STS Strategic Plan 2007
Strategic Area: Higher Education and Research
• Goal Area: Learning Skills
STS and its members are recognized as collaborative leaders in teaching lifelong learning skills, improving techniques for assessing learning outcomes, and in creating environments for discovery.
Strategic Objectives:
Develop and promote competencies of users in creating, managing, retrieving, and utilizing science/technology information.
Develop and promote methodologies to assess student learning.
• Goal Area: Scholarship in Information Science
STS and its members are recognized as authorities on knowledge management; and the creation, collection, preservation, discovery, and exchange of information.
Strategic Objectives:
Support opportunities to study information use in science/technology education and research.
Provide avenues for the dissemination of peer-reviewed scholarship related to science/technology librarianship.
Provide opportunities for librarians to receive assistance and feedback with their research.
• Goal Area: Advocacy
STS influences the higher education and research environment.
Strategic Objectives:
Help science/technology librarians develop the skills to promote their unique abilities and services.
Assist STS members in being more effective advocates for important issues in scholarly communication.
Strategic Area: The Profession
• Goal Area: Professional Development
STS provides continuous learning opportunities enabling members to strengthen their effectiveness and achieve recognition as valued contributors to their academic and research communities.
Strategic Objectives:
Develop and refine professional competencies for science/technology librarians, related to specific roles and responsibilities. Regularly assess the programming and continuing education needs of science/technology librarians.
Provide relevant and timely programming for science/technology librarianship at conferences and online.
Provide regular opportunities for professional networking, growth, and leadership.
Provide mentoring opportunities for science/technology librarians.
• Goal Area: Leadership
STS members are recognized by other professional organizations as leaders and advocates for academic and research libraries.
Strategic Objectives:
Co-sponsor programs and activities with other ACRL sections, ALA divisions, and other professional associations outside of ALA.
Support science/technology programming at local, regional, and national levels.
Advise ACRL on science/technology issues.
Strategic Area: The Association
• Goal Area: Membership
STS's membership growth builds on retaining core membership while recruiting from new and diverse communities.
Strategic Objectives:
Develop active and innovative plans to recruit new librarians to science/technology librarianship.
Promote diversity within the science/technology library profession.
• Goal Area: Sustainability
STS will have the fiscal resources, staff expertise, and organizational structure to advance the section’s strategic plan.
Strategic Objectives:
Explore new and innovative ways of financially supporting the activities of the section.
Develop flexibly and dynamically in response to changes in ACRL.
approved 6/22/2007
STS Strategic Plan Implementation Report 2010 (pdf)
