Strategic Plan 2006
Mission
Steely Library partners with its users in their quest for information—through access, through innovation, and through its people.
Vision
We seek to become the information resource of first choice for the NKU community and to be a noted center for excellence in our collections relating to the history and heritage of our region.
Key Action Areas
- Curriculum
- To enable our users to survive in a world that is increasingly information-based, we must help them to develop skills to effectively find, evaluate, and use appropriate information resources.
- Collections
- To be the primary resource for our users, we must provide and preserve access to the richest array of information resources possible.
- Public Engagement
- To support the University's commitment to civic engagement, the Library and its faculty must develop opportunities for creative projects to address community needs appropriate to our expertise.
- Measurement & Assessment
- To ensure that we are effectively and efficiently meeting user needs, we must develop a culture of assessment and adopt appropriate tools and techniques to measure our progress.
- Technology
- To ensure program excellence, we will deploy state-of-the-art technology as appropriate.
- Development
- With the realization that state support provides the essentials and that private support is necessary to support excellence, we must expand private giving and grant funding for Steely Library's efforts.
- Marketing
- To ensure full utilization of Library facilities, collections, and expertise, internal and external marketing and communications must be fully integrated into the planning and operations processes.
- Faculty Development
- In order to meet the challenges of 21st century librarianship, we must develop a faculty body that is both prepared and engaged in the profession and the University community.
- Staff Development
- In order to meet the challenges and needs of the 21st century library clientele, we must enhance staff skills.
Goals and Objectives
- Curriculum
- Goal: Expand the focus and reach of the Steely Library Instructional Program.
- Collections
- Goal: Provide and preserve access to the richest array of information resources possible.
- Public Engagement
- Goal: Develop public engagement efforts both as a Library and on the part of the Steely Library faculty by actively seeking opportunities, and by facilitating and encouraging efforts by individual employees.
- Measurement & Assessment
- Goal: Create a culture of assessment throughout the Library.
- Technology
- Goal: Deploy state-of-the-art technology as a support for program excellence
- Development
- Goal 1: Expand Steely Library's "margin for excellence" by increasing the level of private giving and increasing the level of grant-funded support.
- Marketing
- Goal 1: Build a marketing orientation within the Library, leading to better communication of library services, creating heightened perceptions of value among the University's internal and external constituencies.
- Goal 2: Build an internal marketing orientation within the Library, leading to better communication of library services, events, and projects between Library employees.
- Goal 3: Work to make Steely Library an example of excellence in terms of "Library as Place."
- Faculty Development
- Goal : Develop a faculty body that is well prepared to meet the challenges of 21st century librarianship and is engaged in the profession and the community.
- Staff Development
- Goal 1: Enhance staff skills to better meet the needs of a 21st century library.
- Goal 2: Facilitate the full integration of new staff members into the Library workforce.
updated: Tuesday, 12-Dec-2006 14:01:10 EST