Annual report 2000

Mission

The Library's principal mission is to support the teaching, research and community programs of the University by:

• Liaising and planning with the scholarly community to develop collections and services
• Organising and maintaining the collections for effective use
• Providing access to scholarly information in all formats to users wherever they are located
• Participating in cooperative and collaborative activities to improve the range of resources available to scholars and students
• Ensuring long term access to scholarly information resources in all formats by preserving and archiving where appropriate these information resources
• Educating the primary clientele through a variety of information literacy programs to search, retrieve, evaluate and use relevant scholarly information
• Guiding, assisting and solving the problems of clients in connection with the use of relevant information resources
• Making available computer workstations and other equipment and facilities that will facilitate access to information resources
• Providing a rich and pleasant learning environment for study and research.

Goals

• Educating Scholars and Professionals
• Applying and Advancing Knowledge
• Excellence in Service
• Optimising Use of All Available Resources
• Encouraging the Development of Innovative, Flexible and Motivated Staff
• Providing a Rich Learning Environment for Users.

Contents

Appendix 1 - Statistics

  Appendix 2 - Staff publications