 We strive to support a World-Class University with teaching and learning, research, accreditation and giving to the community. Beginning with a plan to redevelop the UAEU Libraries to ‘Redefine the role of the university Library’ I identified the following strategic priorities in Charting Change in November 2016:
Since then I have worked with the University community of stakeholders to develop strategic plans, policies and initiatives based on evidence of current trends, stakeholder needs and resource availability. In 2017 the University recognised the work of the Library team in establishing the Scholarworks@UAEU institutional repository on the Digital Commons platform with the Chancellor’s Award for Institutional Excellence. In my previous roles in the library and publishing industry I have worked to achieve better access to library services for people with disability and in remote locations; to support collaboration between libraries and to promote the benefit of libraries to the causes of community development, learning and scholarship. Having worked with several vendors to the library industry including system vendors and subscription agencies, I appreciate the difficulties in meeting the needs of this market and the need for national and international cooperation with standards and resource-sharing. |
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