Commitment to Excellence

To work together as a team committed to provide the best possible service to our clients. We opt to maintain a safe, quiet, supportive and welcoming study, reading and research environment.

Transparency and Accountability

We use resources in an effective, ethical, transparent and responsible manner.

Innovation

We provide training opportunities for all our staff to develop their knowledge and skills, and encourage innovation and respond creatively to new challenges.

Open Communication

We promote open, appropriate and timely communication to engage and inform students, staff and all our clients.

Diversity

We embrace diversity and treat each other and our clients with respect and dignity.

Goals

• Secure adequate facilities and resources and manage these creatively to serve as an intellectual home to students and staff and the community at large
• Provide greater access to digital collections while continuing to build and improve collections in all formats to meet research, teaching and learning needs of the University
• Recruit, hire, and retain quality staff with expertise in delivering excellent service in response to the rapidly changing needs of the University
• Provide an easily accessible, user-friendly and safe environment that fosters research and study, teaching and learning for both library users and library employees

• Apply appropriate technological innovations and promote innovative adoptions of emerging learning technologies to achieve productivity and efficiency
• Communicate library services to raise awareness and promote partnership with other libraries, educational institutions and local community
• Create a forward thinking, dynamic staff that is responsive and flexible in order to achieve the library mission and goals
• Continue to improve the library’s effectiveness through systematic, ongoing outcome assessment
• Offer formal and informal instructions to promote information literacy