To engage the community and to educate and empower users with information.

Empower faculty and students to find, evaluate, and effectively use information and to deliver and preserve quality content/information.

The University Library catalyzes the UCSC community to meet its mission by empowering and engaging users in the educational process.

The University Library engages faculty and students in the development of the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to become empowered and informed members of the campus community and beyond.

The University Library fulfills its mission by:

• engaging with the University Community to inform and deliver our services and resources at the point of need
• empowering our user community to discover existing resources and create innovative content that catalyzes the educational experience for the University Community and beyond

Q: Why does the University Library exist?

A: To support students and faculty in all stages of the research and discovery process

The library engages and empowers the University Community by supporting the discovery of information, and by supporting the mission of education, research, and service.

The University Library is entrusted with educating and engaging its patrons in the discovery of information resources while organizing, securing, and preserving its collections.

To empower faculty and students to learn research and service (can't read word) through discovery and creation of information.

The University Library strives to educate and empower its community of users to discover, create and innovate in their research and learning.

Empowers students, faculty, and staff to find, use, share, and preserve information that supports their teaching. learning, research, and scholarship.

The University Library is a full partner in the academic mission of the University of California. We discover, evaluate, organize and preserve information for the benefit of our faculty and students. We work with other libraries in the University of California to leverage our resources and bring a richer universe of scholarly information to the campus community. We push the Library beyond its physical boundaries to serve our constituency in the dormitory, office, classroom, and laboratory. We educate students to become discerning consumers of information who turn hard earned knowledge into outstanding scholarship. We collaborate with our faculty to develop and deploy innovative tools, services and collections that enhance collaboration, resource sharing and creative expression.

UCSD's mission as an example:

Mission Statement The mission of the UCSD Libraries is to be leaders in providing and promoting information resources and services to the UCSD community when, where, and how users want them.  (from their mission statement and Strategic Plan for 2006-2008.