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Strategic Plan 2020 – 2025

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Advance emerging research

  • Enhance research productivity and workflows
  • Support digital scholarship and computational research
  • Promote new models of knowledge sharing
  • Engage with campus efforts to demonstrate research impact

Engage in educational innovation

  • Strengthen the online student experience
  • Expand affordable instructional content
  • Experiment with instructional models

Broaden and deepen access to research resources

  • Leverage networks to increase the availability of the collective collection
  • Develop next-generation resource discovery, access, and sharing
  • Strengthen preservation capacity for all formats

Revitalize spaces to enable research and learning

  • Advance long-term space plan to meet evolving user needs
  • Optimize facilities to improve collections stewardship
  • Provide welcoming environments

Develop organizational strength

  • Prioritize individual growth, capacity, and experimentation
  • Become a learning organization
  • Create a diverse and inclusive environment
  • Enhance communication throughout the organization
  • Increase resources for transformational change

Mission

The UW-Madison Libraries lead in curating, preserving, and sharing knowledge; we provide environments that inspire engagement, discovery, and learning; and we deliver exemplary information services to advance the mission and strategic priorities of our world-class research university.

Vision

The UW-Madison Libraries aspire to be essential partners in advancing discovery and scholarship. By continuously transforming our services, we empower research, teaching, and creative endeavors that enhance the quality of life in our state, the nation, and the world.

Values

How we work together makes a difference in the quality of our work, and whether we find our work satisfying, energizing, and meaningful. Our shared values include respect, inclusion, communication, collaboration, and empowerment.

Read more about our values.