Quinn Library Mission, Vision, and Values

MISSION

Quinn Library provides excellent service, education, and resources to all of our stakeholders – faculty, staff, students, and community members – by creating opportunities for transformative intellectual and cultural exchange and affording access to an exceptional special collection.

VISION

Quinn Library will be a point of pride for the OU-C campus and wider community.

VALUES

EXEMPLARY SERVICE:  The library holds paramount the provision of exemplary service to faculty, students, staff, and community members as they seek information in pursuit of their intellectual goals.

RETENTION:  The library lends significant support to university retention efforts through the empowerment of all of our students by giving them the tools to achieve success through information literacy education.

COLLABORATION:  As a fundamentally co-curricular entity, the library recognizes the synergistic benefits of collaboration with other organizations and university units.

INNOVATION:  The library strives toward the employment of the latest innovations in methods and technologies to best serve our patrons.

ENCOURAGEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT:  The library supports the inherent potential of our region by encouraging the development of social, economic and cultural capital through outreach and civic engagement.

RESPONSIBILITY TO STEWARD:  The library takes on the responsibility to steward both the informational tools of the mind and the intellectual life that employs those tools.

EQUAL ACCESS:  The library supports the development of critical thinking skills through the provision of equal access for all library stakeholders to information from divergent points of view.

ASSESSMENT:  The library recognizes the necessity of assessment as a critical component of all initiatives