Current Cites, is one of the most consistently high-quality email newsletters SCUP scans for you. First published in 1990, it is nearly as old as SCUP Email News. 

A team of librarians scans the literature for information technology resources and studies that inform academic library leaders. They select and annotate the best 8-12 each month, and send those annotations as an email newsletter. The same content is available on the Current Cites website and as an RSS feed.

The January 2011 issue covers topics that include: 

• How a library system changes its networking and reduced networking costs (but probably increased management costs);
• A study on how library patrons search for articles which has implications for how many article databases libraries need to subscribe to;
• The creation of regional repositories of legacy print collections;
• How students and scholars from different disciplines use digitized and virtual materials differently in their work; 
• A Cornell University internal study about how its print collections are utilized or circulated (or not);
• And more.

Don't miss out on joining nearly 1,500 of your colleagues and peers at higher education's premier planning event of 2010, SCUP–45. The Society for College and University Planning's 45th annual, international conference and idea marketplace is July 10–14 in Minneapolis!

Here's your SCUP Link to the AAMC's Group on Institutional Research's "Planners Toolkit" (PDF)

The "Group on Institutional Research (GIP) is a professional subgroup of planners working on member campuses of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC). It provides networking, professional development, and useful resources, many of which are relevant and useful outside of medical colleges.

This resource is a good guide to planning, of various sorts, on complex campuses of all sorts, although the language focuses on medical schools. SCUPers would do well to download this and have it available as a resource, just in case the AAMC's GIP puts it behind password protection in the future. (Please don't!)

Introduction to the Planners’ Toolkit

 

The role of the planner in academic medicine is rich and varied. Projects may encompass strategic, programmatic, space, capital, and operational planning (to name a few), and can span the clinical, research, academic, and community missions of our institutions. Depending on the size, scope, and organization of the institution, roles may be highly specialized or very broad.

 

With this in mind, the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Institutional Planning has developed this Planners’ Toolkit, which is intended to provide an overview of planning in academic medicine. Whether you are new to a planning role, a seasoned veteran with new roles and responsibilities, or an occasional participant, it is our hope that the toolkit can be used as an introduction to the field, as well as to some of the key issues and activities it encompasses. It includes a series of short introductory articles by some of our most experienced members on:

 

• Planning in Academic Medicine

• Organizational Structures and Planning

• Strategic Planning in Academic Medicine

• Master Planning

• Space Planning: Clinical, Research, Education

• Space Management/General Facilities Information

• Data and Benchmarking (forthcoming)

• Disaster Planning and Preparedness (forthcoming)

• Why We Love Working in Academic Medicine

• Appendix A – About the Group on Institutional Planning (GIP) and the AAMC

• Appendix B – Master Planning

 

We hope the toolkit will become a living document that will continue to expand as our members contribute new topics from their various areas of expertise. We welcome your comments and thoughts on how we can continue to make this a useful resource. The toolkit will be distributed to current GIP members, and to all newcomers to the Group. It will also be accessible on the GIP website.