Building strong libraries for the future

• Involve everyone in the process

• Skills management – part of the strategy

• What and how!

Library

University

Environment

SLU Library(Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

50+ staff geographically spread:

• Ultuna

• Alnarp

• Umeå

• Skara

Continuous Professional Development

What

How

Continuous Professional Development

WhatWhat

& How

A more holistic view of the work we do, and a better

understanding of my own role and skill, as well as

those of my colleagues.

Values

• Our values influence our

attitudes and our behavior.

Drawing by Alexandra Åberg

Values

Attitudes

Behavior

SLU Library - values

• Open communication and collaboration

• Innovative thinking and focus on solutions

• Joy and commitment

Strategy process

Analysis, description

Vision & values

Purpose

Success Factors/ Focus

Objectives

Activities

Skills, collaboration, organization, resources

Reporting & follow-up

The Issue

Strategy process developed

from the LOTS-process

Competence Wheel

Communicative

Collaboration, customer

relations, pedagogicskills…

Professional technical skills

Theory, methods… (cataloguing, bibliometrics, Open Access…)

Strategic

Vision, objectives, planning, business intelligence…

Personal

Responsibility, values,attitudes, …

functional

skills

Source: IPF, Uppsala

Translated and adapted by: C Isberg

Our future

• What we were yesterday has made us into what we are

today. What we do today will have an impact on what

we become tomorrow.

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

Building strong libraries for the future

• Involve everyone in the process

• Skills management – part of the strategy

• What and how!

Together we create the library

of the future!