Vision Statement
The UCI Libraries provide vital leadership in UCI’s quest for increasing distinction as a premier research university. As the intellectual crossroads of the campus, the Libraries are essential to its academic life, and inspire members of UCI’s diverse community to discover, create, and contribute knowledge.
Mission
The Libraries proactively assist UCI’s students, faculty, and
staff in fulfilling the education, scholarship, patient care, and research
goals of the University.
We provide superior user-focused services, accurate and unbiased assistance,
and easy-to- use access to outstanding research collections.
We deliver our services in physical spaces and online environments that
are conducive to study, learning, and discovery.
We preserve our collections to ensure their availability for use and
their survival as valuable cultural assets.
As a major information resource for UCI and its local community, we
contribute to creating and sustaining a well-informed and educated society.
We enable our staff to excel and innovate in support of our mission.
Values
We value our users, and we demonstrate that by our responsiveness to
user needs, continuous improvement, strong teamwork, and open communication.
We value our talented, informed, and diverse staff for their excellent
contributions to the development and delivery of innovative services,
programs, and collections of outstanding quality.
We subscribe to campus-wide statements of values and principles of community
and strive to uphold, incorporate, and exemplify these values in all our
actions.
User-Focused Services
As leaders and partners in the educational mission of the University,
we provide user-focused services that facilitate access to the information
resources critical to learning, teaching, and research. In collaboration
with educators on campus, we provide leadership in developing information
literacy and outreach programs to foster lifelong learning skills.
- Increase campus awareness of the information services provided
by the Libraries through effective marketing strategies.
- Develop a culture of assessment in which user feedback is
continually solicited and applied to the ongoing development and
enhancement of library services.
- Apply the highest quality standards of customer service so
that all interactions with users are professional, respectful,
and rewarding.
- Promote and develop the Libraries as centers for independent
and collaborative learning, research, and creativity.
- Provide easy access to online resources and physical collections
through thoughtfully organized online tools and library spaces.
- Enhance users’ access to global scholarship through
resource sharing and collaboration with other libraries and organizations
at the local, state, regional, national, and international levels.
- Expand the Libraries’ education and outreach efforts
and collaborate with faculty to make information literacy instruction
an integral part of all campus academic programs.
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Research Resources
We develop, deliver, and preserve the Libraries’ collection
of significant and diverse research resources, in all formats, whether
owned, shared, or accessed, that further the University’s goals.
We recognize that our staff are valuable research resources due to
their expertise and knowledge.
- Select and provide effective access to research resources
and global scholarship that support existing and emerging educational
and research interests of the academic programs and centers.
- Ensure long-term use and access to research resources of
all types, such as print, online, multimedia, data sources, images,
maps, and microforms.
- Collaborate with other institutions within the UC system
to create shared collections (both print and online) that minimize
duplication of effort, preserve materials, and ensure that the
greatest possible number of scholarly resources is accessible to
our users.
- Continually enhance management of digital resources so that
they are easily accessible to users, with a focus on simplification
and integration of user interfaces.
- Adopt or develop discovery and authoring tools that will
enable users to access, share, and transform content that results
in new scholarly output.
- Develop pilot projects that explore the UCI Libraries’ role
in the creation, enhancement, publication, or distribution of new
research content. Continue partnerships with faculty, students,
staff, and colleagues within the UC system (UC campuses and California
Digital Library) and beyond.
- Continue to take a leadership role in campus, system-wide
and national initiatives to support and improve scholarly communication
for the benefit of the academy and society.
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Library as Place
We expand, maintain, and promote the Libraries’ facilities as
the intellectual crossroads of UCI's learning and discovery environment.
We provide an atmosphere that fosters the University’s goals.
- Expand and renovate existing library space to meet the needs
of 32,000 students by 2014 and to maximize use of space for learning,
teaching, collection expansion and preservation, and hosting events.
- Create a welcoming, safe, and secure learning environment
that improves accessibility to collections and services for all
users.
- Provide flexible space and comfortable furnishings that offer
a variety of learning and study environments, both quiet and active,
to support the needs of users.
- Host events, both cultural and scholarly, that draw new users
and feature the Library as an intellectual and social center of
the campus.
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Information Technology
We provide information technology infrastructure and services that
proactively support the robust and secure delivery of the Libraries’ resources
and services to our users and seamlessly connect UCI to global scholarship.
We promote the exploration of new and emerging technologies that benefit
users and staff.
- Promote short and long term coordination of information
technology planning and communication to ensure uninterrupted operation
of our information technology infrastructures.
- Replace all hardware and software in a timely manner in
keeping with changing needs, expectations, and standards.
- Develop and maintain a robust, secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant
infrastructure for applications, databases, and storage servers.
- Collaborate with Campus IT to provide a robust wired and
wireless network; userfriendly, secure authentication mechanisms;
and tools for users to create, use, and experiment with digital
learning resources and new scholarship.
- Develop infrastructure, tools, and services to support the
Libraries’ local digital initiatives. Collaborate within
UC to develop digital tools and services.
- Provide an information technology infrastructure that enables
the efficient management of internal operations throughout the
Libraries and that continues to emphasize superior customer service.
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Organizational Resources
We cultivate a dynamic environment that attracts, retains, and values
highly competent and creative employees. We foster collaboration and
consultation throughout the organization.
- Hire and retain a well qualified, talented and diverse staff,
compensated appropriately for their skills and knowledge.
- Motivate staff by providing a positive and productive workplace
where they feel empowered to provide excellent professional service
to support the goals of the University and the Libraries.
- Provide enriched training and professional development opportunities
for all staff to enable them to provide excellent service.
- Practice, promote, and reward effective communication and
civility throughout the Libraries.
- Assess workloads and workplace conditions in order to determine
the staff resources required to fulfill the Libraries’ goals.
- Enhance productivity and quality of work life by providing
staff with ergonomic furnishings, state of the art technology,
and appropriate and functional space.
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Financial Resources
We manage financial resources to support the attainment of the Libraries’ goals.
- Develop appropriate financial plans.
- Appropriate and reallocate existing resources.
- Identify new sources of funding from both internal and external
sources.
- Provide accurate and meaningful financial information that
allows us to assess, improve, and cost-effectively manage our funding.
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