| Goals |
Initiatives |
Metrics |
| Foster scholarship, discovery and innovation |
- Make library collections more accessible.
- Establish the Research Data Services program, and expand its outreach, acquisitions, scholarly support and data curation activities.
- Extend the reach and audience for international and area studies expertise and collections.
|
Researcher use of Research Data Services resources |
| Number of initial circulations (excluding reserves) |
| Titles held (all formats) |
| Electronic books available |
| Number of successful full text article requests |
| Percent of collection budget spent on electronic resources |
| Provide transformative learning experiences |
- Increase integration of subject specialist librarians into academic departments and programs across campus in order to promote use of information, instructional, and scholarly support services by students, staff, and faculty.
- Identify strategies for ascertaining emerging research and teaching emphases on the Urbana campus and use this information to establish collection development objectives.
- Adopt best practices from the fields of evidence-based librarianship and user experience in the design and development of library services.
- Adapt library spaces to better support transformative learning experiences.
- Assure accessiblity of library resources, including faculty and staff expertise, in location-independent ways.
|
Number of total participants in group presentations |
| Number of reference transactions |
| On-site visits to the libraries |
| Reserve course readings (electronic and print) |
| Number of student research journals published by Library |
| Reservations of student collaborative spaces |
| Make a significant and visible societal impact |
- Develop national and international partnerships that increase public access to library programs and resources.
- Expand efforts to digitize Library materials in the public domain and provide open access to them.
- Accelerate the creation of open educational and research resources.
|
Total number of filled ILL requests provided to other libraries |
| Count of books in Google Books and HathiTrust |
| IDEALS downloads |
| Curated exhibits on- or off-campus, incl. in libraries and partnerships with Krannert |
| Number of "last copy" items added to print repository from Illinois libraries |
| Steward current resources and generate additional resources |
- Establish a robust and sustainable program supporting access, dissemination, preservation, and curation of digital content created, managed, or acquired by the Library.
- Invest additional resources in Library collections serving areas of identified campus and Library strategic interest.
- Model best practices in collection management through application of guidelines for long-term storage of print materials informed by participation in local, state, regional, and national programs.
- Promote collaborative efforts toward accomplishing local, regional, and national goals for digital preservation programs.
- Increase data-driven, evidence-based decision making throughout the Library to assure the wisest and most efficient use of resources.
|
ARL Investment Index rank |
| No. of print materials preserved |
| No. of media materials preserved |
