Mission Statement of Henry Buhl Library's Instruction Program
The mission of Henry Buhl Library's instruction program is to empower students to use information and data critically to learn and to create new knowledge in a dynamic information landscape, fostering academic, personal, and professional success. In order to achieve such success, our mission also includes facilitating informed access to library collections and services.
The program utilizes incremental information literacy instruction provided in the general education curriculum, as well as in the majors. Instruction sessions are tailored to the needs of individual courses/faculty, using traditional and electronic formats that are supported by helpful and professional teaching at all times.
Our instruction program mission is aligned with Henry Buhl Library's mission "to promote information literacy for all students and faculty across all areas of study and will subsequently provide, with the assistance of the College administration and staff, the services necessary to support this endeavor," Grove City College's institution-wide objective of "promoting academic development," and ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education.
Students will be able to:
Students will be able to:
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