Outreach & Communications Strategic Steering Team

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Team Purpose

The Outreach and Communications SST is responsible for reviewing and assessing internal and external communications, overseeing the planning and execution of a wide range of intellectual and creative programming, and promoting library resources and services.

We are committed to fostering communications within and beyond TULUP, supporting transparency between departments and administration, enhancing outreach and academic integration, and cultivating the TULUP’s role as a campus and community intellectual center.

Supporting Strategic Actions

The Outreach and Communications SST is a cross-functional group of library staff. As a team, we aim to support the following TULUP strategic actions:

• Enriching the environment for learning and student success;
• Developing programs, services, and resources to enhance intellectual productivity, scholarly infrastructure, new modes of research, and clinical care services;
• Seeking partners in innovation and experimentation to add value to library programs and to identify new avenues for economic support;
• Serving as a center of intellectual and cultural life;
• Sharing the vision, making connections, broadening support.

Goals

Our team will work toward the following goals in 2018.

Internal Communications

• Create and maintain all staff Google calendar 
• Survey staff about current communication/outreach strategies & challenges
• Begin series of informal “chat sessions” for staff to hear about specific departments/projects 

External Communications

• Programming: oversee formation of new group with the goals of assessing current practices and promoting academic integration and community involvement 
• Create a best practices guideline document for facilitating outreach (everything from how to get something on social media or the website, to best practices for e-blasts, to what to say if approached by a journalist, etc.)