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Focus Areas

LNDL LIFTS

A Strategic Framework For Action

Empower Student Success

Foster Research and Teaching Excellence

Enhance Institutional Impact

Cultivate a Team

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Empower Student Success to Develop Lifelong Learners

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A Strategic Framework for Action

Advance Student Success with an Engaged Literacies Research and Learning Program

Explore Hosting a Student-Engaged Learning Cafe or Coffee Cart

Integrate Expertise, Resources, and Spaces into the Student Success Ecosystem

Leverage Collective Consortial Collections and Technology Investments to Advance a Research Strategy that Supports Student Success and Faculty Excellence

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Partner with Faculty, Staff, and Students to Foster Research and Teaching Excellence

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Implement a Special Collections Research Center

Integrate Expertise, Resources, and Spaces into the Faculty Excellence Ecosystem

Engage with Service-Learning Partners to Infuse Library Expertise, Resources, and Spaces

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Enhance Institutional Impact and Community Well-Being

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Explore Opportunities to Create Incubator or Coworking Spaces

Partner with Facilities, Technology, and Sustainability to Develop Strategic Plans for the Library Plant and Technical Infrastructure

Demonstrate Organizational Culture that Fosters a Sense of Belonging and a Growth Mindset

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Cultivate a Visible, Thriving, and Inclusive Team

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Recognized as an Indispensible Asset in Fulfilling the Educational Missions of LUM and NDMU

Known as an Exemplary Center of Engaged Learning and Research and as an Advocate of Promoting Diversity in the Profession

• Exploring with Loyola and Notre Dame interest in and feasibility of creating incubator or coworking spaces on the lower level of the library for start-ups, small businesses, and non-profit organizations, utilizing data from collection, technology, and space assessments.

LNDL will explore opportunities to create incubator or coworking spaces for community, entrepreneurial, or business partner use sponsored by Loyola and Notre Dame. This includes:

• Expanding the physical footprint of Archives and Special Collections in the Library, and using this visible, accessible space as a catalyst for increased Special Collections-focused faculty scholarship, hands-on student learning, and dynamic programming.

LNDL will elevate its institutional reputation and contribute to a vibrant intellectual community for Loyola and Notre Dame with funding and implementation of a Special Collections Research Center. This includes:

LNDL will partner with facilities, technology, and sustainability departments atLoyola and Notre Dame to develop strategic plans for the Library plant and technical infrastructure in alignment with emerging trends, institutional Laudato Si’ commitments, and state and local laws. This includes:

• Implementing a ten-year strategic comprehensive plan for the building in partnership with Loyola Facilities, the Library’s Joint Facilities Working Group, and the Board of Trustees.
• Completing technology and space assessments to empower innovative research and teaching through the adoption of emerging technologies like generative artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

• Developing a sustainability action plan for the Library that is grounded in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the Laudato Si’ encyclical and the Sustainable Libraries Initiative.

LNDL will engage with Loyola and Notre Dame service-learning partners to infuse library expertise, resources, and spaces into the community-engaged work of both campuses and within the local community. This includes:

• Expanding the collaboration with service-learning campus partners, including elevating the Library’s Spotlight Series and piloting a Library Residency program to enhance community well-being and student-engaged learning opportunities.

• Pilot up to three community-based programs featuring Library expertise, resources, or spaces that support community-based well-being.

• Completing a viability assessment of a student-run entrepreneurial café or cart in collaboration with campus partners nominated by Loyola and Notre Dame.

LNDL will explore, in collaboration with Loyola and Notre Dame, the opportunity of hosting a student-engaged learning café or coffee cart in the David L. and Kathy C. Ferguson Gallery. This includes:

LNDL will integrate expertise, resources, and spaces into the student success ecosystem for undergraduate and graduate students at Loyola and Notre Dame. This includes:

• Increasing outreach to student support departments at Loyola and Notre Dame to expand the use of LNDL’s expertise, resources, and spaces, allowing the Library to become an integrated, indispensable node in the student success framework.
• Conducting collection, space, and technology assessments to provide Loyola and Notre Dame the option of enhancing the Library’s main-level digital commons with centralized student success services to create an academic commons with an articulated model of shared support and use.

