Director Phil Roché – LIB 303H	Faculty & Staff
Business Manager Trudy Widup – LIB 302	Library Media Program Director Caitlin Kime
Administrative Assistant Sabrina Forgie – LIB 303A	Website

Mission

Ignite curiosity, inspire learning, and foster personal and professional growth by teaching general and discipline-specific information practices and providing access to a variety of high-quality information resources.

Vision

To champion the exchange of ideas, to elevate continuous learning, and to cultivate interconnected communities.

Learning Outcomes

The Gerald R. Sherratt Library recognizes the need to provide an adaptable learning environment to best prepare students to participate fully and remain competitive in our ever-changing global information society. As such, the Sherratt Library aligns its goals with the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The Library seeks to support our academic community in achieving the Framework’s information literacy goals.

Departments, Programs, & Centers

Department of Library and Information Science

Programs

Minor

• •  School Library (Minor)

Teaching/Education Endorsement (Undergraduate)

• •  Undergraduate Library/Media K-12 Endorsement

Teaching/Education Endorsement (Graduate)

• •  Graduate Library/Media K-12 Endorsement

Additional Focused Coursework

• •  Honors Program

Founding Principles

Library Bill of Rights

The American Library Association affirms the belief that “libraries are forums for information and ideas” via its Library Bill of Rights, a set of policies that support both libraries and library users in the free exchange of knowledge and ideas. Likewise, the Sherratt Library fully espouses and champions these essential principles.

Other Information

Collections

• The main collection of approximately 550,000 items supports the curriculum of the University.
• Nearly 200 electronic-content databases, most of them full-text, are available through the University log-in.
• The T-Bird Textbooks collection contains textbooks for many of the General Education courses.
• The media collection includes DVDs, CDs, audio books on CD, and anatomy models.
• The juvenile collection contains fiction and non-fiction titles supporting education programs.
• The curriculum collection holds textbooks used in K-12 schools.
• Special Collections houses materials that are rare, expensive, or in need of special handling.
• University Archives preserve material documenting the history of SUU.

Services

• Library research assistance is available in-person, by phone, or online through chat services at the Questions Desk Monday through Friday.
• Individual library research consults with subject specialty librarians.
• Interlibrary Loan (ILL) enables access through a network of more than 3,000 libraries to books and journal articles not available at SUU.
• The Copy Shop provides copy machines, printing and production services and office supplies.
• 89 PC and 10 Mac computers provide access to the online library collection and electronic databases and serve as a computer lab.
• Wireless Internet access is available throughout the Library.
• Quiet study space is available throughout the Library, including the Huntsman Reading Room and study rooms for collaborative work. All study rooms have a whiteboard and a computer with either a TV monitor or a projector. Students can book study rooms online or at the Circulation Desk.
• T-Bird Textbooks Collection: Hundreds of print textbooks for more than 160 courses, including over 50 high-enrollment General Education courses with expensive textbooks. Available for two-hour check out within the Library.