From: "Swisher, Bob" <bswisher@ou.edu>
To: "'it-fyi@listserv.ou.edu'" <it-fyi@lists.ou.edu>
Subject: it-fyi: Berkeley Identifies IT Challenges (Berkeley Computing & C
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 09:54:48 -0500
Berkeley Identifies Campus IT Challenges in its document, "Planning for
Information Systems and Technology at UC Berkeley, 1999-2003."
(http://ist.berkeley.edu:5555/Vision98/)
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The Information Systems and Technology unit at UC Berkeley has
identified 5 information technology challenges facing its campus:
Challenge 1: Campus budgets are essentially fixed, but demands for
technology are exploding. All campus departments need significantly more
support than they now have. In order to attract and retain the best
researchers, teachers, students, and administrative staff, the
University must offer a modern computing environment. Both the campus
and the UC system need strategies to invest in new technologies either
by reallocating existing resources or by developing additional
resources.
Challenge 2: Faculty, students, and staff are increasingly integrating
educational technology resources into all aspects of teaching and
learning. However, campus responsibilities for educational technology
and academic computing are unclear; existing services are not well
coordinated and are often difficult to locate and access; and resources
are unevenly distributed among disciplines. Working closely with the UC
Berkeley Library, the Office of Media Services, and other departments,
IST will take a leading role in meeting this challenge.
Challenge 3: The Berkeley campus, the UC system, and all of higher
education face the enormous challenge of how to integrate the classic
paper- and artifact-based systems of libraries and museums with emerging
electronic systems for authoring, ownership, publication, storage,
delivery, and retrieval. The UC Berkeley Library, the Computer Science
Department, the School of Information Management and Systems, several
Berkeley museums, and the (UC) California Digital Library all have
projects underway to explore the new world of electronic scholarly
information resources.
Challenge 4: Most campus departments want improved systems for managing
their operations, but campus responsibilities for developing and
maintaining new systems are not clear. As a result there are often gaps
or overlaps in development and services. The growing complexity of many
of these systems makes the cost of campuswide implementations very
large.
Challenge 5: The University has a significant problem in retaining and
recruiting the skilled set of technical employees needed to reach
Berkeley's goals in the information technology area.
--from "Planning for Information Systems and Technology at UC
Berkeley, 1999-2003."