UA Libraries

Strategic Plan

Strategic Directions

• CATALYST:
  

• CHAMPION:

• CONNECTOR:

The library is a catalyst in the UA community for inventing new ways of ensuring the University’s success

The library is a champion of diversity, social justice and equity

The library is a connector of people, resources and ideas

The library is a lab transforming the way people teach, learn, research and work

Implimentation

• March 12 : Department heads float actions/initiatives and assess inter-dept. linkage opportunities
   
• April 2: Departmental actions/initiatives collected and aggregated
   
• May 14: Essential work plans submitted to supervising dean
  • Semesterly reporting (Aug, Jan, May). Rebecca and dept. heads discuss progress as measured by metrics
    
     

• Strategic Plan directions to persist for ~3 years
   

• Commitments under each direction to be revised every 12 to 18 months to stay current

Diversity, Social

Justice, and Equity Council

Happenings

• 2nd Annual UA Inclusive Excellence Symposium on March 30th (300 person limit)
   
• Hot topic: Libraries as neutral spaces
  • Never neutral: Libraries, technology, and inclusion
  • Black Lives Matter! : Shedding library neutrality rhetoric for social justice
     
• Microaggressions Workshop (Feb 15)
• Ensuring D&I embedded in UAL strategic map
• Drafting 2018 priorities
   
• Slack channel: #dsjec_news
• Listserv: LBRY-DSJEC

Accomplishments

FY 2016-17 on Box: https://tinyurl.com/y7bkxwv

• Workshops:

  • Allyship

  • Inclusive Leadership

  • Implicit Bias

• LibGuide! Diversity and inclusion support resources for students and faculty

• Letters

  • UA President Search Committee supporting diversity

  • ABOR supporting DACA students

  • DSJEC recommendations to UAL Cabinet

UCAP

University Career Architecture Project

UCAP

• Campus-wide effort to reduce the number of job categories on campus through career models and explicit level descriptors
   
  • Provide market based salaries
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• Campus-wide effort to reduce the number of job categories on campus through career models and explicit level descriptors
   
  • Provide market based salaries
  • An annual lifecycle model for strategic compensation planning and management

In the Lib

• Initial analysis of jobs unique to the Libraries
  • UAL HR and small group of volunteers serving as subject matter experts
     
  • To be completed in by the end of Feb

SSD

Student Success District

Currently....

• Change of priorities
  • Work to start in the east
  • R&L move postponed to January
     
• Architecture firm to have finalized design documents drafted in early March
  • Revision to continue into May
     
• Construction to start late summer

5th Floor

• Local firm to provide consultation and guide redesign
   
• Work to start early summer
   
• Hayri to have a dedicated position to offload some of the cooperative planning work

4IR

Fourth Industrial Revolution

Fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres

In Education

• Creativity will be a top three skill needed by workers
  • negotiation and flexibility
     
• There is now no defined state of "educated"
  • Students must develop learning agility to adapt
     
• Educational systems must learn to adapt to evolving job markets and content delivery systems

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Education System, how to respond?

At the Libraries?

• Become more efficient in content exposure/delivery
   
• Provide resources to create content, not just harbor it
   
• Adoption of emerging tech
  • AR, VR, AI, IoT, 3D Printing, Blockchain 2.0, Robotics, Synthetic Biology
     
• Promotion of humanities
   
• Intro' and extro' sepection
   
• Continuous education of Libraries