Mission Statement
The University of New Hampshire Library is committed to meeting the diverse and changing information needs of UNH students, faculty, and staff. Through resource sharing with other institutions and outreach to the public, we fulfill our land grant mission by serving the wider community. The Library collects, creates, organizes, manages, preserves, and provides access to information resources and educates patrons in their effective use. Library faculty and staff, collections, facilities, instruction, and scholarship contribute to UNH achievements in teaching, research, creative expression, and service.
Vision Statement
The University of New Hampshire Library is an essential partner with UNH students, faculty, and staff in fostering an environment conducive to intellectual inquiry, scholarly communication, and creative expression. The Library will be a dynamic organization, adapting to serve the University and the wider community.
Institutional Identification
The University of New Hampshire Library is an academic library in a public land grant university and thus serves the wider community as well as UNH students, faculty, and staff. Our commitment is reflected in our services to the public and in our Government Depository and New Hampshire documents collections. Maximizing limited resources, the Library seeks to maintain a balance between traditional collections and services and emerging technologies. The UNH Library includes the main Dimond Library and the four science and engineering branches: Biological Sciences Library; Chemistry Library; Mathematics, Engineering, and Computer Science Library; Physics Library; and the Library Storage Building.
Core Values
The UNH Library is committed to the following core values:
- The creation, acquisition, preservation and sharing of information and knowledge
- Teaching, learning and scholarship
- Academic and intellectual freedom
- Access to information
- Preservation of collections
- The provision of excellent service
- Flexibility and responsiveness to patrons' needs and expectations
- Confidentiality of patron information
- Adaptability to change
- Commitment to teaching
- The recognition of the importance of all Library personnel
- Respectful, open and imaginative departmental and administrative management
- Continuous professional development
- High morale and satisfaction
- Collegiality
- Interdependency of all Library departments
- The maintenance and enhancement of Library resources
- Best use of the Library's physical spaces
- Appropriate technology to support Library functions
- Responsible budgeting and development practices
- Recruitment and retention of high quality Library personnel
