University of Wyoming Libraries Strategic Plan 2024-2029

Action: Enhance support of information and digital literacies in University Studies courses.

Action: Integrate inclusive pedagogy into library instruction practices.

Action: Continue to fund Alt-Textbook Grant program.

Action: Partner with UW Store to support instructors adopting OER and library materials as required course materials.

Action: Implement Leganto for course reserves.

Action: Continue to evaluate and upgrade study space in Coe Library.

Action: Evaluate branch libraries and assess how to better serve NW campus.

Action: Create a graduate student study space.

Action: Explore off-site storage opportunities to free library space for new student uses.

Action: Evaluate Hebard Collection holdings to identify materials of high research interest suitable for digitization and sharing in open-access digital repository.

Action: Identify rare Special Collections holdings for digitization and contribution to HathiTrust or another cooperative digital archive.

Action: Market primary source collections to appropriate UW classes and researchers.

Action: Task Discovery Enhancement Committee with ongoing optimization of library discovery services and functionality, while improving user experience and accessibility to library resources.

Action: Explore adding RFID tags to library materials to improve self-checkout and the inventory/findability of physical library materials.

Action: Expand the marketing and promotion of library resources to faculty, staff, and students.

Action: Explore the impact of e-preferred purchasing and vendor platforms on user experience.

Action: Review and update collection approval plans to meet the resource needs of current in-person and distance degree programs.  

Action: Implement the digital Federal Depository Library Program.

Action: Fully implement new data, institutional, and digital repositories.

Action: Implement open book publishing platform and continue to host open journal system.

Action: Add new kinds of expertise in digital scholarship to the Libraries workforce.

Action: Provide workshops and other educational outreach through the Digital Scholarship Center.

Action: Expand read-and-publish, transformative, and article processing fee discount agreements with publishers where feasible.

Action: Revisit Employee Support Committee charge.

Action: Audit employee workspaces and make more effective use of available space.

Action: Fund conferences and trainings, including supervisor training.

Action: Continue to build staff career ladders.

Action: Seek opportunities for cross-divisional training to find efficiencies with work and positions.

Action: Task Communication Leadership Team to make recommendations for improving intranet, weekly updates, and Libraries-wide meetings.

Action: Improve employee onboarding processes and documentation.

Action: Implement a Libraries employee handbook.

Action: Task AI Leadership Team to explore how to use AI for everyday work and free employees to work on higher-level projects.

Action: Seek permissions for unrestricted access to in-copyright Wyoming Newspaper Project holdings.

Action: Continue to explore opportunities to expand statewide or community college access to licensed resources.

Action: Prepare for a university-wide capital campaign and identify top library needs.

Action: Connect donors to wish list items identified in the grassroots strategic planning process.

Action: Grow donor base of recent graduates through targeted outreach to former student employees and through Giving Day.

Action: Assess shared goals and opportunities with current building partners including LeaRN, ECTL, Writing Center, STEP, and UW IT.

Action: Calculate return on investment for memberships in consortia and other buying/publishing groups.