Library Goals
- Provide support for teaching, undergraduate research, and the Union College curriculum. Also, to the extent possible, support faculty research and community access to the library’s collective services and resources.
- Acquire and provide direct access to research and cultural information resources on site (whether in traditional or electronic form) as well as descriptive information about relevant resources held elsewhere.
- Acquire, preserve, provide intellectual control of, and promote the use of Union’s unique cultural, historic, and regional resources including those of Schaffer Library’s Special Collections, Union’s Permanent Collection (art and artifacts), and the materials of the Adirondack Research Library.
- Participate in resource sharing, interlibrary cooperation, document delivery programs, and consortial activities as a way of managing, extending, and enhancing local resources as well as bringing requested material to the Union community.
- Support the campus-wide information literacy program through classroom and one-on-one instruction, collaboration with other College faculty and personnel, resource development, and reference services.
- Make our facilities welcoming places where everyone in the College community and beyond is served equitably and safely and where privacy and intellectual freedom are respected.
- Organize, maintain, and present the library’s collective resources using the most applicable current national and international standards.
- Evaluate and implement technological and organizational change in a manner consistent with our mission.