Goal 1: Support student success
Objectives + Action Items
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: Reimagine student work and internship opportunities, including student participation in library advisory groups.
Action: Seek opportunity to include library student employment as experiential learning credit in the new University Studies Program.
Action: Provide experiential learning opportunities for students in partnership with University Studies and Student Affairs.
Goal 2: Bolster access to library resources
Objectives + Action Items
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.
Goal 3: Invest in research excellence
Objectives + Action Items
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.
Goal 4: Foster a supportive community
Objectives + Action Items
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.
Goal 5: Enhance Libraries funding and partnerships
Objectives + Action Items
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.
Forward for Wyoming 2023+
Honoring Our Heritage & Creating Our Future
Goal 1: Enhance student success
Goal 2: Pursue institutional excellence
Goal 3: Provide a supportive community
Goal 4: Engage with and serve the state of Wyoming
Goal 5: Cultivate financial stability/diversification
