Library Services Strategic Plan, 2020-2022
Goal #1: Provide access to library and information resources to support teaching, learning, and research
- Emphasize the acquisition of electronic resources to support students at all locations, both on and off campus. Supports APSU Goal #2: Student Success
- When possible, focus on acquiring library resources to support new and revised academic programs. Supports APSU Goals #1: Enrollment Growth, and #2: Student Success
- Utilize usage and cost data to make decisions regarding the continuation of subscriptions to serials and e-resources. Supports APSU Goal #3: Sustainability
- Explore the feasibility and affordability of a discovery service. Supports APSU Goal #2: Student Success
- Participate in efforts to provide technological resources to students enrolled in online courses. Supports APSU Goal #2: Student Success
- Provide support and education for open access resources (course reserves, e-books, bibliographic management tools, etc.). Supports APSU Goal #3: Sustainability
Goal #2: Enhance information literacy instruction
- Continue to develop instructional videos and tutorials to support an increasing number of hybrid and online course delivery methods. Supports APSU Goal #2: Student Success
- Continue to develop a structured method of information literacy instruction using curriculum mapping and scaffolding techniques. Supports APSU Goal #2: Student Success
- Expand avenues for providing research assistance services. Supports APSU Goal #2: Student Success
- Review layout of Research Guides to allow for more flexibility of content across disciplines while maintaining a consistent user experience. Supports APSU Goal #2: Student Success
- Provide users with strategic frameworks to effectively evaluate information and navigate digital information resources. Supports APSU Goal #2: Student Success
Goal #3: Increase faculty, staff, and student productivity and collaboration
- Add collections and promote the use of the institutional repository, ASPIRE. Supports APSU Goals #2: Student Success and #3: Sustainability
- Develop records management protocol and perform retention review of existing records. Supports APSU Goal #3: Sustainability
- Establish a workflow for in-house authority control for the library catalog, rather than paying for a third party authority control. Supports APSU Goal #3: Sustainability
- Create a collection and establish working relationships using the Student Activism Now Documented (STAND) toolkit. Supports APSU Goal #4: Diversity
Goal #4: Seek opportunities to improve library facilities
- Collaborate with representatives from Capital Planning, Design & Construction and others on a student success building funding proposal. Supports APSU Goals #1: Enrollment Growth, #2: Student Success, and #3: Sustainability
Goal #5: Offer programming contributing to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Write and publicize a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statement for Woodward Library. Supports APSU Goal #4: Diversity
- Seek opportunities to participate in, offer, and support DEI initiatives. Supports APSU Goal #4: Diversity
View the Library Services Strategic Plan, 2011-2015
View the Library Services Strategic Plan, 2016-2019