Cultivate opportunities of exceptional library outreach and inclusion within the local, national and international community. 

Key Actions:

• Re-imagining library space to create open and welcoming spaces for our communities. 
• Develop opportunities for alumni engagement and fund-raising activities. 
• Become an exemplar for UCC’s commitment to the sustainability agenda. 
• Greater involvement in community engagement. 

Create energising and innovative opportunities for digital and information literacy capabilities in the Connected University.

Key Actions:

• Operationalise an engaging and interdisciplinary digital, information and media literacy framework mapped to graduate attributes.
• Become an exemplar for online learning, developing a suite of reusable learning objects.
• Facilitate adoption of new modes of creative outputs, building students’ skills and competencies in new media literacies.

Create engaging, delightful user experiences across physical and virtual spaces. 

Key Actions:

• Develop technology-rich, interdisciplinary learning and teaching spaces that foster experimentation, co-creating and collaboration. 
• Adopt methodologies of user experience design and a data-driven approach to delivering library services, spaces and collections.
• Create an intuitive and response online library presence across multiple platforms, embedded at point-of-need. 

Acquire and make accessible top-quality information resources on behalf of the University.

Key Actions: 

• Identify and develop strategic collection themes in order to develop research expertise at a national level. 
• Develop collection management processes and metadata procedures to meet user needs. 
• Develop an informed, data-driven financial process for adequate print and electronic library collections.

Curate, preserve and deliver unique UCC content for the advancement of new knowledge.

Key Actions: 

• Establish a digital services framework to enable the delivery of digitized content.
• Develop a core competency for digital preservation for the University.
• Develop adequate storage infrastructure and service capacity to ensure the preservation and conservation of the University’s unique and special collections.

Lead the University in a global-first approach to Digital Scholarship and Open Science, becoming a hub for innovation in the process of research.

Key Actions:

• Facilitate and drive an engaged community of practice in the areas of digital scholarship and open science, ensuring a greater transparency and reproducibility of scholarly work. 
• Inform the management of University research outputs, driving the adoption of international best-practice and infrastructure.
• Maximise Open Access to UCC research publications, and engage the University community on broader changes related to the Open Science agenda.