Professional Values: Libraries advance professional values of intellectual freedom, intellectual property rights and values, user privacy and confidentiality, collaboration, and user-centered service.
2.1 The library resists all efforts to censor library resources.
2.2 The library protects each library user’s right to privacy and confidentiality.
2.3 The library respects intellectual property rights and advocates for balance between the interests of information users and those of rights holders through policy and educational programming.
2.4 The library supports academic integrity and deters plagiarism through policy and education.
2.5 The library commits to a user-centered approach and demonstrates the centrality of users in all aspects of service design and delivery in the physical and virtual environments.
2.6 The library engages in collaborations both on campus and across institutional boundaries.
"The Standards include performance indicators, which are intentionally library-centric. Outcomes, however, should be user-centric, preferably focusing on a specific population and articulating specifically what the user is able to do as an outcome of the performance indicator. "
- ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education
Principle 2. Professional Values
Performance Indicator 2.4 The library supports academic integrity and deters plagiarism through policy and education.
Sample Outcome
"Many academic institutions use benchmarks to identify their strengths and weaknesses in comparison to similar institutions. For example, benchmarking can be used to demonstrate whether an institution or its library is funded or staffed at levels comparable to similar institutions in a geographic area, with a similar enrollment, or with other related characteristics."
- ACRL Standards for Libraries in Higher Education
Principle 2: Professional Values
All ACRL Standards information taken from:
Association of College and Research Libraries. (2018). Standards for libraries in higher education.
Retrieved from:
http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/standards/slhe.pdf