Mission

The mission of the Sibley-Cone Library is to ensure that students, faculty and staff have access to and are able to be effective users of ideas and information. To accomplish this end the Sibley-Cone Library will provide current, unbiased materials on the level of its reading public, will make available to all faculty, staff and students the resources of the library, will assist in the use of these materials, will provide access to materials not located in the library and will provide opportunities designed to foster lifelong learning on the part of the patrons served.

In order to accomplish its mission the Sibley-Cone Library will provide intellectual access by providing materials which represent all areas of the curriculum in various formats on the level of the patron served; physical access by providing a carefully selected and well organized collection in various formats, interlibrary loans for materials not held, and instruction in use of the equipment necessary to use the material in whatever format it is held, assistance in the use of instructional media and information technology; activities which represent a diversity of experiences and social and cultural perspectives; resources and activities which support the principles of intellectual freedom.

Accomplishment of the Library mission requires that the Library be a fully intergrated part of the curriculum working in full cooperation with the administration, faculty, staff and students and committed to providing unrestricted access to information and ideas.