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:

Current Space Goals

• Work with marketing on better color schemes and map to the building. (Ongoing)
• Study various feasibility options for food and beverages. (Ongoing)
• Survey of staff equipment needs to develop a replacement rotation. (Ongoing)
• 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)
• Adjust headcount sheet accounting for new spaces and times. (2023 - 2024)
• Add fiber optics to the top floor of the library (2024-2025)
• More comfortable, multifunctional furniture on main floor. (2024-2025)
• Reading room for archival research. (2024-2025)

Completed Space Goals

• Address 2nd floor ADA compliance issues. (Complete)
• Get fiber optics into the library to improve Internet quality. (Complete)
• Add color and new artwork to the building. (Complete)
• Create a new headcount system to measure library usage. (Complete)
• Move furniture into spaces vacated by shelves coming down. (Complete)
• Host at least two events at our library with two different groups on campus.(Complete)
• Offer outdoor chalk art and other events. (Complete)

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

• ID & address problematic/outdated catalog subject headings for better searching. (2023-2024)
• Begin cataloging our archives (we have this functionality in Sierra).(2023-2024)
• Clean up catalog records to prepare for Integrated Library System (ILS) migration. (2023 - 2024)
• Identify top digitization opportunities within the Greenlease collections. (2024-2025)
• Identify digitization best practices, equipment, and formal needs.(2024-2025)
• Annual review/deselection plan/process. (2024-2025)
• Prepare aspirational budget. (2024-2025)

• Chart curriculum and changes for proactive collection development. Programmatic accreditation as well. Fuse curriculum knowledge with usage data to make informed decisions on resources. (Recurring)
• Consult with faculty on topic specific collection items. (Recurring)
• Find departmental style preferences - eBook/Print. (Recurring)
• Sync annual renewals to begin at start of FY but after we've been given the budget. (Recurring)
• Explore new resource models. (Recurring)

• Regular review cycle for E.R.M., incorporating formats, CPUs, cost increases & purchase options, ILL costs.(Complete)

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

• Use savings from automation to purchase new Springshare products which aid library assessment and other services (2023-2024)
• Compare the number of technology questions relating to printing services since the arrival of the new desktop computers (2023-2024)
• Get training on the new Integrated Library System (ILS) to provide excellent service to the patrons of Greenlease Library (2023-2024)
• Provide and promote marketing materials via the library desk, social media, and instructional sessions regarding the new ILS (2023-2024)
• Provide and promote marketing materials via the library desk, social media, and instructional sessions regarding new Springshare products (2023-2024)
• Get new laptops for students, perhaps a laptop lending machine. (2024-2025)

• Student study of study room usage. (Ongoing)
• Create assessment measures for TIPASA. (Ongoing)

• Get new desktop computers on the 1st floor to improve printing options. (Complete)
• Create an implementation schedule for the TIPASA interlibrary loan system. (Complete)

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

• Market instruction and consultation sessions (2023-2024)
• Develop student assessment of information fluency (2023-2024)
• Continue developing course materials for Manresa initiative at RU (2023-2024)
• Build partnerships with E-Learning and Center for Teaching and Learning (CETL) regarding library Canvas support (2023-2024)
• Prepare and present workshops to students and faculty regarding Zotero (2023-2024)

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

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

• Plan special events with student organizations such as BSU and LSU. (2023-2024)
• Do a service point study that accounts for research on BIPOC student attitudes of library services. (2023-2024)
• Update Catalog Record Subject Headings to provide more inclusive search terms. (2023-2024)
• Update Rock Nook (leisure reading area for patrons) with social justice and DEI related materials (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)

• Explore how the library could be involved with RU current DEI Efforts. (Complete)

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

• 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)
• Develop and modify relationships with E-Learning and faculty to learn more about the Keypath tool and its relation to online learning. (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):

• Learn and develop understanding of workflow with the new ILS in the following areas (2023-2024)
  • Ordering Materials
  • Activating Materials in EDS
  • Circulation
  • Metadata
  • Analytics
  • Automation of Patron Records
• Find top professional development services for libraries. (2024-2025)
• Create an archives policy & procedures for paging materials. (2024-2025)
• Create an ideal/aspirational budget to grow, based on AJCU & CUPA peers. (2024-2025).

• Create uniform training materials for circulation & reference for the new ILS (Ongoing)
• Review library shared documents (J Drive). (Ongoing)
• Create a staff development plan including professional development & visits to other libraries for ideas on quality improvement. (Ongoing)

• Purchase, populate and use an Electronic Resource Management System (ERMS) to optimally track license agreements, contracts, permissions, and other data related to electronic resources. (Complete)