VI. The Path to Progress

The strengths of our strategic planning reside in departmental-level work plans as well as in this Strategic Plan. Below are concise highlights of unit work plans by department. For more detailed snapshots of individual unit plans, see Appendix E. To obtain the current and complete versions of unit work plans, contact Don Frier at don.frier@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-4633.

Highlights include:

 

ADMINISTRATION

Provides oversight for OSULP’s strategic planning, resource and personnel management, fundraising, and directs overall operations

  • Build an infrastructure to support the creation, delivery and assessment of experiential learning opportunities in all OSULP units.  
  • Identify strategies and actions for advancing OSU’s strategic goals of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI).  

ASSESSMENT

Collaborates across OSULP to assess the quality of OSULP programs, services and collections

  • Develop, pilot and implement a library satisfaction survey.

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES DEPARTMENT

Maintains OSULP’s evolving, robust and flexible technological infrastructure and supports exploration, discovery and knowledge creation

  • Broaden the impact, heighten the user experience and improve the performance of Oregon Digital.
  • Implement OSULP's digital preservation plan to ensure the continuity of our unique online content.

GUIN LIBRARY

Provides library services and collections to support Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport

  • Explore creating new user spaces to facilitate collaborative and group work.
  • Create a more usable collection through expanded discoverability of local resources.

LIBRARY EXPERIENCE AND ACCESS DEPARTMENT

Addresses evolving user needs through access to proactive and flexible services and spaces

  • Conduct peer tech training workshops in the Learning Commons to address common problems (such as making graphs and charts) that students encounter when using Microsoft Office products.
  • Conduct discussions with key stakeholders about eliminating fines and offering alternatives (such as the food for fines campaign).

 

 

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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Advances knowledge of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest through the publication of significant trade and scholarly books

  • Continue to publish books by authors from diverse and underrepresented communities to promote equity and inclusion.
  • Implement press-wide database to make publishing operations more efficient and to improve departmental communication.

RESOURCE ACQUISITIONS AND SHARING DEPARTMENT

Provides user access to a broad range of information resources available 24/7 through perpetually changing options to purchase, lease and link to library material

  •  Determine the ability of OSULP to support the discovery of material located in OSU’s seven cultural resource centers.
    • Ensure that access to online content has as few barriers as possible.
    • Review content provider Voluntary Product Accessibility Templates (VPATs) for compliance with accessibility standards.
  • Evaluate the current level and depth of diversity represented in the OSU Libraries’ general collection.
    • Work with book vendors and update purchasing criteria to incorporate more diversity in content and authors.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES RESEARCH CENTER

Home to the university’s unique collections of manuscripts, archives, photographs and books

  • Offer opportunities for students to engage with primary source materials through experiential learning and instruction. 
  • Ensure the long-term preservation and accessibility of archival materials through secure, efficient and appropriate facilities that meet professional best practices.  
  • Seek and acquire archival collections that further learning and research, and enable discovery of those materials.

TEACHING AND ENGAGEMENT DEPARTMENT

TED connects community members to information in the library and beyond and inspires enthusiasm for learning and research

  • Build a new classroom in the Valley Library that promotes multiple modalities of teaching and learning. 
  • Create learning goals for data literacy to support learners’ abilities to understand, work with and present data.