Further information on the transformation plan
■ Library
Library Director: Isabelle Eula
Library’s missions in alignment with EPFL’s priorities:
- to stand as EPFL’s hub for knowledge and expertise on scientific and technical information in support of EPFL teaching and research.
- to provide seamless access to a comprehensive range of scientific information whether it is acquired by the Library or produced by EPFL community.
- to support users in the retrieval, use, production, sharing and dissemination of scientific information.
- to offer a suite of quality services together with spaces conducive to learning and studying.
■ Strategic support and communication
Head: Caroline Bosia
Mission: provide strategic support to the whole Library and lead the Library’s efforts towards promoting its services, collections and facilities.
- Financial planning and budget management
- Statistics and performance indicators
- Strategic project management
- Staff professional development
Head: Frank Milfort
- Internal and external communication strategy
- Communication activities
- Event design, planning and promotion
- Library environmental scanning and strategic watch
■ User services
Head: ongoing recruitment
Mission: assist, inform and guide users, particularly students, in the use of, and access to, library resources and services.
Head: Gaël Revelin
- Information, guidance and advice
- Onsite and online helpdesk
- Introduction to the use of the Library
- Spaces and facilities
Head: Olivier de Rohan
- Network (SLSP) and interlibrary loan
- Document return
- Litigation
- Collection maintenance
■ Academic and research support
Head: Guilaine Baud-Vittoz
Mission: provide a suite of services in support of studying, teaching and research, aligned to the needs of EPFL community.
Head: Lorenza Salvatori
Head: Chiara Gabella
- Advice, training and expertise
- Good practices in research data management (FAIR principles, DMP, data licensing)
- Open Research Data (ORD) support
- EPFL Data Champions
Head: ongoing recruitment
- Coordination of the Library’s training offer
- Information and data literacies
- Specialized training programs for students, PhDs and researchers
- Individual and group training
■ Collections
Head: ongoing recruitment
Mission: provide EPFL students, teachers and researchers with relevant scholarly resources.
Head: upcoming recruitment
- Collection development, collection management policy
- Document selection
- Needs assessment and usage analysis
- Collection promotion
Head: upcoming recruitment
- Resource acquisition and access
- Publisher and supplier relations
- Usage statistic monitoring
- Special collections (sci-fi, video games, etc.)
■ Digital repositories and archives
Head: Pascale Bouton
Mission: collect, disseminate, preserve, promote EPFL scientific outputs and offer associated support services.
Head: Julien Sicot
- Support, advice, expertise
- Administration and curation of Infoscience and ACOUA
- Management of PLUME platform
- IT support
- Administration of integrated library system (ALMA) and discovery tool
- Technical coordination of library metadata
- Application development
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