Implementation Plan for Goal 1.

Creating the Center for Academic Life

The Library will become a trans-institutional “Center for Academic Life”.

Strategy

Responsibility

Time Frame

Tasks

Committee on the Center for Academic Life

Strategy and Planning Council

Complete by September 2005-09-09

Create a committee on the Center of Academic Life drawn from key administrators of academic services on campus, ie. The Center for Teaching, The Learning Center, The Writing Center, the University Press.

The purpose of this group will be to oversee the development of a virtual organization whose mission will be to provide seamless academic support service to students and faculty at Vanderbilt.

Create a Learning Commons

Committee on the Center for Academic Life

Summer 2006

Appoint a project team to design the Learning Center to be housed on the 6th level of the Central Library. Plans should include needed equipment, software, staffing, and programs.