Division Reports
Discover the Division's progress and planning through our divisional reports. Below includes our five-year strategic roadmap, annual reports, survey feedback, and related task force publications to help you understand what we’ve done, where we’re headed, and how we engage with the campus community.
LITS 5-Year Strategic Roadmap
The roadmap outlines LITS’ long-term goals and progress in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion; expanding accessibility and belonging; strengthening teaching, learning, and research support; modernizing enterprise systems and information security; and enhancing community engagement through innovative services and spaces. See highlights below or access the full roadmap here.
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Prioritized equity in student hiring and professional development.
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Expanded mentorship programs (e.g., Careers in Library & Information Science bootcamp).
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Advanced inclusive cataloging and metadata practices, diversifying descriptive language.
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Supported exhibitions and collections work through an anti-racism lens (e.g., Who Built Bryn Mawr?).
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Helped draft and implement the College’s accessibility policy and UDL guidelines.
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Enhanced accessibility in digital collections, knowledge bases, and teaching tools (Ask Athena, Yuja Panorama in Moodle).
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Improved physical library spaces, displays, and exhibitions to foster inclusivity.
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Supported the Data Science program (piloting RStudio Cloud, GitHub Campus, classroom/lab upgrades).
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Strengthened Digital Competencies and Digital Scholarship programs with intensives, workshops, and symposiums.
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Grew support for faculty research, digital publishing, and interdisciplinary communities of practice.
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Rolled out multi-factor authentication, whole-disk encryption, vulnerability testing, and GLBA compliance measures.
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Piloted ransomware exercises and external penetration testing.
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Prepared for next-generation infrastructure investments, cloud strategy, and IoT network segmentation.
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Planned and began migration to a next-generation ERP system (Workday) and explored BiCo SIS.
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Upgraded PeopleSoft tools, PowerFAIDS, and ARD platforms.
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Supported institutional data governance and early business intelligence models.
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Launched academic department visits to align services with faculty needs.
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Expanded student-curated exhibitions and public art.
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Piloted new support tools and streamlined client services with updated knowledge bases and ticketing systems.
LITS Annual Report
Each annual report below provides a year-by-year summary of LITS’s activities, accomplishments, metrics, and reflections, giving insight into our evolving work and how we respond to needs and opportunities.
Fiscal Year 2024
Highlights: Selected Workday for ERP migration, advanced research computing and generative AI initiatives, and expanded accessibility, exhibitions, and student engagement programs
Fiscal Year 2023
Highlights: Launched next-generation enterprise systems planning, expanded faculty partnerships, and strengthened student programs like Students Shape the Shelves and Digital Scholarship Fellowships
MISO Survey
The MISO Survey report is based on Bryn Mawr and national data collected via a web-based quantitative survey. The survey is designed to measure how faculty, students and staff view the library and computing services, and the report focuses on key areas of interest at Bryn Mawr as well as national trends.
Digital Bryn Mawr Task Force Report
Bryn Mawr's Board of Trustees conducted a task force on Digital Bryn Mawr from fall 2011 through spring 2014. The Digital Bryn Mawr Task Force report documents a set of recommendations that emerged from the process, focused on academics, digital external relations, and foundational investments in infrastructure, tools, and expertise. The recommendations all support three high-level goals:
- Enabling digital fluency for students, faculty and staff
- Continuing to develop appropriate uses of technology for the liberal arts context
- Experimenting, assessing, learning, iterating – striving to be agile
Operationalizing the Digital Bryn Mawr priorities on campus has included creation of Bryn Mawr's new Digital Competencies Framework and integration of the competencies into curricular and co-curricular contexts for students, investment in Bryn Mawr's signature Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts program, and development of a digital scholarship program that engaged students, faculty, and staff in shared research projects published in contemporary forms. Digital Bryn Mawr goals inform priorities of LITS and the College as we continue to ensure that students are well-prepared for life and work in the digital age.
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