LibGuides: Faculty Guide: Mission &amp; Goals

Hugh and Hazel Darling Library Mission Statement

The Hugh and Hazel Darling Library serves the information and research needs of the Hope International University community by providing access to information resources and developing information literacy for lifelong learning.

Information Literacy Standards and Guidelines

Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA) promulgates standards and guidelines to help libraries, academic institutions, and accrediting agencies understand the components of an excellent library.

The goals of library information literacy instruction are to assist students to:

Determine the nature and extent of the information needed
Access needed information effectively and efficiently
Evaluate information and its sources critically and incorporate selected information into his or her knowledge base
Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose
Understand the use of information and access and use information ethically and legally

Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
Includes five Information Literacy standards, related performance indicators and outcomes useful for designing assignments.
Information Literacy Standards for Anthropology and Sociology Students
by the ALA / ACRL / ANSS (Anthropology and Sociology Section) Instruction and Information Literacy Committee Task Force on IL Standards. (January 15, 2008)
Political Science Research Competency Guidelines
Research Competency Guidelines for Literatures in English
These guidelines address the need for a more specific and source-oriented approach to IL within the discipline of English literatures, including a concrete list of research skills. (June 2007)
Information Literacy Standards for Science and Engineering/Technology
Defines and applies IL in disciplines of science, engineering, and technology, building on the Standards for Higher Education.
Information Literacy for Faculty and Administrators
What faculty and administrators should know about information literacy programs, by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).
Guidelines for University Library Services to Undergraduate Students
These guidelines are intended to apply to library services to undergraduate students at university libraries and to be used in conjunction with the ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education (2004)
HIU's IL Toolkit (private for faculty)
Our theoretical toolkit about Information Literacy.
HIU's Public Guide about Information Literacy

The Library’s continuing priorities:

To provide information and resources able to satisfy the needs of the university community by: developing and maintaining collections of resource materials, in various media; and developing and maintaining capabilities for providing resources and information from beyond the collections of the library
To support audiovisual and other media equipment needs of educational programs of the university.
To provide physical facilities appropriate for adequate housing of resource materials, for support offices and workrooms, and for other services provided by the library.
To promote the use of resource materials and services by the university community.
To promote “information competence” in all students, so that as graduates they are skilled in retrieving information for most of their needs, and committed to life-long refinement of their information access skills.
To provide a competent and professional staff, serving the mission of the library and the university.
To provide clear, comprehensive means of access for use of resource collections, promoting quick and easy retrieval of materials.
To provide reference, literature searching, database retrieval, and research services to satisfy the needs of the university community.
To selectively disseminate information from available sources, to teaching faculty and administrators.
To maintain an archival function for the university by collection of appropriate materials, and preservation of selected historical materials.
To enhance the learning environment of the university by providing an atmosphere which stimulates academic pursuits.