Content on this guide was frozen in Fall, 2022. Strategic Plan tracking moved to an institution-wide software platform.
Library Goals and Objectives, Aligned with the Manhattanville Strategic Plan
Goal 1: Design Library Services that keep Manhattanville at the forefront of individualized liberal arts and professional education.
- Objective 1.1: Empower innovation and grow new initiatives such as the re-designed First Year Program, School of Nursing and Health Sciences, the ATLAS program, and Design Thinking.
- Objective 1.2: Build on Librarians' teaching skills to promote Information Literacy and Digital Literacy across the curriculum.
- Objective 1.3: Improve both the physical and digital Library to benefit users and make a strong, positive impressions.
Goal 2: Ensure that Library Services reflect and enhance academic excellence at Manhattanville.
- Objective 2.1: Provide efficient access to a broad range of top-quality information resources.
- Objective 2.2: Support faculty teaching, scholarship, and research, with special attention to junior faculty.
- Objective 2.3: Collaborate on creating Information Literacy learning outcomes for upper-level undergraduate courses.
Goal 3: Deploy Library Services that enable Manhattanville students to make connections within and beyond the College.
- Objective 3.1: Use Manhattanville archives and special collections to connect students with our history, our faculty, and one another.
- Objective 3.2: Configure Library the physical and digital library to promote collaboration..
- Objective 3.3: Provide resources and services that connect to the world beyond Manhattanville, such as Interlibrary Loan, and that promote global awareness.
Goal 4: Infuse Library Services with ethical and responsible behavior that makes a positive impact.
- Objective 4.1: Conduct regular assessments to ensure that users have a positive experience of Library services.
- Objective 4.2: Host programming that aligns with the College mission and has broad appeal.
- Objective 4.3: Ensure inclusiveness by improving Library services to remote and online learners, commuter students, first generation students, and at-risk students.
Goal 5: Employ responsible financial stewardship in designing and delivering Library Services.
- Objective 5.1: Project and operate within budgets that reflect the enduring centrality of the Library in academic life.
- Objective 5.2: Increase Library-oriented grant writing and fundraising.
- Objective 5.3: Facilitate uses of Library resources to generate revenue.
Future initiatives under consideration
The following Library initiatives are in the discussion stages. This list will evolve, and Updates will follow.
- Service
- Improve Services to Online and Remote Learners
- Use LTI technology to place subject-specific LibGuides on Blackboard course pages
- Expand access points to Libchat virtual reference
- Consider outsourcing night/weekend virtual service for 24/7 coverage
- Curate/add career preparation resources
- Target service improvements for Adult Learners and Grad Students
- Faculty Support
- Improve research support services
- Promote and support student-faculty research
- Instruction
- Help faculty embed IL learning outcomes across the curriculum
- Create a suite of modular, re-usable online video tutorials
- Develop discrete instructional videos for on-the-fly learning (Library Pit Stop concept)
- LibCal enhancements
- Patron-initiated room reservations for selected spaces
- Patron-initiated Librarian appointments
- Eliminate overdue fines for books from the stacks
- Reassess 24/5 building access for safety/security
- Remain open 24h during finals
- Simplify and improve the Library web site
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Implement standardized authentication for ILLiad
- Improve user experience on mobile devices across virtual services
- Improve question intake, triage, and handoffs between Library service points
- Assessment
- Information Literacy instruction
- Workshops
- Online modules
- For faculty teaching classes across the curriculum
- Space utilization
- Correlate Library use with undergraduate first-year retention and student success
- Events and Experiences
- Develop assessment criteria for the Common Reading Program
- Develop a strategy to promote faculty-authored books
- Collections
- Support emerging programs in Nursing and Health Sciences
- Plan for a future Institutional Repository (longer-term goal requiring both new and ongoing funding)
- Continue building the Faculty Development Reading Collection
- Revise and Update Reference collections
- Curate print book collections with faculty input, including CVs and syllabi
- Improve ebook holdings, using patron-driven acquisitions
- Continue building on archives-related Initiatives, especially with digitized collections
- Staffing
- Plan for operating more efficiently
- Student budget reductions
- Absorbing NY State minimum wage hikes
- Adapting to general calls for budget reductions
- Consider ways to reduce staff and professional salary budgets
- Training/development
- Customer Service (through HR)
- Create Student internships
- Possibilities include marketing, exhibits/displays, peer/competitor analysis
- Promote diversity, inclusiveness
- Expand student workers’ roles and contributions
- Facility
- Develop space proposals around internal partnerships and synergies
- Update and improve building security
- Improve stack core
- Infrastructure
- Expand wifi to tiers 1-5
- A/C
- Appearance, comfort
- Plan potential renovations
- Add group study space
- Add power outlets
- Digital signage for way-finding and publicity
- Administration
- Financial initiatives
- Seek grants and build on pervious grant-funded activities
- Explore matching opportunities for small initiatives
- Maximize value of membership organizations and consortium partnerships
- Document policies and procedures centrally and comprehensively
- Faculty and Curriculum
- Support Design Thinking pedagogy
- Offer scholarly resources for students in ATLAS courses
- Continue promoting unique archival primary source materials in curriculum
- Be a catalyst by bridging between schools, divisions, and departments
- “Meta” initiatives
- Encourage open access (Events, Services, Collections)
- Foster learning and take leadership on copyright and intellectual property
