Strategic Initiatives for FY23
Educational Learner Focus:
- Support the educational needs of UNMC learners by increasing curriculum-based collection development
- With UNMC’s curriculum assessment team, use curriculum and standards data to obtain insight into accomplishments of information literacy objectives by UNMC learners.
- Strengthen and expand library resources and outreach to support K-12 STEAM.
- Develop in-person and remote resources to support student success programs and student orientations to the library.
- Engage students within Canvas and the library website.
- Support trainee’s research, patient care, quality improvement projects, and evidence-based practice by providing instruction sessions, one-on-one consultations, literature search services, and research support.
- Support residents in the submission and authoring process for UNMC-hosted Graduate Medical Education Journal.
- Develop library and information resources, exhibits, and instruction to engage the rural health workforce.
- With UNMC partners, support efficient and clear routes for UNMC preceptors to access library resources and services.
Research Scope and Prominence
- Provide relevant assessments of use of library collections and services for Nebraska Medicine, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, and the American College of Surgeons.
- Develop promotional packages and services that enable the promotion of research output.
- Develop appropriate resources and services for bioinformatics programs.
- Develop a suite of data services and partnerships to support UNMC researchers.
- Develop education and research services to support partnerships that strengthen UNMC’s economic development.
- Prioritize pursuit of research for library faculty and provide the protected time and dedicated resources for them to be successful while at UNMC.
Clinical Excellence
- Provide resources, literature search services, and instruction sessions that clinicians need, thus reducing information overload and freeing clinicians to focus on patient care.
Community Engagement
- Establish programs and partnerships to support statewide engagement in health humanities research, learning, and art.
- Expand the library’s capacity to provide statewide consumer health information by strengthening partnerships, developing virtual and in-person training opportunities, and increasing access to the UNMC Health Information Resource Service.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity
- Equip library faculty and supervisors with information and resources to support a smooth and efficient pathway through the promotion process.
- Expand the library’s special collections and archives in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion through oral histories and collections.
- Ensure the library’s collection has equitable accessibility, including topics related to under-represented groups, and addresses healthcare and health sciences education disparities.
- Maintain and develop library spaces that are accessible, inclusive, and comfortable.
- Maintain and develop online library portals and communication tools that are accessible and useful for UNMC users. Consistently use inclusive practices in services and instruction.
Economic Development
- Empower UNMC researchers to develop prototypes using Maker Studio resources.
Organizational Culture
- Engage the interests of new and existing special collections and archives audiences by providing opportunities to interact with the collections.
- Improve the accessibility of special collections and archives materials through increased intellectual control of the collection and public-facing content management systems.
- Strengthen the oral history program to capture the history of UNMC.
- Promote stories and relevant data that inform audiences of the impact of the library at UNMC, and of UNCL library cooperation.
- Position library staff and resources to support UNMC’s vision to be an academic medical center leading the way in the use of design thinking for innovation.
- Promote transparency to faculty, students, and staff about how the library builds and manages the general collection.
- Provide coordinated and efficient research support for UNMC programs across Nebraska.
- Develop partnerships and resources to support library and campus wellness.
Organizational Leadership
- Develop a library-wide succession plan that incorporates risk awareness and opportunity and growth in library staff.