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The PACSCL Mission/Vision
Statement
Adopted by the Board of Directors December 2003
Mission
The Philadelphia
Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) encourages
diverse audiences to explore and engage with member libraries' uniquely
rich holdings and, through collaboration, strengthens these collections
and the institutions that preserve them.
Vision
PACSCL is the
most extensive and diverse collaboration among a region's libraries
and archives in the United States. Its collections, in their depth
and variety, comprise an internationally important body of unique
and rare materials for students, scholars, and life-long learners
of every background.
As stewards
of this documentary heritage, PACSCL members seek to share their
resources with the broadest possible array of audiences. Our vision
for PACSCL embraces the following:
- The Philadelphia
area generally and PACSCL in particular will be known internationally
as one of the nation's preeminent centers of rare books, manuscripts,
photographs, prints, architectural drawings, and works of art
on paper.
- Every
potential user worldwide will have access to records for all
materials in the collections of PACSCL libraries via web-mounted
catalog records or encoded finding aids. These records will include
or link to digital images of books, manuscripts, graphics, or
other objects where appropriate, giving users intensive, selective
access to collections from outside.
- The Greater
Philadelphia educational establishment will rely on PACSCL
for resources and programs for curricula and curricular supports
for students from early childhood through postdoctoral education
and for life-long learners.
- Tourists
and the tourism professionals who serve them will look to
PACSCL and its members to showcase and illuminate the historical
and cultural riches of the Philadelphia area. PACSCL will become
the partner of choice for the information to shape the creation
of specialty tours and information campaigns to increase cultural
travel to the Philadelphia area.
- PACSCL
will gain growing recognition for providing a national model
for regional collaboration among special collections libraries,
including utilization of technology in program delivery.
- PACSCL
members' staffs at all levels
will build and share in a rich community of common interests and
involvements, will have collective access to the highest level
of professional training in their disciplines, and also will become
inspired and informed about the collections, resources, and available
expertise at member libraries.
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