Goal and Objectives

Goal

  • Maintain a college library resource collection that is accessible both on and off campus, to facilitate access to off-campus collections and to provide necessary services to meet the academic, professional and personal information needs of the college's students and employees.

Objectives

  • Students and employees will have access to the library resource collections that meet their academic, professional and personal needs.
  • Students and employees will be able to access online, digital and print collections of instructional and research materials, both on and off campus.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate their ability to access, critique and utilize research material from various library resource collections.

Outcomes Indicators

  • Satisfaction of students and employees with the adequacy of the college's resource collections in meeting their needs and the needs of the college's curricula.
  • Usage records of online databases by students and employees.
  • Number of students and employees who obtain library cards at Salisbury University and University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
  • Number of students using computers in on-campus media and resource centers.
  • Student and employee satisfaction with the accessibility of online databases and with the computers in the media and resource centers.
  • Student attainment of information literacy skills.
  • Performance of students, by curriculum, on information literacy course assignments.