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Mission Statement and Objectives

            The library strives to be the central access-to-information center for the college and the community.  The library promotes literacy, building on the tribal oral tradition and history through a combination of services and materials.  Therefore, the library staff are committed to: 

• Support the mission of the college.

• Ensure that LPTC students, faculty, staff, and qualified public library patrons have access to library holdings; 
• Be an active partner in the education process at all levels of lifelong learning;
• Collect items of local history; 
• Encourage free and confidential access to ideas; 
• Promote the joy of reading, story-telling, and reading aloud to children and teens through flexible, age-appropriate programming; 
• Provide informational support for various tribal and community entities and programs;
• Build partnerships to identify and acquire access to library resources in area and regional libraries;
• Provide a collection of print and non-print materials in order to meet the lifelong learning, recreational, and informational reading needs of the students of the college and of the community, from pre-school through senior adults; 
• Enable patrons to have access to information through electronic connection with the world at large (see computer use policy);
• Provide materials with cultural relevancy to the Native and non-Native cultures represented in the community.  The northeast woodland culture group, especially the Ho-Chunk Nation, will be the area of highest priority; 
• Develop and promote an outstanding and comprehensive collection of Native American materials recognized by researchers in the three-state region; and
• Offer services and materials that support local history and oral tradition.