Enhancing Learning, Creating Information Hubs, and Building Community Across Diverse Campus Groups

Abstract

The UCSF Library spearheads innovative efforts to engage campus constituencies and support learning and connection. We are a graduate study health-sciences campus with programs in Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, and Pharmacy, and a Graduate Division. Our campus is distributed throughout the city of San Francisco, and our campus population very diverse, including researchers and learners from many countries. The library provides collaborative services supporting research, teaching, and data management. We have created several hubs that provide an array of services to engage members of our campus community. Our education hub teams include the instructional design and teaching support team, the data science and open scholarship team, the education and research librarians’ team, and the UCSF education IT team (Ed-IT). This poster will outline the breadth and scope of services provided across our campus, such as scholarly communication and publication support, technology tools, embedded librarians and outreach to underserved populations, curriculum support, workshops and classes. It will highlight the various support hubs, including a new enterprise-wide hotel hub. It will also present the diversity of our campus and our PRIDE values, which encompass professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity, and excellence.