Mission
The Libraries empower students, faculty, staff, and the broader community to engage critically with information. We support the creation of scholarship by curating resources; teaching the concepts and tools needed to find, evaluate, create, and use information; and fostering a cross-disciplinary community of scholars and creators within our space.
Values
We are committed to:
- Ensuring equity of access to information
- Supporting initiatives that make information more open and affordable
- Creating spaces and collections, and implementing services, that are inclusive and welcoming to all
- Representing the diversity of our campus, local, and regional communities
- Ensuring the preservation of the historical record of the College
- Contributing to the preservation of the cultural record beyond the College
- Teaching students to be independent researchers and thinkers
- Strengthening collaborative models of working with faculty and staff
- Demonstrating a strong service ethic in all of our interactions with library users
- Protecting the privacy of our users, including their right to use digital information without their personal information being shared, exposed or commoditized
June 2020