Providing Leadership, Coordination and Community Building through the DLESE Project Office

DLESE企业在提供关键基础设施以支持地球科学社区的许多努力，以促进关于地球系统的教学和学习方面具有很大的前景。但是dleses的规模、复杂性和成功正在挑战核心服务和合作伙伴组织实现这一承诺的治理结构和有效性。这限制了dese发挥其全部潜力。DLESE需要一个有奉献精神的领导者，能够保持社区的参与，在思想和行动上有纪律，并合乎逻辑地朝着图书馆的使命和目标前进。通过这个过程，dese可以从一个非常好的组织变成一个伟大的组织。PI将建立一个dese项目办公室（DPO），领导社区围绕dese数字馆藏的增长进行讨论，协调将支持创建示范资源及其用于加强地球科学教育的服务的开发，并领导核心服务小组的社区建设活动。未来两年，lesese将有很多机会重新评估其目前的活动并规划未来。特别是，DLESE将根据质量计划中的建议对图书馆进行重大改进；接受美国国家科学基金会的建议审查；修订2001年策略计划；并确定2006年以后dleses企业的延续战略。这些活动中的每一项都需要付出巨大的努力，并承诺继续专注于dese的目标。每一个都将对dese的发展和未来产生持久的影响。作为执行主任，PI将与指导委员会和管理理事会合作，指导lesese开展这些活动。为了改进DLESE的计划和操作，PI将使用一系列管理工具，并将实施一个正式的计划管理系统，该系统强调目标设定、优先排序、反映项目综合性质的调度、资源分配和计划评估。PI将推动新的通信和内容生成工具的开发，以鼓励社区驱动的图书馆创新和个人和特殊兴趣团体对DLESE企业的定制，与核心服务部门合作，将DLESE定位为所有主要地理网络基础设施项目的教育合作伙伴，并与NSF地球科学理事会支持的所有主要设施和中心建立正式的合作关系。

The DLESE enterprise holds great promise for providing critical infrastructure to support the geoscience community's many efforts to advance teaching and learning about the Earth system. But DLESE's size, complexity, and success are challenging the governing structure and the effectiveness of the Core Services and partner organizations to fulfill this promise. This is limiting DLESE from reaching its full potential. DLESE needs a dedicated leader that can keep the community engaged, disciplined in thought and actions, and progressing logically toward the library's mission and goals. Through this process, DLESE can move from being a very good organization to being a great one. The PI will establish a DLESE Project Office (DPO) to lead community discussions surrounding the growth of the DLESE digital collection, coordinate the development of the services that will support the creation of exemplary resources and their use in enhancing geoscience education, and lead the community-building activities of the Core Service groups. The next two years hold many opportunities for DLESE to reevaluate its current activities and plan for the future. In particular, DLESE will implement significant enhancements to the library based on recommendations in the Quality Plan; undergo a proposed review by NSF; update the 2001 Strategic Plan; and identify strategies for continuation of the DLESE enterprise beyond 2006. Each of these activities will require significant effort and a commitment to stay focused on DLESE's goals. Each will have a lasting impact on the development and future of DLESE. As Executive Director, the PI will work with the Steering Committee and Management Council to guide DLESE through these activities. To improve the planning and operations of DLESE, the PI will use an array of management tools and will implement a formal program management system that emphasizes goal setting, prioritization, scheduling that reflects the integrated nature of the project, apportionment of resources, and program evaluation. The PI will push for development of new communication and content generation tools to encourage community-driven innovations to the library and customization of the DLESE enterprise by individuals and special interest groups, work with the Core Services to position DLESE as the educational partner for all major geo-cyberinfrastructure projects, and develop formal partnerships with all major facilities and centers supported by NSF's Directorate for Geosciences.