■ Our mission
We contribute to the openness and dissemination of scientific knowledge in alignment with EPFL’s mission and priorities.
We provide EPFL learning, teaching and research communities with support, advice, and expertise in the field of scientific information.
We are committed to facilitating the creation, dissemination, promotion and preservation of EPFL’s academic and scientific output.
We develop relevant collections, offer high-level services and training, and provide stimulating and inclusive study and collaboration spaces to address the needs of our audiences.
Driven by EPFL’s commitment to excellence, we work together with all EPFL partners to promote academic success, advance research, and support Open Science.
■ Our vision
An influential advocate of the free circulation of knowledge, EPFL Library provides inspiring experiences to its communities, to foster knowledge creation and learning.
EPFL Library aims to positively impact professional and scientific practices to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
■ Our values
■ Organizational chart and team
The EPFL Library (SISB) reports directly to the Vice-Presidency for Academic Affairs (VPA).
Head
Strategic support and communication
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
- Internal and external communication strategy
- Communication activities
- Event design, planning and promotion
- Library environmental scanning and strategic watch
User services
Assist, inform and guide users, particularly students, in the use of, and access to, library resources and services.
- Information, guidance and advice
- Onsite and online helpdesk
- Introduction to the use of the Library
- Spaces and facilities
- Network (SLSP) and interlibrary loan
- Document return
- Litigation
- Collection maintenance
Academic and research support
Provide a suite of services in support of studying, teaching and research, aligned to the needs of EPFL community.
- Coordination of the Library’s training offer
- Information and data literacies
- Specialized training programs for students, PhDs and researchers
- Individual and group training
- Advice, training and expertise
- Good practices in research data management (FAIR principles, DMP, data licensing)
- Open Research Data (ORD) support
- EPFL Data Champions
ETH Domain “Open Research Data” (ORD) Program – Measure 3 (project)
Collections
Provide EPFL students, teachers and researchers with relevant scholarly resources.
- Collection development, collection management policy
- Document selection
- Needs assessment and usage analysis
- Collection promotion
- Resource acquisition and access
- Publisher and supplier relations
- Usage statistic monitoring
- Special collections (sci-fi, video games, etc.)
Digital repositories and archives
Collect, disseminate, preserve, promote EPFL scientific outputs and offer associated support services.
- IT support
- Administration of integrated library system (ALMA) and discovery tool
- Technical coordination of library metadata
- Application development
- Support, advice, expertise
- Administration and curation of Infoscience and ACOUA
- Management of PLUME platform
EPFL archives
