LIBRARIAN'S DESK

By acquiring materials with subject emphases in accord with the curriculum.

By organizing the collections and providing full bibliographic and physical access to materials.

By developing and maintaining databases and information management systems that provide effective and efficient access to IRC materials and resources of interest to our academic community.

By maintaining the collections as responsible Information Resource Manager using proven storage and retrieval techniques.

By ensuring that facilities are adequate to house and service the collections; that space and environment allow both users and staff to work productively; and that equipment and systems used to carry out the programs of the IRC are equal to the tasks we need to accomplish.

By reviewing and evaluating, on a regular basis, our mission and goals, policies, programs, personnel, equipment, systems, and facilities in order to improve effectiveness in accomplishing our mission in accordance with our quality policies.

By recognizing that our success depends upon human resources and implementing policies, which foster staff development.

By establishing a dialogue with all segments of the academic community, which promotes understanding of IRC policies, programs and needs, and facilitates our awareness of developments, which have implications for the IRC.

By actively planning for the future role of the IRC in the College in light of technical developments in the storage, retrieval and transfer of information and changes in the educational program.