistics and create metrics to measure use.
   • Gather feedback from users and obtain anecdotal testimony about students' work to measure effectiveness.
   • Survey users to measure satisfaction.