Vision and organisation

Stockholm University Library is a central support for the university’s researchers, teachers and students. Our goal is to create the best conditions for research, teaching and scholarly communication.

Stockholm University Library has its own infrastructure, which includes both the physical library and electronic resources. In addition to offering a service to our library users at Stockholm University and the general public, we are also a driving force in publishing issues and open science.

Vision

Smart, brave and sustainable infrastructure with a focus on truth-seeking and reliable knowledge.

Overall goals

Our vision is obvious to all employees and permeates the organization's operations and development in a changing world.

We develop new solutions by having the courage to test, challenge and question.
Our services are reliable and create value for our users.
We automate more to free up resources for greater benefit to the university.
Our working method leads to self-organised groups, where everyone contributes and feels involved.

The vision of Stockholm University Library. Photo: Stockholm University Library

Media policy

Information supply at Stockholm University Library shall give our primary users, ie the university’s students, teachers, and researchers, access to the media resources needed for teaching and research conducted at Stockholm University.

Media acquisition and collection management at the library are strictly demand-driven. We choose primarily the electronic format.

Media policy 2024 pdf, 184.9 kB.

Procured suppliers

The library primarily uses procured suppliers for its media acquisitions.

Public library

Stockholm University Library is a public library and thus open to the public who is welcome to use existing material. Most of the library’s printed collections are available to other libraries through interlibrary loans. The electronic media resources are available to the public on site at the library.

Organisation

The Library is part of the University Administration and its overall focus is determined by the Interdisciplinary Council.

Stockholm University organisation chart

Archiving and registration

The library also includes the Central Archives Services and Central Registry Services:

Archiving and registration

Our history

When Stockholm University was founded at the end of the 1870s, the foundations were also laid for the research library that is now Stockholm University Library.

Library management

The management team deals with overall issues and questions of strategic importance for the organisation and is advisory to the library director in decision-making.

The university library management team consists of the library director and five section managers.

Contact information for the library management team can be found below.