Objectives

1. User Experience: Proactively engage with users and staff to improve services continuously. To understand the needs of users and provide user-cantered services to meet their needs.


2. Teaching, Learning, & Research: Strengthen current and emerging teaching, learning, and research practices at MIST through new services and expertise. To support the mission of the MIST as a premier academic and research institution embracing traditional values of higher education as well as the knowledge required for the global community.


3. Collections & Access: Select, acquire, describe, preserve, and provide intuitive access to a wide array of outstanding research materials. Optimize library processes, mechanisms, and services to support the acquisition and discovery of collections. To select, organize and supply research, teaching and learning resources for all users. To provide an environment that stimulates the use of library materials and services and supports a variety of learning modes.


4. Engagement & Partnerships: Enhance collaboration with stakeholders at MIST and other institutions to determine and implement highly-effective and efficient solutions to accomplish the institutional are goals.


5. Digital & Technology Infrastructure: Build a scalable, extensible, dependable, robust, and sustainable digital and technological infrastructure to enable the library to best carry out its mission.


6. Organizational Culture: Maintain a skilled, agile, diverse, respectful, collaborative, and committed staff, which thrive in an ever-changing, continuous-learning environment. To achieve quality and good professional practice in all activities.