The Partnership Among South Carolina Academic Libraries provides timely
and universal access to information resources and library services - through creative
use of technology, central licensing, and collaborative action - in order to support a highly productive knowledge
environment for every student and
faculty member at every institution of higher learning in South Carolina.
Goals:
Strengthen the role of the academic libraryin order to help higher education meet
its mission across South
Carolina;
Provide statewide access to
essential printand electronic information resources;
Enhance research and teaching collections and extend access to these
collections through collaborative collection management and electronic
delivery services;
Preserve research, scholarly and archival materials at South Carolina's
institutions of higher learning through innovative use of technology;
Maintain support for integrated library systems operations (for
participating libraries) and generally foster library technology
development and deployment;
Nurture relationships with key partners;
Achieve and maintain long
term fiscal sustainability.
