Strategic priorities

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

SP1    Accelerating the development of the Digital Library, fully exploiting the potential of electronic information resources to support learning and research.
SP2 Developing services to enhance the student experience, and supporting excellent customer services with the potential provided by new technologies.
SP3 Supporting the University’s research by collaborating with Faculties, Schools and Institutes on the development of publication strategies, facilitating open access publication and developing digital curation services.
SP4 Promoting and developing information and digital literacies for students and researchers as key skills for future employability.
SP5 Supporting the University’s internationalisation strategy, providing and coordinating services for courses delivered overseas and for international students in the UK.
SP6 Fully exploiting our cultural assets by developing special collections and archives, ensuring that their resources are promoted to the wider community.


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.