The Drexel Libraries' 2023 - 2025 strategic plan aligns our work with the core imperatives outlined in Drexel 2030, the University's strategic plan.

The Drexel 2030 strategic imperatives for which the Libraries can most uniquely contribute include: 

• Enhance and expand high-quality, immersive learning experiences
• Expand Drexel’s research impact
• Empower Drexel students to be purpose-driven, global citizens
• Foster and strengthen an inclusive and equity-driven culture

We will continue to leverage our resources and professional commitments to support these imperatives while championing freedom of speech, equity and privacy of information access, and respect of intellectual property. We commit to leveraging our holistic perspectives, continuous service quality improvement approach to management, and a deeply grounded, but ever-adapting, dedication to the library and information science profession.  

The following strategic priorities will guide us into the future as we continue to design, build, and maintain infrastructures and quality services that connect people, information, and technology critical for academic and life-long success.

Strategic Priorities: Enhance, Expand & Empower  

Enhance Drexel's Diverse Intellectual Culture 

The Libraries leverages its expert knowledge of scholarship, information systems, and services to provide the Drexel Community with equitable access to authoritative information and help make sense of diverse sources of information and data.

• Maximize cost-effective access to information through a combination of consortial agreements, licensing, prudent purchasing, resource sharing, and vendor partnerships.
• Provide guidance and scholarly communications expertise to help the Drexel community navigate authoritative research repositories, author rights, publishing, and copyright.
• Invest in resources from diverse authors and creators that authentically reflect people, cultures, ideas, information, stories, and experiences of minoritized groups.

Expand Drexel's Research Reputation 

The Libraries improves institutional infrastructure to connect people and knowledge that will expand the global awareness and impact of Drexel-generated research.

• Build and maintain an authoritative database of metadata about Drexel-generated research output and its creators.
• Model records management through metadata curation and preservation of Drexel’s electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
• Develop and provide tools to help researchers obtain research grants, conduct their systematic inquiry, and disseminate resulting new knowledge.

Empower Drexel Students to Utilize Scientific Reasoning 

The Libraries connects people, information, and technologies to empower Drexel students with scientific reasoning and a global viewpoint.

• Enable embedding of scientific reasoning and critical thinking across the curriculum through alignment with DUL-delivered informal student learning experiences.
• Create a hybrid destination for information and data exploration, leveraging peer learning and multi-literacies training programs.
• Evolve the Libraries organization to maximize staff expertise and to adapt the hybrid workplace and informal learning environments that model a student-responsive culture of inclusivity and immersive learning.