Wyndham Robertson Library Mission

Mission: The Wyndham Robertson Library fosters student success at Hollins University and beyond by facilitating our community’s critical engagement with the world’s complex information environments. Guided by our fundamental commitments, we strive to educate, connect, and build a community strengthened through academic freedom and equitable support and access.

Fundamental Commitments

As educators of undergraduate and graduate students, we actively collaborate in teaching and learning across campus, encouraging critical engagement with the discovery and use of information.

As champions of reading, information literacy and lifelong learning, we advocate for the development of students’ critical thinking abilities within the academic curriculum.

As defenders of academic freedom, we reject censorship and the abridgement of free expression, and safeguard the privacy and confidentiality of library users.

As facilitators of inquiry and exploration that help develop the scholarship and creative work by the Hollins community, we collect, support, organize, and enrich a valuable and diverse set of resources that match Hollins’ broad liberal arts curriculum, connecting our community to those resources.

As mentors, we provide student employees and interns with transferable skills and opportunities to explore their interests and passions in a supportive setting.

As caretakers of Hollins’ legacy, we acquire, preserve, and make accessible valuable historical materials with the goal of increasing knowledge, openness, and transparency in a collaborative environment.

As user-oriented service providers, we engage in dialogue with our community to develop personalized and responsive services that meet the needs of the campus.

As professionals committed to a welcoming environment where all members of our community feel like they belong, we will strive for equity, diversity and inclusion through every aspect of our resources and services. This includes accessible spaces, diverse collections, and responsive policies and programming.

As innovators, we continually seek to enrich the HU community through rethinking and redefining how the library can contribute to the success of the university.

As the intellectual hub of campus, we provide spaces and programming to encourage reflection, exploration and engagement, and also celebrate the scholarship and creative work done by our community.

As a learning community, we are committed to professional growth to ensure the ongoing development of current and emerging services and resources.

*Our sincere gratitude to the Smith College Libraries, whose fundamental commitments (available at http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/about/vision) inspired us. We also thank them for permitting us to borrow phrases and ideas from their commitments where appropriate.