Mission: Provide leadership in the Library for teaching, research, outreach, and learning services that enhances the University's academic priorities, goals, and aspirations. The Leadership Team plans for the future, builds on one another's strengths, solves problems in a collaborative manner, communicates effectively, and builds bridges between units. Motto: Do Better Together Values: - Commitment to the research and learning needs of faculty, students, and staff
- Open communication
- Integrity
- Creativity
- Collaboration
- Understanding and respect for disciplinary differences
Ground rules for Accountability (established during the July 3, 2012 LDLT retreat): - Decisions
- Collaboration
- Integrity
- Optimize
- Focus
- Optimism
- Stay engaged
- Respect for differences
- Know what we will share with staff
- Clarity to promote local decision-making
- Resolve differences by…
- Consensus and inclusion (vision and process)
- Honor unit discretion
- Delegate, when needed, to resolve
- Seek best for the whole
- Open and transparent
- Share what is needed
- Honor what is decided
In creating the Teaching, Research, Outreach, and Learning Services structure, I tried to reflect the characteristics of Cornell's library system (from large units to smaller, from statutory to endowed, from the sciences to the humanities) as well as develop an administrative team that would foster communication, collaboration, interdisciplinary work, and innovation across all the units. I have discussed this structure with the Library Executive Group, it met with the approval of the Deans, and I was pleased that the library directors supported it as well.
(from Janet McCue, in an email dated June 4, 2009, titled "Organizational structure for Teaching, Research, Outreach & Learning Services") | 
