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Mission Statement

The prime directive of The Park Library (CA 265-271) is to support the School's educational, research, and professional outreach mission. The Park Library's mission is:

  • To select, acquire, catalog, store, and manage materials (current and historic, in print, digital, and multimedia formats) appropriate for journalism and media  instruction and research in a comprehensive, current, accessible, economical, and secure manner.
     
  • To offer suitable space equipped equipped with state-of-the-art technology for the use of these collections and information services.
     
  • To serve as a teaching and research facility for journalism and mass communication students on campus as well as remote locations.
     
  • To promote the School's professional values, ethics, and competencies in the Park Library's collections, exhibits, and services.
     
  • To serve as a model for demonstrating modern news library principles, practices, and state-of-the-art information storage and retrieval resources to journalism educators and librarians, media administrators, editors and reporters, visual communicators, as well as to broadcast journalists, and online reporters.