We seek to integrate Indigenous perspectives in our services, collections, and spaces. Indigenous community members experience positive and successful interactions with the Library. We engage with Indigenous students, faculty, researchers and local Indigenous communities to ensure that the Library’s collections and services reflect their needs, experiences and perspectives.

We develop relationships with our community by creating opportunities for interaction and exchange, including workshops, lectures, and events. Our community is aware of our role in supporting their learning, research and teaching and knows that their voices are heard as we develop our services, spaces, and collections.

The Library is recognized as a forward-thinking knowledge organization that makes a meaningful contribution to collaborations and partnerships. Campus leaders and external groups recognize and appreciate the expertise that the Library brings to a partnership.

The Library participates in partnerships and initiatives at the provincial, national and international level to grow and expand the reach of collections available to the uOttawa community. The uOttawa community benefits from an increase to the breadth and depth of the material that supports their scholarly pursuits.

The Library is implementing the recommendations of the Ad hoc Committee on Sustainable Library Collections. Strategic and financial stewardship of collections funding is balanced with priorities and the academic mission. The Library plays an active role in provincial, national, and international advocacy initiatives and partnerships. Community engagement strategies have raised campus awareness of the related challenges. The community expresses confidence in the Library’s management of the library collection.

The Library makes a valuable contribution to the global historical and scholarly record by acquiring, curating and showcasing unique and special collections. Our campus leadership in digital preservation ensures that digitally published and digitized materials are available to researchers now and in the future.

The Library collection reflects the distinctive Franco-Ontarian, Franco-Canadian and bilingual character of uOttawa. Our holistic approach to developing French language collections includes collection strategy, internal metadata creation, and discovery interfaces, and improves the experience of students, faculty and researchers.

The Library works closely with campus partners to provide agile solutions for transformative research and learning in digital environments. Our digital leadership is differentiated by our expertise in the organization and preservation of digital assets and facilitating the use of these collections.

The impact of gifts to the Library make a difference in the lives of students, faculty and researchers, both now and in the future. The Library works with campus partners to cultivate relationships with existing and potential donors. Donors are confident in their choice to support the uOttawa Library and see the positive impact of their generosity.

Our robust planning cycle is complemented by project management, assessment, evaluation and communication strategies to support decision-making and improve Library service. Library initiatives are prioritized in accordance with both the Library’s and the university’s strategic objectives.