Mission and Objectives

 

The Learning Resources Center is committed to support the purpose of Dabney S. Lancaster Community College, which states in part:

 

DSLCC provides an opportunity for the extension of knowledge, skills, and personal enrichment in a forum that maintains high academic standards, is financially and geographically accessible, and respects each student’s rights and responsibilities...

 

Reflecting the diversity of the educational, public and community service goals of the institution, the LRC perceives its particular mission to include the following:

 

To select and acquire as much of recorded knowledge as is consistent with the current and anticipated needs of its users

To design and produce learning materials for its users as is consistent with the limitations of available resources and manpower.

To assist users in mastering the tools of the LRC, and to provide access to needed information located elsewhere.   To collaborate with VCCS institutions to promote standards of Information Literacy as a core competency as defined by The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia

To process and organize the materials acquired according to recognized professional standards.

To make the collection available to users while at the same time to guaranteeing availability of materials to future users.

To cooperate with other organizations for the advancement of scholarship and the effective utilization of resources.

To provide a facility and atmosphere conducive to a variety of individual/small group study needs.

 

Implicit in this mission is embracing professional tools of management, instruction and recognized organization as published by The American Library Association.  Moreover, the institution reaffirms its support of The American Library Association’s The Library Bill of Rights.

 

 

Adopted by the Learning Resources Committee, Nov.11, 1985 
Endorsed, C & I Committee, Feb., 1994

Endorsed, C & I Committee, March, 2003

Endorsed, C & I Committee, Feb., 21, 2006



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