Vision

To bring individuals and information together.   

Mission

Public Services and Assessment's mission is to provide the Cornell community services and tools that ensure timely and meaningful access to authoritative resources at the point and place of need.

Values for Users

The primary focus of PSA is on users, and its goal is to provide high quality content, expanded access, responsive services, and learning opportunities.

PSA actively promotes information literacy (research and evaluation skills) for our users.

PSA supports and facilitates user self-reliance.

PSA seeks to be a full partner in the educational and research process, anticipating and adopting to technological  advances and changing behaviors in research, teaching, learning, and information seeking.

Values for Staff

PSA staff collaborates with all of CUL and the University, with institutions and organizations beyond the University, and affirms the Library's mission.

Staff are encouraged to experiment and innovate.

Staff and administration promote our services effectively to users.

PSA works to ensure that the Library's collections continue to keep pace with the demands of research and are maintained in usable condition for future users.

Values for Administration

PSA administration maintains flexibility in programs, staffing, space, collaborations, and administrative structure.  

PSA encourages staff to develop new competencies and apply them to the tasks at hand.

PSA involves all staff, as appropriate, in analyzing tasks and investigating alternative ways of doing things.

PSA ensures that staff are well informed about the nature and progress of change and that they have opportunities to make their views known.