Newcastle University

The Library's Strategic Priorities for the next five years are focused on six areas of activity:

SP1	Developing the Virtual Library, fully exploiting the potential of digital information resources and digital tools to support learning and research.
SP2	Providing services to enhance the student experience through improved engagement, and supporting excellent customer services with the potential provided by new technologies.
SP3	Supporting the University’s research by collaborating with Faculties, Schools, Institutes and other Professional Services on the development of publication strategies, facilitating open access publication and developing digital curation services.
SP4	Exploiting our cultural assets by developing special collections and archives, ensuring that  they are  fully utilised to the benefit of research, recruitment and the wider community.
SP5	Supporting the University’s Internationalisation strategy, providing and coordinating services for courses delivered overseas and for international students in the UK.
SP6	Promoting and developing information and digital literacies for students and researchers as key skills for future employability.

Underlying these priorities is a number of Strategic Objectives (SO), mapped onto the University's core functions, and supported by a range of Enabling Objectives (EO) which focus on institutional and operational sustainability.