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VIRGINIA TECH
Strategic Plan 2012–2018 (excerpts)
http://www.lib.vt.edu/strategicplan/2012-2018.pdf
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E-Learning and Distance
Learning
Transform the Libraries into destinations that propel learning, enhance
research, support knowledge production, and offer a mixture of spaces,
services, tools, and technologies for diverse scholarly needs.
Inspiring Creativity, Curiosity,
and Critical Thinking
Design and implement services, programs, and virtual communities that
advance online and distance learning initiatives.
Research &Curation:
Position the Virginia Tech Libraries as premier destinations on campus for
knowledge creation and collaborative work, while showcasing Virginia Tech’s
culture, creativity, scholarship, and research.
Support new research and scholarly processes and practices by assisting faculty
in collaborating virtually to produce and share new knowledge.
Teaching, Learning, and Literacies:
Implement an integrated instructional program that fosters competencies in
information literacy, digital fluency, critical and computational thinking,
problem solving, collaboration, and communication skills.
Pioneer a holistic and seamless learning model that combines numerous
campus partners into a coworking location designed to assist students with
writing, presenting, media design, research, and related needs including
tutoring, advising, IT help, data and GIS skills, and language support.
Partner with faculty in the exploration and implementation of new pedagogies,
technologies, and learning environments.
Empower students to develop the skills, literacies, experiences, and perceptions
necessary to excel in an analytically savvy, multi-disciplinary, global workplace.
Collections Access:
Make electronic access to scholarship effortless for global users. Provide quick
and easy electronic access to library information, converting analog to digital
whenever possible.
Provide knowledge creation and sharing options that showcase new and
traditional forms of digital research and scholarship.
The Virginia Tech Experience
We embrace a diversity of thought and culture as we find solutions to
information challenges when meeting user needs.
Learning Spaces:
Design and optimize virtual and physical environments that support diverse
learning, cultural, creative, and intellectual needs.
Research &Curation:
Foster an ongoing conversation with the campus community regarding their
evolving research and scholarly needs and activities, which will inform the
Libraries’ development of spaces, technologies, and expertise.
Teaching, Learning, and Literacies:
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