美国图书馆战略计划2023-2028

第一支柱:学生的机会和成功

Partner with the USA community to provide appropriate, welcoming spaces, programs, and services that help students develop skills to be successful in their academic endeavors, and as researchers, scholars, informed citizens, and life-long learners.

1. Consistent with accreditation requirements, maintain a qualified library faculty and staff to provide the information resources, instruction, and research support necessary 推进大学的教育目标和计划.

2. Provide and invest in safe, inclusive, innovative, and well-equipped learning spaces 支持创造力、创新和学业成功.

3. Generate programming and collaborations with partners vested in enriching student 学习与归属.

4. Grow the 库’ contributions to key USA instructional priorities, including increasing retention and graduation rates, reducing equity gaps within student success metrics, and enhancing student verbal and written competencies necessary for a qualified future 劳动力.

支柱二:研究生教育

Develop collections, services, and spaces that facilitate graduate education and research and showcase the impact of USA’s graduate students on scholarship and service.

1. Develop comprehensive collections that foster research in existing graduate programs 并允许新项目的发展.

2. Grow services tailored to the research 需要 of USA’s graduate students.

3. Provide designated spaces for graduate students in the USA 库 that foster multidisciplinary research collaborations and allow for specialized programs and events.

支柱三:研究、发现、创造性作品

Participate in USA’s internationally recognized research and scholarship endeavors 这将改善我们的社区和生活质量.

1. Build and maintain capacity to actively engage in data management and digital data 在研究生命周期的所有阶段的策展.

2. Establish the USA 库 as a knowledge discovery hub by hosting research- focused events, programs, and speakers in partnership with the campus and 美国健康 research 企业.

3. Develop and maintain creative spaces in the libraries to incorporate new technologies 用于研究和知识开发.

4. Develop library expertise in grant writing, procuring and managing external funding, 在市场营销和推广方面也是如此.

5. Invest in and maintain research level collections, and archival and scholarship repositories 支持跨学科和基于问题的研究.

支柱四:大学社区参与

Foster mutually beneficial relationships and partnerships across the Gulf Coast region.

1. Engage with community partners through special collections, accessible programming, 促进教师和学生的研究.

2. Expand the holdings and use of archival resources that reflect and support our diverse 地方和区域社区.

3. Build relationships that facilitate teaching and learning, and foster opportunities 通过公民参与开展基于社区的参与性研究.

支柱五:卓越的医疗保健

Support excellence in healthcare to advance and improve patient care, community health 幸福和科学研究.

1. Promote evidence based practice into patient care and clinical research.

2. Facilitate and expand connections to educate health professionals about library resources 为病人提供优质的临床护理.

3. Advance the dissemination of consumer health resources within the 美国健康 System 在社区内促进健康和健康素养.

4. Expand services and programs to meet the expectations of excellence in healthcare 美国健康协会的病人和家属.

支柱六:员工经验

Create a work environment that retains and attracts highly competent faculty 和工作人员 并为他们的成功提供了途径.

1. Improve communication and collaboration across libraries and departments.

2. Provide competitive and equitable salaries to attract and retain excellent faculty 和工作人员.

3. Invest in developing faculty 和工作人员 to provide new skills to address changing university 需要.

4. 创造一种包容的文化，使员工能够脱颖而出.

支柱七:管理

Engage in responsible planning and resource management to ensure excellent service 感谢我们的赞助人.

1. Maintain strong relationships with the USA Development Office and USA Foundation to 最大限度地为美国图书馆提供资金.

2. Engage in continual stewardship and assessment of collections, services, and programs.

3. Collaboratively develop processes to seek appropriate external funding opportunities.

美国图书馆战略计划指导委员会

• 蕾切尔·芬斯克，生物医学图书馆主席

• Amia Baker, MCOB图书馆

• 黛博拉·古特，麦考尔图书馆

• Gail Kouame，生物医学图书馆

• 丽莎·莱因霍斯，美国图书馆馆藏

• Dr. Pamela Moore，大学图书馆委员会主席

• 贝丝·谢泼德，马克思图书馆参考资料 & 指令

• 丽贝卡·杨，马克思图书馆馆际互借

获大学图书馆行政总监批准
2023年8月