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STLCC Libraries’ Strategic Plan 2024-2026

Mission

We deliver exceptional instruction, collections, and services to foster academic success and lifelong learning.

Vision

We inspire creativity, discovery, and lifelong learning through transformative teaching, services, collections, and collaborations.

Values

  • We prioritize STUDENTS FIRST by supporting their learning experiences and removing barriers to our spaces, services, and collections.
  • We promote RESPECT FOR ALL through our inclusive and equitable delivery of instruction, services, and collections.
  • We act with INTEGRITY and respect privacy while providing reliable information and services.
  • We invest in COLLABORATION to achieve shared goals, pursue innovations, and foster beneficial connections.
  • We use DATA to make well-informed decisions.

Theme: CREATE AN EXCEPTIONAL STUDENT EXPERIENCE 

STLCC 2024-2026 Goal: 

Goal A - Increase enrollment and retention 

  • Implement Guided Pathways 
  • Improved campus life 
  • Customer service 

Libraries’ Goal 1: Deliver responsive instructional programs to foster students’ academic success and lifelong learning. 

  1. Continue to develop, teach, and improve course-integrated library instruction. 
  2. Create and maintain online learning objects including research guides, videos, and tutorials. 
  3. Increase collaborative relationships for information literacy efforts across the college. 
  4. Offer and teach a credit course to enhance student library research and information literacy knowledge and skills. 
  5. Continue to offer lifelong educational opportunities through enrichment programming. 

Libraries’ Goal 2: Improve physical and online spaces to be more inviting and functional for student learning. 

  1. Improve functionality and usability of online library resources. 
  2. Identify and consistently incorporate useful and innovative technologies into circulating collections, study and instruction spaces, and computer lab equipment across the district.  
  3. Weed and maintain collections to ensure relevance and currency of materials. 
  4. Promote collection content through educational displays, to include visual aids in the stacks. 
  5. Employ clear signage; remove outdated and/or unnecessary signs. 
  6. Update infrastructure and furniture to improve comfort and usability for group and individual study. 
  7. Create spaces for group study and quiet, individual study. 
  8. Conduct library building safety surveys with Campus Police, make recommended improvements, and provide library-specific safety training for staff. 
  9. Pursue capital projects and employ department budgets to improve facilities. 

Libraries’ Goal 3: Leverage outreach and marketing efforts to grow awareness and encourage use of our services and resources. 

  1. Collaborate with other college departments to offer educational programming and to implement student-centered services. 
  2. Promote our career resources to students in coordination with faculty and relevant departments.  
  3. Market our collections and services through regular student communications. 
  4. Develop partnerships and outreach campaigns to staff and faculty to expand their use and knowledge of our services and resources to connect with students. 

Libraries’ Goal 4: Remove barriers to our resources and services. 

  1. Review and revise policies, procedures, and operating hours to promote access and use of the libraries.  
  2. Make Libraries’ policies and procedures transparent and ensure their consistent application. 
  3. Increase the application of Universal Design principles in our online resources through responsible acquisition and content creation, as supported by staff training.  
  4. Promote and support Affordable and Open Educational Resources (A&OER) curricular initiatives.  
  5. Make content from textbooks on course reserve and other materials more readily available to distance learners. 
  6. Use assessment to identify opportunities for quality improvement.  

Theme: IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES 

STLCC 2024-2026 Goals: 

Goal A - Process documentation, automation and training 

  • Accounts Payable efficiencies 
  • Payroll efficiencies 
  • "Fix-It" process for Facilities matters 

Libraries’ Goal 5: Employ reliable data to responsibly and strategically manage budget and systems to encourage innovation and the fulfillment of our community’s needs. 

  1. Minimize non-essential expenditures and maximize district-wide access to resources and services. 
  2. Maintain data and analytics across library operations to inform decision-making. 
  3. Develop collections in relevant formats to support curriculum and in response to student and faculty requests. 
  4. Pursue digital initiatives to enhance access to library resources. 
  5. Consolidate Archives into one location to serve St. Louis Community College. 
  6. Pursue appropriate grant opportunities. 

THEME 3: CREATE AN EXCEPTIONAL EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE 

STLCC 2024-2026 Goals: 

Goal A - Increase employee satisfaction and retention 

  • Increased benefit awareness for employees 
  • Improve internal communications 
  • Improve employee engagement 
  • Performance Management and professional growth 

Libraries’ Goal 6: Support professional development and job growth through enrichment experiences. 

  1. Implement peer cross-training and knowledge sharing opportunities; explore knowledge sharing opportunities between Libraries and other departments. 
  2. Offer group and self-directed training to improve Microsoft Office and other technology skills. 
  3. Encourage and support general professional development experiences through college-provided and external conferences and training experiences. 
  4. Celebrate staff accomplishments and notable job performance. 
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