PASCAL Mission Statement

Mission: 

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 students, faculty and staff at every member institution of higher learning in South Carolina. 

Goals:

• Strengthen the role of the academic library  in order to help higher education meet its mission across South Carolina;
• Provide statewide access to essential  print  and  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.