Strategic & Assessment Plans

Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library Strategic Plan

The library staff in the Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio library pursue strategies and initiatives that support the evolving needs of our faculty, staff, students, and local community members. Our 2023-2027 strategic plan establishes goals and strategies that guides our efforts over the next four years. The plan defines key priorities which allows us to rationalize what successful pursuits we continue, what new initiatives we begin and what activities we modify or suspend in the interest of maximizing our impact on our institution and communities.

Library's History, Mission, Vision, and Values

Library Assessment Plan 2022-2026

Library Strategic Plan 2023-2027

GOAL 1: STUDENT LEARNING 

• Maintain and refine the undergraduate information literacy instruction program.
• Create a scalable, sustainable, and technology-enhanced information literacy library instruction program responsive. to the online and graduate student population.
• Assess and modify current reference /research services to respond to the changing needs of users.
• Advance a culture of academic integrity within the University.

GOAL 2: FACULTY PARTNERSHIPS

• Be a vital University partner in promoting faculty scholarship.
• Share librarian expertise in applicable projects, research, and teaching areas with faculty.
• Coordinate and maintain a robust yet scalable liaison program.

GOAL 3: COLLECTIONS

• Build and steward collections that emphasize academic excellence and center diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
• Provide access to library materials while considering accessible formats through a variety of delivery channels available to a 21st century library.
• Promote and enhance discovery and usage of all collections, including locally created collections and archives, and open access collections.
• The Library will continue to be one of the leaders for the Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Education Pedagogy (OEP) initiatives on campus.
• Increase the use of Archives and Special Collections materials in the undergraduate and graduate curriculum.

GOAL 4: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

• Encourage students, faculty, staff and the local community to develop the dispositions of intellectual curiosity, an open mind and a critical stance.
• Demonstrate the library’s commitment to a collaborative culture by re-engaging in sustainable and intentional collaborations throughout campus, our local community and across Massachusetts higher education institutions.

GOAL 5: PERSONNEL

• Promote an organizational culture that supports the success of library personnel and encourages innovative thinking and creative risk-taking.
• Continue to build a collaborative and flexible organization with a shared purpose reflective of our values. Advocate for more staffing.
•  Increase staff training opportunities for cultural competencies among library personnel by building awareness of systemic inequities and injustices.
•  Enhance the library student worker experience.

GOAL 6: SPACE

• Re-imagine physical pedagogical spaces to facilitate learning and the creation of new knowledge.
• Provide a student-ready space with emphasis on accessibility, inclusiveness, wellness and flexibility.
• Provide seamless access to library resources and services to support Fitchburg State University’s online education students.

GOAL 7: ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

• Assess and refine our new integrated library system Alma and other library systems to improve efficiencies, user experience, technological innovation, and workflows and skills.
• Reexamine acquisition processes including electronic file management, purchasing and financial workflows, to develop more efficient operations and collaborations.
• Engage in current and appropriate assessment of services, outreach, collections and workflows.
• Communicate to the campus community the value of our library in the educational mission of the university.
• Build a positive and efficient internal communication culture.
• Review policies and procedures that create barriers and inequities for minoritized students.
• Seek grants, gifts and other funding sources.