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UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
Library Review: Campus Consultation Document (excerpts)
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/libreview/documents.html
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4.2 Enabling Student Success
The Library’s commitment to student success has been articulated in our long-standing mission
to promote lifelong learning, heighten intellectual curiosity, and enhance creative and critical
thinking skills. The Library aims to collaborate broadly with campus partners as the University
continues to build an integrated approach to enabling student success.
The Library’s role in enabling student success is evolving around five emerging themes:
1) supporting deep learning and academic success, 2) assessing library services and
resources, 3) enhancing awareness of library resources, services, and programs,
4) collaborating with faculty, staff, services, and departments on campus, and 5) offering
seamless, convenient access to library resources and services.
Overarching recommendations to further this strategic direction:
Support deep learning and academic success by participating in the education of
students with respect to the development of information seeking skills that
support scholarly research and lifelong learning. A deep learning strategy guides
the Library in its implementation of this goal
Make assessment a normal part of library staff’s work practices, undertaken
regularly in support of priority setting and yearly planning
Make students, faculty, and staff acutely aware of the library services and
resources that are useful to them or their target audience(s)
Regularly review and enhance the Library’s outreach and marketing strategy
through engagement with our users
Communicate more effectively how the Library enhances students’ academic
success especially to incoming students
Collaborate regularly with faculty and staff and other groups on campus who
interact with students and enable their success
Enable intuitive, seamless, and convenient access to the Library’s resources for
users, using state of the art technological applications
Strategic direction: Enable student success by providing measurably effective education,
outreach, and information services and resources
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