LNDL will become known among midsize academic libraries as an exemplary center of engaged learning and research and an advocate for advancing the diversity of the profession.This includes:

• Elevating the visibility of the Library’s commitment and work to grow the pipeline of paraprofessionals and librarians from diverse and underrepresented communities.
• Identifying and applying for 2-3 awards or association memberships the Library would aspire to achieve or join in the next five years.
• Developing an infrastructure to support and recognize the professional contributions of LNDL librarians and staff.

LNDL will advance student success and contribute to student retention with an expanded, engaged Literacies Research and Learning Program co-created with faculty and community partners to prepare leaders of tomorrow with literacies essential for living a prosperous life. This includes:

• Branding, promoting, and aligning LNDL’s Literacies Research and Learning Program with Loyola and Notre Dame’s assessment outcomes.
• Expanding research and instruction to support the projected growth of Loyola and Notre Dame health sciences and STEM programs.
• Enhancing the Literacies Research and Learning Program with the following literacies:

• Data management to support growth in health sciences and faculty research.
• Open educational resources to enable inclusive pedagogical support in alignment with institutional priorities.

• Digital scholarship to amplify diverse voices and promote the ethical use of technology including generative artificial intelligence.

LNDL will demonstrate an organizational culture that enables employee success byfostering a sense of belonging, allowing a growth mindset to flourish, and matching employee career aspirations with available opportunities. This includes:

• Continuing to cultivate a culture of belonging, expanding staff knowledge, and mobilizing organizational and personal commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion by completing Suzanne Haley’s Changing The Lens workshop.

• Articulating LNDL’s strategy and commitment to advancing career development, promoting employee well-being, and supporting recruitment and retention.

LNDL will leverage collective consortial collections and technology investments to define and advance a collection development, technology-enabled research strategy that supports student success and faculty excellence. This includes:

• Articulating library expertise, resources, and technology in collaboration with faculty to support new and existing program accreditation, including anticipated growth in health sciences and STEM programming at Loyola and Notre Dame.
• Identifying opportunities to amplify diverse voices and works, including an assessment of acquiring Loyola’s The Karson Institute of Race, Peace, and Social Justice’s print collection.
• Acquiring collection and technology resources and developing expertise to accelerate use of open scholarship and open educational resources in alignment with faculty needs and Academic Affairs strategic priorities.
• Implementing recommendations from collections, technology, and space assessments to ensure consortial commitments are maintained, collection development to support Notre Dame’s acquisition of Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) occurs, and expertise, tools, and spaces are available to meet demand for digital content creation.
• Engage with organizations that are developing and implementing environmentally sustainable and operationally efficient methods to provide 21st century content.

LNDL will integrate expertise, resources, and spaces into the faculty excellenceecosystems at Loyola and Notre Dame, including evaluating the interest in and feasibility of locating a Center for Faculty Excellence on the Library’s third level. This includes:

• Developing branded outreach to expand the use of LNDL’s expertise, resources, and spaces that support faculty research and teaching at Loyola and Notre Dame, allowing the Library to become an integrated, indispensable node in the faculty development support system. This includes the creation of a faculty library web portal and targeted programming that will promote library expertise and resources most relevant to faculty career advancement.
• Conducting collection, space, and technology assessments to provide Loyola and Notre Dame the option of physically locating a Center for Faculty Excellence on the Library’s third floor with an articulated model of shared support and use.

• Conducting a marketing and communications audit to identify strategies to raise awareness and engagement with the Library.
• Reviewing Loyola’s and Notre Dame’s working group and committee structures to identify opportunities where the Library can add significant value and discuss opportunities for greater Library participation with each university.
• Growing organizational capacity by adding skillsets in marketing, communication, and advancement, while also optimizing professional development investments in operational and educational technologies, leadership, and advocacy.

LNDL will be recognized as an indispensable asset in fulfilling the educational missions of Loyola and Notre Dame. This includes: