Mission
We increase the value of your information.
Vision
We will be internationally recognized and respected as a center of metadata expertise.
Philosophy
Excellence in our services and products is the first priority. We put a premium on quality and efficient service and we will continually strive to improve them.
These guiding principles define the department's operating beliefs, enable each individual to confide in each other as colleagues, and ensure our trustworthiness in external relationships.
- We work in an execution-oriented environment where the success of the department and its individuals is measured by results and the ability to follow through on commitments
- We do not make commitments we cannot keep. When someone requests something we cannot do, we explain that we cannot do it and offer feasible options rather than say yes and then fail.
- We communicate only what we know, and don't pretend to know things which we don't.
- We engage in continual self-evaluation and self-improvement to ensure that we develop both professionally and personally.
- We reinforce each other's discipline, creativity, and sense of the possible in an exciting environment that is characterized by mutual respect and challenging and fulfilling activity.
- We surround ourselves with world-class individuals and partners in order to advance our noble purposes and achieve our aspirations.
- We solve problems and balance standardization with customization.
- We strive to work with systems, infrastructure, metadata, software, and data to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged without special effort on the part of the client or end users.
- Partnerships: Build effective relationships within CUL, across campus, and outside the university with those who agree to share responsibility for achieving established goals.
- Stewardship: Manage our clients' entrusted assets ( i.e. data, digital objects) carefully and responsibly.
- Customer Service: Strengthen our commitment to provide high level metadata products and services.
- Innovation: Provide cutting edge solutions that are effective while maximizing the utility of metadata in all collections.
- Leadership: Contribute our knowledge to our clients' and to the library community through presentations, publications, outreach, and service.
We will provide metadata solutions that:
- Sustainability: meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the client to meet future needs.
- Extensibility: adjust according to changing circumstances.
- Accessibility: are easy to approach and be used by as many people as possible.
- Usability: are fit and ready for use or service by our clients.
- Interoperability: enable disparate computer systems to operate cooperatively.
- Cost consciousness: are high quality products and services at equal or lower cost than our competition.
- Responsibility: make us capable to fully perform and enliven products and services in accordance with the agreement, contract or memorandum of understanding.