Greenlease Library Strategic Plan & Assessment

Vision Statement - Connecting Rockhurst companions and community to each other and the world to build engaged citizenry, leaders, scholars, and communities who create a more just and equitable world.  

Mission Statement - Greenlease Library is an essential and adaptable component of Rockhurst University, strengthening the University’s learning, teaching, research, and service goals by:

• providing welcoming and flexible spaces in support of study, collaboration, and community building,
• partnering with communities to enhance services and connections as a user-centered library,
• teaching information fluency, critical evaluation, and research skills,​
• creating and maintaining robust, diverse, accessible collections and services to support curricula and research,
• modeling principles of social justice quintessential to Rockhurst’s Jesuit, Catholic mission and core values within library philosophy and services.

Improve library spaces to better support student learning and library services:

• Address 2nd floor ADA compliance issues. (2021-2022)
• Get fiber optics into the library to improve Internet quality. (2021-2022)
• Add color and new artwork to the building. (2022-2023)
• Create a new headcount system to measure library usage. (2022-2023)
• Move furniture into spaces vacated by shelves coming down. (2022-2023)
• Work with marketing on better color schemes and map to the building. (2022-2023)
• Host at least two events at our library with two different groups on campus.(2022-2023)
• Offer outdoor chalk art and other events. (2022-2023)
• Study various feasibility options for food and beverages.(2022-2023)
• Survey of staff equipment needs to develop a replacement rotation. (2022-2023)
• Photo diary of space usage. (2023-2024)
• Install better staff desk that's inviting and friendly. (2023-2024)
• Update M1 Computer Lab Space. (2023-2024)
• Improve ground floor and stairwell flow. (2023-2024)
• More comfortable, multifunctional furniture on main floor. (2024-2025)
• Reading room for archival research. (2024-2025)

Enhance library collections to fully align with learning, teaching, and research needs of students, faculty/staff, and community:

• Chart curriculum and changes for proactive collection development. Programmatic accreditation as well. Fuse curriculum knowledge with usage data to make informed decisions on resources. (2022-2023)
• Consult with faculty on topic specific collection items. (2022-2023)
• Find departmental style preferences - eBook/Print. (2022-2023)
• Annual review/deselection plan/process. (2022-2023)
• Sync annual renewals to begin at start of FY but after we've been given the budget. (2022-2023)
• Regular review cycle for E.R.M., incorporating formats, CPUs, cost increases & purchase options, ILL costs.(2023-2024)
• Explore new resource models. (2023-2024)
• ID & address problematic/outdated catalog subject headings for better searching. (2023-2024)
• Begin cataloging our archives (we have this functionality in Sierra).(2023-2024)
• Identify top digitization opportunities within the Greenlease collections. (2024-2025)
• Identify digitization best practices, equipment, and formal needs.(2024-2025)

Implement a user-centered philosophy within Greenlease to provide exemplary services that help companions achieve their academic and scholarly potential:

• Get new desktop computers on the 1st floor to improve printing options. (2022-2023).
• Student study of study room usage. (2022-2023)
• Create an implementation schedule for the TIPASA interlibrary loan system. (2022-2023)
• Create assessment measures for TIPASA. (2022-2023)
• Get new laptops for students, perhaps a laptop lending machine. (2023-2024)
• Use savings from automation to purchase new Springshare products which aid library assessment and other services (2023-2024)

Increase student information fluency, critical evaluation, and research skills to be fully engaged students, professionals, and citizens:

• Share instructional design information for information literacy team (lesson plans, rubrics, worksheets, etc.). (2022-2023)
• Increase professional development on instructional design for librarians. (2022-2023)
• Interview faculty across academic programs on their instructional and research needs. (2023-2024)

Create diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives integral to library philosophy, services, and spaces that support our diverse communities:

• Explore how the library could be involved with RU current DEI Efforts. (2022-2023)
• Plan special events with student organizations such as BSU and LSU. (2022-2023)
• Do a service point study that accounts for research on BIPOC student attitudes of library services. (2022-2023)
• Update Catalog Record Subject Headings to provide more inclusive search terms. (2023-2024)
• Highlight diversity in archival collections.(2024-2025)
• Propose the library become an ALA DEI fellowship and have a diversity fellowship position at Rockhurst University. (2024-2025)

Strengthen collaborative efforts to maximize resources and increase library commitment and accountability to the University:

• Collaborate with Admissions to be sure tour groups are getting updated and accurate information about the library. (2022-2023)
• Begin planning student advisory board committee including a charge & meetings. (2022-2023)
• Partner with Learning Center on shared services and service hours in the library. (2022-2023)
• Partner with College of Arts and Letters on book club events. (2022-2023)
• Collaborate with Sedgwick on event using our porches. (2022-2023)
• Partner with E-Learning to find ways to support online distance students. (2022-2023)
• Work with marketing to make video of the library. (2022-2023)
• Establish faculty talks in the library. (2023-2024)
• Work with deans and faculty on consulting on program development and realistic program needs and resource allocation for long term support. (2023-2024)
• Work with facilities, FRUL, advancement, to visit other libraries and furniture stores for ideas on new library furniture. (2023-2024)
• Work with IRB/other research interest groups partnering to help faculty understand trends - consuming research, creating research, and publishing research. (2024-2025)
• Join Amigos for professional development and discounts and consider Lyrisis for digitization. (2024-2025)

Improve library best practices to provide optimal services supporting Rockhurst's commitment to excellence (Magis):

• Create uniform training materials for circulation & reference. (2021-2022)
• Create an ideal/aspirational budget to grow, based on AJCU & CUPA peers. (2021-2022).
• Review library shared documents (J Drive). (2022-2023)
• Purchase, populate and use an Electronic Resource Management System (ERMS) to optimally track license agreements, contracts, permissions, and other data related to electronic resources. (2022-2023)
• Create a staff development plan including professional development & visits to other libraries for ideas on quality improvement. (2022-2023)
• Find top professional development services for libraries. (2024-2025)
• Create an archives policy & procedures for paging materials. (2024-2025)