Strategic Plan: 2000-2005

Libraries Mission and Vision

We will know we are succeeding when...

...the library is a center of academic life.

...our physical spaces promote research, reflection, collaboration.

...our virtual space offers resources and services anywhere, anytime.

...all resources and services are easy to use.

...all users are information fluent.

...our investment in staff, information resources, and technology promotes academic success and life-long learning.

Libraries Goals

Goal 1: Build a collection of resources befitting a premier research university.

Sample Strategies:

1. Fully support the University's instructional and research needs for information resources.
2. Determine the effectiveness of the collections through appropriate assessment techniques. 
3. Improve collection maintenance of traditional and digital resources.
4. Improve collection development activities so that they reflect the future growth of academic programs.
5. Build upon the present strengths of Special Collections to further enhance its national reputation.

Sample Strategies:

1. Replace print resources with digital equivalents as they become available.
2. Migrate resources that are dependent on submerging technologies.
3. Provide access to our unique resources using digital technologies.
4. Participate in the development of a system of optimal user authentication and rights management.
   

Sample Strategies:

1. Provide structure and organization that facilitate effective information retrieval.
2. Reduce the time it takes to make information resources available to users.
3. Improve current facilities to meet the needs of both onsite and remote users and library staff.
4. Improve UTA Libraries Online so that it meets the growing demands for digital library services.
5. Move toward the provision of 24-7 access to information services.

Sample Strategies: 

1. Increase collaboration with faculty to support their research and improve student learning.
2. Seek increased partnering opportunities with faculty for curriculum enhancement.
3. Provide assistance to faculty as they incorporate technology into their courses.
4. Develop web pages for every discipline and related course.
5. Increase communication with academic departments to identify new courses and degrees being developed. 
6. Encourage more appropriate use of digital information through user education programs.
7. Enhance information literacy through formal and informal instructional programs and tutorials.

Sample Strategies:

1. Increase collaboration with other information service units on campus.
2. Improve marketing strategies to target the needs of specific user populations.
3. Increase the Libraries visibility in campus cultural and social activities.

Sample Strategies:

1. Investigate and support leading-edge technologies that may result in high-impact applications.
2. Develop the infrastructure to create and provide large-scale access to UTA's unique collections.
3. Implement an on-going program of technology assessment. 
4. Increase the speed with which new technologies are implemented.

Sample Strategies:

1. Increase the use of remote storage for physical collections to maximize the space in campus library facilities.
2. Reconfigure space in the Central Library to maximize space for users and to meet the current organizational requirements.
3. Transform the Science & Engineering Library into a predominantly digital library.
4. Develop an aggressive forward looking program statement that guides the development of a learner centered environment.
5. Plan and design a new library building or module.

Sample Strategies:

1. Identify and remove barriers to continuous learning.
2. Increase training opportunities to meet the identified needs of library staff.
3. Include general and specific competency statements in all job descriptions.

Sample Strategies:

1. Increase the ability of the organization to act entreprenurially.
2. Redesign processes to simplify work.
3. Institute a program of ongoing assessment to improve library services and resources.
4. Engage in user needs assessment through focus groups, surveys and interviews to improve library services.
5. Investigate leading-edge developments in service provision, whether in academe or beyond.