Discover, Transform, Inspire
In 2020, the Auraria Library set out to discover new opportunities to support the diverse populations of the Auraria Campus, transform our services to better meet users wherever they are, and teach research skills to enable and inspire life-long learning.
Our desire to Discover, Transform, and Inspire led to the creation of the Auraria Library Strategic Plan 2030 road map, which aligns the Library with the strategic directions of all three institutions that comprise the Auraria Campus, and outlines how we will become an indispensable partner in the educational experiences of our students, faculty, and staff.
Phase I: Discover
Becoming an indispensable partner begins with discovery. This three-year period, from 2021-2023, motivated the Library’s employees and leadership to discover how best to position the Library’s strategic direction in alignment with the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and the Community College of Denver.
Rallying around the Library’s core values, we identified eight goals that would set this process in motion.
Strategic Goal 1
Support the diverse populations of the Community College of Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and University of Colorado, Denver in achieving academic success.
Strategic Goal 2
Integrate equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) practices and methodologies across all library operations, services, and collections.
Strategic Goal 3
Maximize scholarly and creative activities for all library employees and support a culture of research and engagement with the profession on a national scale while allocating resources for professional development and related activities.
Strategic Goal 4
Support, train, retain and recruit an engaged and diverse workforce, whose priorities and opportunities align with the library’s strategic directions and take into account all aspects of the employee engagement lifecycle.
Strategic Goal 5
Communicate internally, with the campus community, and the public at large to showcase the Library’s impact in supporting tri-institutional goals and priorities.
Strategic Goal 6
Develop a stakeholder engagement framework that integrates user experience, ethnographic approaches, participatory and equity-centered research in order to identify and meet user needs.
Strategic Goal 7
Pursue diversified sources of funding to support strategic initiatives, collections, and core operations while strategically allocating existing resources to ensure responsible fiscal stewardship.
Strategic Goal 8
Establish a strategic collaboration framework that enables us to develop strong relationships and formalize partnerships at all levels.
Goals Accountability Tracker
With transparency and equity guiding our work, it’s our commitment to make our progress during this and all future phases is easily trackable.
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Next Steps
Phase II: Transformation
Starting in 2024, the Library will take what we discovered during Phase I and use it to transform—reimagine our services programming, and resources in order to better meet the students, faculty, and staff of the Auraria Campus wherever they are along their educational journey.
Phase III: Inspiration
Starting in 2027, the Library will look back on how we’ve discovered and transformed ourselves during Phase I and Phase 2. This process of reviewing how far we’ve come and how we might have inspired our users to become life-long learners will point us towards new opportunities.
