Our Mission

The Library’s mission is to support and enhance the college curriculum, to play an integral role in academic life at Cornish College of the Arts and to do so in a manner that promotes information literacy and encourages lifelong learning.

To fulfill this mission the Library and its staff are committed to pursuing the following goals:

To acquire, care for, and provide access to a thoughtfully chosen and well-organized array of resources that supports the curriculum and stimulates intellectual curiosity.
To provide professional and responsive reference services for the college community: to find out what people need and help them get it.
To provide library instruction which offers essential research skills that will help each person achieve their creative and academic goals and improve their personal information literacy.
To effectively promote library resources and services to the Cornish community.
To provide a physical environment that is conducive to: easy retrieval of materials; research; study and reflection; the interaction of people and ideas.
To provide a physical environment that preserves and protects the materials in the collection.
To ensure that technology systems in the Library are accessible, state-of-the-art, functional, and well integrated with other campus systems as necessary.
To maintain a skilled and up-to-date staff through ongoing professional development.