Mission + Commitments
Mission
Cultivating scholarship and intellectual curiosity in our community through access to collections, expertise, and spaces.
Commitments
Expand the Libraries as a locus of intellectual and cultural engagement.
- Creating inclusive and welcoming spaces where academic and nonacademic discussion, exploration, and events flourish.
Equip students with critical research skills.
- Instilling critical research and evaluative skills necessary to navigate the increasingly complex (dis)information environment.
Create navigable paths to ideas, people, places, and things.
- Using current and emerging technologies to provide services, instruction and resources that are imaginative and responsive to the community's needs.
Promote the creation of new knowledge and cultural understanding.
- Partnering with our community to actively advance the college's research, teaching, and learning goals.
Ensure works of continuing value remain accessible and usable.
- Stewarding our cultural heritage; curating world class special collections and ensuring access to resources in support of the curricular and research needs of our community.