Mission and Planning
Mission
The Colorado State University Pueblo Library supports the university’s mission by teaching students to identify, evaluate, and utilize information resources; providing collections, spaces, and services in a collaborative academic environment; and encouraging research and intellectual curiosity through campus and community engagement.
Library Values
The following value statements provide the common threads for priority recommendations/activities. The University Library values:
Community: We value our ability to create a space for developing community through the sharing of ideas, learning, and information.
Collaboration: We value collaborations with others to achieve student and community success.
Fair and Equitable Access: We value our role in providing fair and equitable access to information, services, and library collections to all members of our community while ensuring their right to privacy.
Inclusivity: We value the diversity of our community and commit to creating inclusive environments and collections that reflect that diversity.
Intellectual Freedom: We value the freedom to disseminate ideas without restriction in order to contribute to the body of intellectual knowledge and the greater good.
Lifelong Learning: We value our role in promoting lifelong learning in our community by encouraging intellectual curiosity and supporting our patrons’ personal and professional development.
The library's services include:
- Print and online course reserves
- Borrowing materials from other libraries
- Teaching research skills
- Technology tutoring
- Research consultations
- Flexible teaching and learning spaces
- Multimedia workstations
- 3D and Large Format Printing
- Laptops available for checkout
- Printing and photocopying
2025-2026 Action Plan
The three goals in this plan were developed specifically to support our mission and values. While the library faculty and staff are engaged in many activities necessary to run the library on a day to day basis, these goals represent intentional realignment of our time and effort to assist the University in achieving its vision.
Goals
Ensure that students can identify, evaluate, and utilize information resources.
- Enhance librarian engagement with faculty to provide coordinated instruction across the curriculum that ensures students can identify, evaluate, and use information resources.
- Contribute to first- and second-year student retention by increasing the number of those students who receive library research instruction and reference support.
Provide collections, spaces, and services in a collaborative academic environment.
- Expand LINC services by incorporating the Library first floor more fully into LINC operations, cross-training students on both floors, and expanding services.
- Optimize the Library’s physical collections by discarding materials.
- Increase faculty and graduate student knowledge of scholarly communications principles by offering targeted workshops.
Engage campus and community to support intellectual curiosity and research
- Grow and support the annual Aztlán Research Center Summer Institute.
- Publish Library newsletter promoting library collections, spaces, and services and highlighting educational and entertainment events open to the campus and community.
- Launch CCMA podcast: Chicano Legacies.
