  {"id":2865,"date":"2015-05-06T19:08:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T02:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/?page_id=2865"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T00:00:05","slug":"mission-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/mission-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Library supports the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/about\/administration\/board\/policies\/b101.html\">College mission<\/a>\u00a0by providing an environment that fosters discovery, critical thinking, creativity, and innovation.<\/p>\n<h4>Goals<\/h4>\n<p>Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Library supports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/strategic-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College&#8217;s goals<\/a> as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Access<\/strong><br \/>\nÄ¢¹½´«Ã½ Library increases access to learning opportunities through partnerships, technology resources, and our learning environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diversity<\/strong><br \/>\nÄ¢¹½´«Ã½ Library recognizes that diversity includes a multitude of differences, and we are committed to providing excellent library and information service to the community in a respectful and unbiased manner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quality Education<\/strong><br \/>\nÄ¢¹½´«Ã½ Library builds a culture of innovation through collaborative instructional partnerships across the curriculum. Using reflective practices, the Library engages in continuous improvement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Success<\/strong><br \/>\nÄ¢¹½´«Ã½ Library delivers innovative, collaborative instruction across the curriculum, fostering critical thinking and academic study. It does this through outstanding teaching, welcoming physical spaces, and an accessible virtual environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Economic, Workforce, and Community Development<\/strong><br \/>\nÄ¢¹½´«Ã½ Library promotes the development of workforce capacity through information literacy instruction, job opportunities for students, and relevant resource collections that support the academic, career, and technical pursuits of our community<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sustainability<\/strong><br \/>\nÄ¢¹½´«Ã½ Library is committed to sustaining the environmental, social, and financial well-being of our community: we practice and model sustainability in our daily work, business decisions, and facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed 07\/05\/2008, 11\/01\/2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMission statement for the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ Library.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":86,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2865","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38853,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2865\/revisions\/38853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}