Specific policies, as outlined on subsequent Web pages, are based on the following LBCC Library principles, goals and outcomes.

Library staff is committed to providing resources, services and an environment that support the mission, goals and curriculum of the college. Library staff ensures that the library is a welcoming learning space on campus by fostering the library as:

• A lively, student-centered space for advancing social interactions and dialogue with all types of learning and the world of information
• A helpful place for students to come to enhance their knowledge with librarians who assist them in finding, locating, and evaluating information resources
• An intellectual center ensuring equitable access to quality, cost-effective resources in a variety of formats, to technology and to services that students need
• A collaborative space for students, faculty and librarians fostering self-sufficiency and lifelong learning in research and academic competencies across the disciplines
• A comfortable campus space for individual and group work as well as for quiet study in a cultural/educational environment

The primary goals of the Library are:

• to support the instructional programs of the college.
• to enable the faculty and administrative staff to keep abreast of developments in their fields of interest.
• to provide access to information which is outside the scope of present instruction.
• to provide access to the public to resources and services.
• to train in information literacy.
• to provide an atmosphere conducive to study and research.
  

The Information Literacy Instruction program outcomes at LBCC state that students will:

• Find information using appropriate research tools and search strategies.
• Evaluate and select information using appropriate criteria.
• Use information appropriately and ethically.
• Use appropriate/current tools and technologies to create, produce and communicate.