Collections Strategies and Discovery
Departments
Acquisitions and Resource Sharing
Collections Strategies and Services
Discovery Services
Resource Management and Metadata
This portfolio ensures the accessibility, discoverability, assessment, and stewardship of inclusive learning and research resources across formats and modalities, supporting the evolving teaching, research, and access needs of the University.
Student Success
- Explore new collections access strategies to allow streamlined use within the curricula
- Explore cost- and space-efficient print collection stewardship options to facilitate transformed study spaces and streamlined service delivery methods
- Enhance and amplify course reserves and materials access strategies to support learners at their point of need
Nationally Competitive Research
- Refine and articulate a holistic collections philosophy that guides collections management and acquisitions strategies
- Engage in strategic assessment of collections to ensure support for campus research priorities
- Explore strategies for balancing print resources and space through collections care models that expand electronic access and elevate the visibility and access of high-circulating print volumes
- Harmonize and leverage our discovery systems to support fuller awareness of new knowledge and collections across the University
Social Responsibility
- Enhance global and local collections, including many voices, backgrounds, abilities, and representations
- Engage in descriptive practices that are representative of diverse backgrounds and voices
- Develop workflows in alignment with best practices that support students and researchers more fully, and emphasize balanced workloads and expertise
- Ensure print and electronic collections are accessible
Updated on May 22, 2026