Strategic priorities

Visual presentation of QUT Library Strategic Priorities 2025. Transcript below. Link is to the same image in PDF.
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Image transcript - 2025 Library Strategic Priorities

Student experience and engagement

  • Provide vibrant, welcoming and inclusive physical library spaces
  • Enhance student achievements through engaging activities
  • Partner with students
  • Support learning and research excellence through the use of appropriate technologies

Learning and teaching excellence

  • Ensure students have access to the information and library services they need to thrive
  • Provide online resources that enhance students' learning experiences
  • Collaborate to advance a digital capabilities program

Advance open scholarship

  • Facilitate open access to QUT research outputs
  • Promote Open Educational Resources (OER) access, publishing and capability at QUT

Access to information

  • Actively collect and promote resources reflecting the diversity, equity and inclusion priorities of the university
  • Ensure access to physical and digital collections is sustainable and meets the contemporary needs of the curriculum and the QUT community
  • Champion barrier-free access to low- or zero-cost textbooks
  • Support the QUT Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Protocol

Research quality

  • Support the university's research priorities, particularly: - reimagining research assessment - research data management
  • Increase connections with early career researchers
  • Develop a library strategy for digital literacy and GenAI

People and culture

  • Equip the QUT Library team to meet future opportunities and challenges
  • Foster a culture that values user experience and innovation
  • Streamline communication channels within the library

Vision

QUT Library.
At the heart of the campus: empowering people to succeed.

Values

The Library embraces and promotes QUT's values of ambition, curiosity, integrity, inclusiveness, innovation and academic freedom. Everything we do is underpinned by QUT's priorities and commitment to: Creativity and Entrepreneurship, Health and Wellbeing, Inclusion and Social Justice, Recognising and Fostering Indigenous Australian Excellence, and Sustainability and the Environment.

We also endorse the core values of the library profession as stated by the Australian Library and Information Association:

  • Promotion of the free flow of information and ideas through open access to recorded knowledge, information, and creative works
  • Connection of people to ideas
  • Commitment to literacy, information literacy and learning
  • Respect for the diversity and individuality of all people
  • Preservation of the human record
  • Excellence in professional service to our communities
  • Partnerships to advance these values.

What we do

QUT Library provides resources, services, spaces, and activities that support the learning, teaching and research needs of the QUT Community and that align with QUT's Strategic vision, as outlined in Connections - the QUT Strategy 2023-2027.

Enablers

Our priorities are underpinned by:

  • Expert staff
  • Customer focus
  • Robust technology and Infrastructure
  • Evidence: analytics, data, and feedback
  • Strong partnerships within, and outside QUT
  • Financial responsibility
  • Commitment to championing diversity, equity and inclusion
  • Commitment to championing Indigenous Australian knowledge and culture

Previous strategic priorities

See previous strategic priorities and key achievements: