Library Staff Directory

Mission:
The Clayton State University Library supports the campus community by providing quality instruction, collections, spaces, and services to promote and enhance an environment of life-long learning, student success, and active community engagement.

Our Vision
The Clayton State University Library aspires to be the core of the University’s academic endeavors by investing in partnerships with educational stakeholders and securing equitable access to essential resources.

Our Core Values

• Access – Ensuring equitable access to all library users seeking information resources and services.
• Confidentiality – Protection of user’s privacy by keeping their information, access, and service activities secure.
• Integrity – Promotion of honest, impartial, and ethical practices within all interactions and activities.
• Collaboration – Foster alliances with library stakeholders contributing to academic success.
• Service – Responsibility to deliver inclusive, courteous professional information assistance to support teaching and learning.

Mission:
The University Archives acts as the official archival repository for Clayton State University. The Archives is charged with the responsibility of preserving the documentary and artifactual heritage of the University serving as the collective memory of the institution.

The University Archives:

• Collects, appraises, organizes, describes, preserves, and makes available records of historical, legal, fiscal, and administrative value to the University.
• Collects primary source materials to support student and faculty research interests.
• Documents the teaching, research, community service, administrative functions, and student life.
• Provides a facility for the retention and preservation of such records and collections.
• Provides information services that will assist the operation of the University.
• Promotes knowledge and understanding of the University's origins, goals, and programs.
• Provides useful documentation of the policies, people, aims, achievements, and events of the University.

Mission:
ASSESSMENT - Promote and coordinate library assessment efforts in order to inform library decision-making, support institutional assessment and accreditation efforts, and ensure continual fulfillment of the library’s mission.

MARKETING - Oversee library marketing and communications activities that promote library resources, services, and value and result in positive images of the library and relationships with external groups.

Mission:
It is the mission of the Collection and Resource Management Department to serve the University community by making the Library's physical collections available to students, faculty, and staff in a timely and efficient manner. The Department is responsible for ordering, receiving, cataloging and processing all physical library materials. In addition, the Department maintains the online database that is the primary catalog of the library's holdings, and manages circulation of Library materials, course reserves, GIL Express and Interlibrary Loan. The Department is also responsible for the preservation of the library's physical collections and shares responsibility for the administration of Alma, the Library's cloud-based Library Management System.

Mission:
The Department of Electronic Resources and Services supports the missions of the library and the institution. We ensure that students, faculty, and staff of Clayton State University have quick and seamless access to electronic books, electronic journals, and other electronic formats. We promote the academic success of our students by providing these and other information resources through our website and the campus learning management system.

Mission:
All library staff participate in public services in some form. Each of us spend several hours a week at the reference desk, and our librarians provide instruction and reference consultations. Public Services librarians' primary responsibilities are reference and instruction.