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Mission Statement

The Park Library (CA 265-271) supports the School’s basic mission of research and education through its five main goals:

  • To select, acquire, catalog, store, and manage materials (current and historic, in print and digital formats) appropriate for mass communication teaching and research in a comprehensive, current, accessible, economical, secure manner.
     
  • To serve as a teaching and research facility for journalism and mass communication students equipped with state-of-the-art technology and managed by a professional media researcher/instructor.
     
  • To promote the School's professional values, ethics, and competencies in the Park Library's collections, displays, and services.
     
  • To offer suitable space for the use these collections and services.
     
  • To provide attractive, informative displays promoting the values, ethics, opportunities, contributions, issues, and trends in the journalism and mass communication profession.
     
  • 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, newspaper publishers, editors and reporters and photojournalists, as well as to broadcast journalists and online journalists.
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