- Enhance our understanding of the needs and interests of our community, especially populations currently not well served
- Build capacity for gathering community input
- Implement ways of gathering student input, especially from underserved populations on campus, including Black students, students of color, and Indigenous students, in ways that respect student time
- Identify necessary adjustments to library services, resources, and events and begin implementing those changes
- Create a plan for updating library spaces to respond to user needs and interests
- Identify spaces in the library that need repurposing
- Prepare for the transition of the Library Annex, including a new Archives space
- Study and address physical accessibility issues in the buildings and digital accessibility issues on the website
- Explore feasibility of changing spaces to reflect changing student needs
- Identify and prioritize spaces needing a facilities refresh such as carpeting, wood paneling, and furnishings
- Improve clarity about how and why to use the library
- Help library users navigate the physical collections and physical spaces
- Help library users develop information literacy skills, including navigating the information landscape and utilizing digital and physical collections
- Provide outreach to faculty, staff, and students about library services and expertise
- Create, better organize, and advertise “how to use the library” resources
- Create a sustainable collection management plan for physical and digital collections
- Set desired target age for physical and ebook collections and set desired footprint for physical collections
- Establish regular inventory, review, and deselection timeline for library collections
- Identify key personnel required for ongoing collection management projects and deselection and equitably integrate those tasks into their position descriptions
- Implement workflows to incorporate more graduate student research and writing into our institutional repository
- Create an Archives and Special Collections collection development and management policy
- Support library staff in creating an empowering and inclusive work environment
- Improve internal communication
- Build cohesion with new staff members, between library teams, and across flexible work arrangements
- Review and revise recruitment and onboarding processes with the goal of making them more equitable and inclusive
- Support flexible work arrangements, including establishing workplace norms for teamwork, collaboration, and technology deployment
- Work to ensure appropriate workloads for library staff that support a healthy work/life balance