Operational plan for the University Library

This is the operational plan for the University Library 2025.

Karolinska Institutet's University Library (KIB) shall provide the university's researchers, teachers and students with the best possible conditions for conducting research and education. KIB shall safeguard the values expressed in the Library and Higher Education Act, in particular democracy, scholarship and academic freedom.

  • At the University Library, the ideas of the future and the insights of the past meet in the academic dialogue through exhibitions, workshops, events and lectures in the physical and digital library space.
  • Develop and implement the new mission and organisation of the University Library with a focus on working methods and structure, and with a particular focus on the integration of MHK into the University Library.
  • Ensure continued alignment with GVS with a particular focus on coordinated IT, sustainability and the BZ premises project.

Contribute to the work on KI's priority focus areas, in particular

  • Optimised use of premises, infrastructure and facilities (partial co-location MHK, hybrid workplace project)
  • Strategic and demand-driven skills supply - KI RIMS can support KI in showing which subject areas KI's researchers and teachers are active in.
  • Coordinated and optimised operational support (coordination FM services, cooperation UoL)
  • Strengthened and coordinated security efforts (data retention)
  • Project planning for MHK's move 
    to the Solna campus
  • Co-ordinated IT
  • Develop co-operation on library services with hospitals
  • Develop and implement several projects linked to the open science system: KI Data Repository, journal list, 
    contribute to new activity-based resource allocation model
  • Digitisation of older material (MHK/Lime, RJ project)
  • Develop exhibition space in KI's premises in Solna and Flemingsberg linked to KI's cultural heritage
  • Analysing scientific communication
  • The image makers
  • Physical and digital library environments
  • IT support for students
  • Search missions for researchers
  • Language workshop (support for academic writing)
  • Acquisition, publication and accessibility of scientific information, publications and research data
  • Teaching media and information literacy
  • Develop, disseminate and manage knowledge about KI's history, medical history and cultural heritage

KIB manages a relatively large number of mainly library-related systems. The system management model is divided into clusters (objects). Each cluster consists of several systems. The clusters include support systems for:

  • Strategic publishing
  • Research information infrastructure
  • Support systems for teaching and counselling
  • Communication and case management
  • User support
  • Authentication
  • Making the history and cultural heritage of medicine accessible
  • Responsible for the management of 
    KI RIMS within the digitization portfolio

•112 (4 departments)

SEK 160,000,000