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Strategic Plan 2024 – 2027

Advance emerging research

  • Create an organizational structure for research services that supports innovation, partnership, and community building
  • Create a programmatic, agile, user-focused research services portfolio and service roadmap that develops areas of excellence that supports the UW-Madison research environment and is recognized by campus
  • Increase the visibility of the Libraries as partners in emerging research through improved communication and storytelling
  • Define the Libraries approach to engaging in research and advocacy to complement and advance our services portfolio

Engage in educational innovation

  • Collect and analyze data to enhance holistic library support for teaching, learning, and research
  • Foster collaborative, sustainable partnerships that enable the Libraries to broaden our reach in service of teaching, learning, and research
  • Expand instruction program capacity by investing in collaborative partnerships and supportive technology
  • Develop content and competencies to support a dynamic approach to multimodal literacies instruction
  • Identify and enhance dynamic support for learners across audiences, platforms, and spaces

Broaden and deepen access to research resources

  • Increase campus access to datasets
  • Increase access to campus scholarship and collections
  • Improve accessibility of library collections
  • Assess and improve business processes related to access
  • Assess, improve, and recalibrate Libraries Discovery services

Revitalize spaces to enable research and learning

  • Create an organizational framework to articulate and implement the Libraries space vision and priorities, recognizing coordination among centralized and partner libraries
  • Advance long-term space plan to balance collections stewardship and evolving user needs
  • Position the Libraries as a campus leader in a modern research support environment through multiple technology-rich spaces and a corresponding comprehensive suite of services that enable us to further research excellence, complement academic programs and research education, foster vibrant research communities, and showcase innovative and interdisciplinary scholarship
  • Increase awareness and discoverability of the Libraries varied spaces and space services

Develop organizational strength

  • Continue to grow as a learning organization by clarifying, supporting, and sharing opportunities for professional development and advancement
  • Intentionally create space for collaboration and reducing silos across units and portfolios
  • Promote a diverse and inclusive environment for library staff and the campus community
  • Inventory staff competencies, analyze user feedback, and evaluate the organization’s service portfolio to enable decision-making about capacity
  • Enhance connections by ensuring communication tools and strategies reflect the structure and culture of the organization
  • Build organizational strength through structural change, empowerment, and shared values