Library 使命及抱负

The 正规博彩十大网站排名 图书馆系统 is committed to supporting and furthering Kennesaw State University’s mission of being a powerful, 多样化的, 以学生为中心, and research-driven university. The 图书馆系统 carefully cultivates resources, 服务, and spaces that enhance teaching, 学习, 奖学金, and creative endeavors for our users. These efforts focus upon supporting student success--especially advancing undergraduate programs, supporting the graduate programs, furthering research with relevance, and promoting 终身学习. 

The 正规博彩十大网站排名 Library system will advance student success, 终身学习, and research with relevance through teaching, 访问, and discovery with the expertise and dedication of our professional faculty and staff.  

The 正规博彩十大网站排名 图书馆系统 faculty and staff strive to embody the University System of Georgia's Core Values of integrity, 卓越, 问责制, and respect in addition to the American Library Association’s Core Values of 访问, confidentiality/privacy, 民主, 多样性, 终身学习, 知识自由, 保存, 公共利益, 专业, 服务, 社会责任, 和可持续性. Our Professional Values Statement reflects our organizational culture and shared beliefs, which guide us in our courses of action and form a foundation for our overall effectiveness.

学生的成功: We focus on creating a user-centered organization that places the success of our students as our highest priority. We strive for 服务 卓越 in pursuit of this value. 

终身学习: We promote and support the lifelong pursuit of knowledge and are committed to the academic success and personal growth of our students, 我们的教师, 我们的员工. Our focus on developing information literacy skills for our users prepares them for futures beyond their matriculation at 正规博彩十大网站排名 and ensures lifelong success for 正规博彩十大网站排名 students. 

创新: The 正规博彩十大网站排名 图书馆系统 encourages creative solutions and the utilization of new technologies and pedagogical strategies to improve our resources and 服务. We seek innovative ideas and approaches in our pursuit of continuous improvement in supporting student success and research with relevance. 

Diversity and Inclusion:  The 正规博彩十大网站排名 图书馆系统 values 多样性 and inclusion in our 服务 and resources. We believe that 多样性 strengthens an organization and we strive to ensure that our employees and users feel valued, 支持, ,听到. 

合作: We strongly believe in 协作 and teamwork, both internally and with other departments, 大学, and institutions to achieve common goals. The 图书馆系统 actively pursues and supports interdisciplinary initiatives.
 
研究 with Relevance: Building on our professional values and expertise in information science, we promote and support research with relevance for the 正规博彩十大网站排名 community. 为此目的, we actively pursue collaborative endeavors with faculty, staff and students across campus, continuously curate and develop library resources, offer research assistance and support for the 正规博彩十大网站排名 community, and encourage the scholarly activities of the 正规博彩十大网站排名 图书馆系统's faculty and staff.

The 正规博彩十大网站排名 图书馆系统 advances professional values of 知识自由, intellectual property rights, user privacy and confidentiality, 可访问性, 协作, and user-centered 服务.  

To accomplish this, we will:   

• Resist all efforts at censorship. 
• Protect the right to privacy and confidentiality of library users.  
• Support the University System of Georgia’s general education goal of promoting data fluency and information literacy through targeted information literacy instruction to the 正规博彩十大网站排名 community. 
• Respect intellectual property rights and advocate for the balance between the interests of information users and the rights of information holders through policy and educational programming.  
• Ensure responsible stewardship of funding and resources by containing costs and optimizing efficiencies.  
• Promote 多样化的 voices in our resources, 服务, and staffing.  
• Support academic integrity and deter plagiarism through user education.  
• Remove barriers to 可访问性 of resources and 服务. 
• Commit to a user-centered approach and demonstrate the centrality of users in all aspects of 服务 design and delivery in the physical and virtual spaces.  
• Collaborate across campus and institutional boundaries.   
• Pursue initiatives to promote cost-savings for students, such as Affordable Learning Georgia and the Textbook Transformation Grant efforts.  
• Support 终身学习 through the promotion of open educational resources.