Strategic infrastructure

Our vision, values, core services, and strategic directions guide our work and our decision-making.

Wide view of first floor collaborative library space

Vision

UM Libraries is a welcoming and inclusive community of people who engage with learners in respectful, reciprocal relationships. We honour and acknowledge Indigenous Peoples as we strive to learn from Indigenous ways to strengthen our practice. The UM Libraries is essential for individual, community and institutional success and we will be recognized as a trusted partner in knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation for generations.

Values

The values that guide our actions: empowering, innovative, responsive, respectful, collaborative.

Empowering

We use our expertise, services, collections, and spaces to empower students and faculty to achieve their goals.

Innovative

We look to the future and innovate to provide spaces, services, resources, technology, and training that facilitate student and faculty success. 

Responsive

We use technology, expertise, and critical thinking to continuously improve our services to the University of Manitoba community.

Respectful

We provide inclusive, safe and welcoming spaces, and expertly curated collections and services that foster the common good and strive to reflect many voices and ways of knowing.

Collaborative

Through partnerships, we remove barriers and create productive collaborations that bring the world to the University of Manitoba and the University to the world.

Student in Elizabeth Dafoe Library
Computer stations on first floor of Elizabeth Dafoe Library
Library service desk
Librarian helping a student at a table
Groups of students studying at collaborative tables in Eckhardt Gramatte Music Library

Core Services

The UML identifies, acquires and makes accessible collections that support the academic and research mission of the University.

  • Supports accreditation for programs and faculties.
  • Supports academic programs as documented in Libraries Support Statements for course and program reviews.
  • Supports research needs of faculty and students.

The UML provides expert instruction and tools for students to find and evaluate information for learning at the University and into their professional lives.

  • Supports accreditation for programs and faculties.
  • Supports the Strategic Enrolment Management Framework by enhancing the students’ experience and contributing to retention.
  • Supports research needs of faculty and students.

The UML provides faculty and student researchers with expertise, infrastructure, tools and help for research data management and for publishing articles, journals and datasets.

  • Supports researchers in meeting requirements of various granting agencies.
  • Provides tools and infrastructure for data storage and preservation.
  • Supports researchers in knowledge mobilization. 

The UML provides and supports tools that allow faculties, faculty members, and student researchers to maximize their research impact.

  • Supports researchers in creating universal research portfolios.
  • Supports researchers in streamlining article submission to journals and grant applications.
  • Provides information for research grants and demonstrates research impact.

The UML provides space for students to learn and do research, including quiet study space, group study space, and active learning space.

  • Supports accreditation for programs and faculties.
  • Supports the Strategic Enrolment Management Framework by enhancing the students’ experience and contributing to retention.

The UML holds the archives of the University and collections of importance to Manitobans for the entire community and to preserve our heritage and records for future generations.

  • Provides compliance with legal retention requirements for University records.
  • Provides a historic record of the University of Manitoba.
  • Adds to the historic record of Manitoba and Manitobans.

Contact us

Libraries Administration
25 Chancellors Circle
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada

Libraries.GeneralEnquiries@umanitoba.ca
204-474-9881