Library Vision
In support of the Milwaukee School of Engineering's mission, principles, and goals - and featuring an inviting, friendly, interesting, service-oriented, customer-responsive environment that encourages the exchange of ideas, intellectual curiosity, learning, and discovery, in addition to quiet study - the Walter Schroeder Library provides resources and services that meet the informational, instructional technology, and audiovisual needs associated with the educational, research, professional, social, and recreational activities of its customers.
Specifically, the library seeks to provide recorded knowledge and information -- or access to recorded knowledge and information -- consistent with present and anticipated documented information needs at MSOE.
At all times, the library works to contribute to the overall mission of MSOE. A total of 19 specific mission statements currently support and define the library's vision. These 19 mission statements may be classified into one of three broad categories:
- The library serves the intellectual and social needs of people.
- The library is a place.
- The library makes available resources and services.
Mission Statements
People
Mission A: To support the mission, principles, and goals of MSOE and to build interdepartmental cooperation and communication.
Mission B: To be customer-driven, customer-responsive, and service-oriented, and to regularly evaluate who are customers are and what they need.
Mission C: To regularily evaluate that customers are changed as a result of contact with the library.
Mission D: To recruit and retain a highly qualified, effective and numerically sufficient staff.
Mission E: To motivate library staff to high levels of achievement, encouraging continuing development and staff enhancement.
Place
Mission F: To house the library’s collections in adequate facilities conducive to the use and preservation of the collections.
Mission G: To provide a well-maintained and safe environment.
Mission H: To provide an inviting, welcoming, interesting, aesthetically-pleasing environment.
Resources/Services
Mission I: To provide bibliographic, physical, and intellectual access in the library and outside of the library to recorded knowledge and information consistent with the teaching, research, educational, professional, social, and recreational activities of the library’s customers.
Mission J: The library serves the informational needs of its customers by providing access to information resources, such as books, journals, videos, databases, etc. In serving the informational needs of our customers, the library will facilitate access to local, national, and international resources, and will make information readily available, recognizing that formats can change or evolve.
Mission K: To serve the instructional technology and audiovisual needs of our customers.
Mission L: To guide our customers in the identification, interpretation, and use of library materials, information, resources, and equipment.
Mission M: To educate our customers in the use of audiovisual equipment and information technology.
Mission N: To ensure the preservation and availability of official records and other materials which document the history of MSOE.
Mission O: To respond to the changing state of knowledge, the curriculum, and the information needs of our customers by evaluating collections, services, and resources necessary for meeting needs, and to implement change as appropriate.
Mission P: To maintain adequate equipment and technology consistent with the mission of the library and the needs of customers.
Mission Q: Acquire materials -- and acquire access to materials -- in appropriate formats and in sufficient quantity, depth, and diversity to support teaching, education, research, and study in the subject areas of the MSOE curriculum, in addition to documented information needs consistent with the professional, social, and recreational activities of the library’s customers.
Mission R: To embrace innovation, new technology, and new practices in order to become an information producer of unique materials and resources online.
Mission S: To promote the library.