Dykes Library Mission and Strategic Initiatives

Mission

The mission of the A.R. Dykes Library of the Health Sciences staff is to work collaboratively with individuals and organizations seeking high quality health information within the University of Kansas Medical Center and throughout the state of Kansas.

Instruction | Resources | Intellectual Property | Collaboration & Outreach | Facility

Information Resources

Identify, license, purchase, manage high quality health care information in appropriate formats which support University teaching, research and patient care.

• Build and maintain a collection of information resources based upon use, teaching, research, and clinical needs
• Develop policies and business practices which facilitate the creation of a collection of high quality, reputable health care resources (print, licensed online, locally published)
• Manage the physical collection in a manner to assure use and ready access by patrons
• Develop a “virtual facility” which supports students, faculty and others who are pursuing health care information including reference services, instruction, resources
• Catalog and process purchased, licensed and digital resources
• Disseminate information via the data warehouse regarding use and cost of resources, numbers of resources available, use of services such as testing events, training events, teaching/instruction events, pager uses, reference encounters, etc.