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Mission

Mission

Cowles Library transforms lives and strengthens communities in a democratic society by equipping students, faculty, and staff with quality information and teaching them to find it adeptly, evaluate it critically, and employ it ethically.

Vision

Cowles Library envisions a future where:

  • The library is recognized as the intellectual “heart of the university.”
  • Scholarly information is freely and easily available, with no roadblocks to access. The scholarly information system serves researchers and students, not for-profit corporations.
  • The electronic and digital collections continue to expand to meet our users’ curricular and research needs, while the physical collection is honed to focus on materials not available electronically, those of specific importance to the University, and the portion of the human record Drake holds as part of the collective collection.