During the summer of 2021, HSLIC employees developed a new strategic plan for the library. Consultant Janice Jaguszewski facilitated 18 listening sessions with UNM HSC faculty, staff, students, leadership, and HSLIC employees. HSLIC faculty and staff used findings from these listening sessions to identify strategic directions for HSLIC over the next 3 years. All HSLIC faculty and staff participated in this process. 

As a result, they developed 4 strategic goals:

  1. Champion inclusivity, equity, and accessibility: Build an organization that cultivates and values diversity, recognizing the strength that it brings to our community and operations. 
  2. Empower our communities to engage with health information: Advance the missions of the academic health center by implementing innovative and inclusive programs and reimagining our collections. 
  3. Advance scholarly impact: Evolve spaces, programs, and technologies that facilitate innovative approaches to creating, analyzing, preserving, and openly sharing research. 
  4. Prioritize a balanced, learning-focused workplace: Foster a healthy work-life balance and a community of continual learning and growth. 

With FY2024 in the final stretch, HSLIC has completed most of the strategies and tasks on the FY2022 – FY2024 HSLIC Strategic Plan. Accomplishments include:

  • Hosted 15 trainings and 5 events for HSLIC employees and the broader UNM HSC community to enhance HSLIC’s efforts around equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and justice.
  • Created a wellness room; built a new universal restroom; hung welcome signage in different languages; offered free menstrual products in all library restrooms; hosted virtual and physical exhibits; and purchased many new titles toward creating an inclusive, visible, accessible and engaging environment for the UNM HSC community.
  • Increased the scope of the Native Health Database, and updated the library’s collection development manual and special collections policies.
  • Began mapping curricular competencies for each UNM HSC educational programs to library instruction, identifying gaps and expanding instruction within the curricula.
  • Increased the number of UNM’s transformative agreements and offered open access programming to campus.
  • Restarted HSLIC’s outreach program by hosting an outreach-focused National Library of Medicine Fellow and hiring an Outreach and Community Engagement Librarian. Increased the scope of HSLIC’s outreach events and activities.
  • Expanded the number and variety of instructional offerings available to UNM HSC related to research, scholarship, publishing, data, and open science.
  • Offered new resources and increased support to faculty and students interested in conducting systematic reviews.
  • Implemented an internal seed funding grant program; provided resources for faculty librarians to obtain their Academy of Health Information Professionals Certification; and hosted an event showcasing HSLIC employee scholarship.
  • Developed and administered 4 workplace culture surveys and implemented new programs toward creating a healthy work environment.
  • Provided more resources, including funding, to employees seeking professional development.

Over the next few months, HSLIC faculty and staff are evaluating the 4 strategic goals to determine new strategies and tasks. They are also investigating new goals for the next 3-year cycle.
Visit HSLIC’s Strategic Planning page for more information. Copies of previous strategic plans for HSLIC can be found in the UNM Repository.