Mission & Values
Vision, Mission, and Values
Vision
The library is the intellectual and technological crossroads of information resources, teaching, and learning at UST.
Mission
The library enriches scholarship and teaching by providing information resources, services and instruction that support the curriculum and the intellectual development of St. Thomas students, faculty, and staff.
In support of this mission:
- We teach our users the skills necessary to identify, select, evaluate, and retrieve information
- We provide leadership in the use of information technologies in teaching and learning at the University
- We select, acquire, and provide access to information resources in a variety of formats
- We organize information resources so that they may be easily located by our users
- We circulate and preserve information resources located within the libraries
- We collaborate with others, both on campus and in the library and information professions, to design quality information services and to promote information literacy as an essential lifelong learning skill.
Values
- User-centered services
- Partnership and collaboration
- Excellence
- Personal and professional growth
- Honesty and integrity
- Creativity and innovation
- Responsibility and accountability
- Flexibility
- Engagement in meaningful work
UST Mission
Inspired by Catholic intellectual tradition, the University of St. Thomas educates students to be morally responsible leaders who think critically, act wisely and work skillfully to advance the common good.
