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Strategic Priorities
The library’s long-standing presence at the center of campus life fosters academic success, promotes research excellence, and cultivates human connections with diverse forms of information and knowledge.
Please see our Strategic Priorities 2022-2025 for more information
Service Philosophy
Queen’s University Library is a welcoming, inclusive environment that provides an exceptional student learning experience and facilitates research excellence.
We will:
- Seek opportunities for meaningful interactions with you.
- Adapt to meet your needs, and provide accessible, quality service that is respectful, convenient, and efficient.
- Share our expertise and foster your ability to navigate the world of information.
- Build long term, supportive, attentive relationships in an effort to anticipate and exceed your expectations.
- Work together as a team to facilitate learning and innovation to support academic programs and research.
Collaborations
Our best innovations happen through collaboration – across the library, with our faculties and schools and through our regional, national, and international partnerships.
Our collaborations include:
- Association of Research Libraries Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
- Canadian Association of Research Libraries Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
- Canadian Research Knowledge Network Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)
- Center for Research Libraries Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
- Confederation of Open Access Repositories Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
- HathiTrust
- Keep@Downsview
- Matariki Network libraries’ Open Matariki initiative
- National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance (NIKLA)
- North/Nord: the Canadian Shared Print Network
- Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) & Scholars Portal
- ORCID-CA Consortium: The ORCID Consortium in Canada
- Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Library Leadership Team
The Library Leadership Team facilitates connections across the library in support of our services and operations. The Library Leadership Team consists of the Vice-Provost and University Librarian, the Associate University Librarians, and Heads of functional divisions and units. The Administrative & Finance Assistant, Business Officer, Communications Coordinator, and Human Resource Officer are resources to the team.
- Mark Asberg (Vice-Provost and University Librarian)
- Barbara Kern (Associate University Librarian)
- Heather McMullen (Associate University Librarian)
- Ken Hernden (University Archivist & Associate University Librarian)
- Sylvia Andrychuk (Head, Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Amy Kaufman (Head, Law Librarian)
- Sandra Morden (Head, Digital Initiatives and Open Scholarship)
- Brenda Reed (Head, Education)
- Ian Robson (Head, Information Resources)
- Michael White (Interim Head, Engineering and Science)
- Doug Ottney (Information Services Supervisor)
- Sarah Wickett (Head, Health Sciences)
Resources
- Gladys Ndungu (Director, Human Resources)
- Jen Amos (Communications Coordinator)
- Nancy Petri (Manager, Finance and Administrative Operations)
Values
- Information access, stewardship and preservation, on a global scale for local needs
- Collaboration and partnerships across the university, region, nation and world
- Service that is people-centred, high quality, discipline-focused and inclusive
- Learning, inquiry, experimentation, innovation, knowledge and continual assessment
- Community, welcoming space, inclusivity and engagement
- Communication, consultation and sharing of expertise
- Wellness, kindness, safety and respect
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