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• Florida Atlantic University Library

• VISION FAU Libraries are committed to being at the forefront of emerging trends in the global library community through: advancing established collaborative relationships; forming new alliances; expanding collections; and increasing awareness of and access to the Libraries’ unique collections, services, and programs for the local, regional, national, and international communities.

  MISSION FAU Libraries promote the academic goals of the University by serving a uniquely diverse community through academic and personal development, discovery, lifelong learning, excellence, and innovation.  The Libraries fulfill their mission by providing access to collections and services, building a rich resource of research materials, promoting a dynamic and multifaceted information literacy program, maintaining a dialogue with the scholarly community, developing creative programming, encouraging public engagement, and forming cultural alliances.

  VALUES FAU Libraries strive for an academic environment that supports the University’s vision, mission and values.  The Libraries are committed to providing resources, a safe environment, and event programming that will promote excellence at all levels of the educational and creative experience of every member of the FAU community.  Create a user-centered library; Provide access to rich collections of research materials; Continually enhance the quality of traditional and virtual collections to meet the needs of researchers; Preserve materials for use by future generations of students and scholars; Provide innovative services for a multi-campus system; Promote information literacy; Build partnerships with the local, regional, national and international communities; Be actively involved with improving the library field through creativity and research; Support the mainstream technology needs of the FAU community; Create a dynamic, inviting, functional, comfortable and safe environment; Increase the visibility of the Libraries collections, services, outreach and professional advancement; Reflect a diverse population and its needs through our staff and services; Support intellectual freedom by representing many viewpoints in our collections; Extend opportunities and programming to the surrounding community for access and evaluation of resources.

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