List of Current Strategic Initiatives

The main goal of this pilot project is making incoming Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) and Honors Theses more ADA accessible. This will involve collecting data and developing templates, style guides, instruction materials, and workflows…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Invest in People
The Open Educational Resource team seeks to sustain the Alternative Grants Program program, which has become an important pillar of FSU’s textbook affordability initiative since 2017 and supports instructors in their efforts to replace commercial…
Strategic Initiative:
Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Invest in People
Building a community of STEM Data Scholars at FSU will increase data literacy by allowing the Libraries to expand the reach and impact of research data services across the STEM community. This will be achieved through the creation of a STEM data…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Promote Critical Thinking
This initiative builds upon the Course Adopted eResources Program through development of an eTextbook portal to serve as the center of communication, promotion, and course-adopted library-licensed eResource access for instructors and students.…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community
This initiative will provide web hosting for digital projects through an educational technology company called Reclaim Hosting. This service would be available to any FSU faculty members, graduate students, or undergraduate Honors students who wants…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Invest in People
FSU's institutional repository, Diginole, is shifting from being hosted under FLVC's architecture to one that is maintained, in-house, by FSU Libraries. The migration involves a complex, multi-layered process that includes: building and…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community
This initiative proposes to create a platform on AWS to store and process e-resource usage data. It will consist of a data harvester, database and front-end interface to query the data. The completed product will allow subject librarians, the FSU…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information
Led by the Teaching, Learning & Engagement Instruction & Reference Unit, the Reference & Instruction Librarian and Library Instruction Specialist will use Articulate 360, a suite of e-learning authoring applications, to create online…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Invest in People, Promote Critical Thinking
Florida State Open Publishing (FSOP) places FSU Libraries’ support for open access publishing and digital project development under one initiative. FSOP provides publishing services for journals, monographs, open educational resources, and digital…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community
FSU's institutional repository, Diginole, is shifting from being hosted under FLVC's architecture to one that is maintained, in-house, by FSU Libraries. The migration involves a complex, multi-layered process that includes: building and…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community
Due to a significant Drupal software upgrade requirement, the FSU Libraries website needs to be migrated to a new infrastructure. This upgrade provides an opportunity to refresh the website to improve user experience and advance our interface to…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community
This initiative seeks to redress inequities and injustice in the descriptive language and narrative framing of archives, special collections, and the institutional repository. In this phase of work, we will apply conscious editing principles to…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Invest in People, Promote Critical Thinking
Our initiative is to improve internal communication within the library. We hope to understand our current environment, develop recommendations for better information sharing, and to reinforce good communication policies and practices.
Strategic Initiative:
Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Invest in People
Create a preservation system for born digital and digitized materials to meet the needs of the FSU Libraries Digital Preservation Framework in AWS using Archivematica (AM), an open source software. Enable AM to work with DigiNole to allow for…
Strategic Initiative:
Enhance Research & Scholarship, Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Establish the Library as a Center of Intellectual Community, Promote Critical Thinking
This strategic initiative will create a group charged with organizing and implementing an on-boarding process for new Libraries faculty and staff. This includes the creation of a workflow that helps new employees understand how the Libraries work,…
Strategic Initiative:
Ensure Equitable Access to Information, Invest in People