MISSION

Librarianship is grounded in change agency toward empowerment of others and fostering progressive, innovative, respectful, and collegial professional library and community relationships.

VISION

Guiding statements of my current and future objectives aligned with Mission and Goals:

• To create a better everyday discovery and learning experience for many people bringing inspiration and innovation to the community.
• To foster and support an inclusive, diverse, empathetic, and accepting world.

GOALS

• Being a champion for the Library as it builds and engages communities as a place of possibilities, diversity and inclusion
• Galvanizing staff to continue transforming the Library to meet the changing needs of the community and local businesses
• Supporting the Board in its governance and strategic planning; lead and inspire staff to bring the Library’s values to life
• Delivering an inspiring information environment for the digital age
• Providing agile service that reflects the changing library, educational, and technological environment
• Researching and embracing innovation, technologies, and methodologies that inform information literacy and instruction
• Continuously cultivating and fostering a strong professional community of practice within my profession
• Supporting and demonstrating respectful and ethical conduct
• Providing responsive, knowledge and reliable service to my community, constituents, and colleagues.
• Delivering an inspiring discovery environment for the digital age.
• Providing an active service that reflects the changing library, educational, and technological environment.
• Researching innovation, technologies, and methodologies that inform information literacy and instruction.
• Continually cultivating and fostering a strong professional community of practice within my profession.
• Supporting and demonstrating respectful and ethical conduct.
• Engaging with library users within a supportive, information-rich, inclusive, active-learning, and ever-changing information-sharing environment.
• Planning and executing educational and information-rich programs providing exemplary library and information services, exceeding all expectations.
• Building an engaging library practice based on learning theory, evolving to meet a wide variety of information needs, and grounded in high-quality customer service practices inspiring library users to enact critical thinking strategies.
• Embracing new technologies and social networks, offering learning and information-sharing opportunities to engage with those technologies