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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
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