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Mission, Goals and Objectives
Mission, Goals, and Objectives
Mission Statement
The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro collects, preserves, and makes accessible unique and historical materials for learning and research. The department promotes the use of these materials by the University’s academic community, scholars, and the public. Its goal is to advance scholarship and to further the educational and service missions of the University.
The ten curatorial areas are: rare books; cello music; manuscripts; children’s literature collections; university archives; women’s literature collections; photographs, prints, and poster collections; book art and book bindings; artifacts and textiles collections; and the women veterans historical project
Goals
- Serve as the official repository of the records and history of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
- Provide the University faculty and students, as well as the general public with unique manuscripts and rare books for research and learning.
- Promote the digitization of collections to increase use and enhance access.
- Collaborate and communicate with all University Libraries’ units to ensure that resources and services are accessible to users.
- Provide timely and authoritative reference and instructional services for those using the resources of Special Collections and University Archives.
- Connect with University faculty and students to integrate Special Collections and University Archives into curriculum development and student life.
Objectives for the 2012/2013 Academic Year
- Revise the department’s collection development policy to identify collection
strengths and assess new collecting opportunities.
- Promote collections and collection development through enhanced community
outreach in Greensboro and the Triad.
- Increase faculty use of the department’s instructional services, consultative services,
and collections.
- Incorporate assessment in the areas of instruction, research, and exhibits.
- Expand the department’s records management initiative through outreach to
University academic departments, units, faculty, and student organizations.
- Craft policies and adopt tools to collect and preserve born digital records.
- Process and catalog hidden collections and employ MPLP when appropriate.
- Define the mission and scope of the department’s Oral History collections.
- Complete the digitization projects approved for the 2012/2013 academic year.