As teachers and learners working across disciplines and in our library communities, we meet students, researchers, staff, and faculty wherever they are in their learning process. We depend on mutual collaboration and communication to support learners in growing as critical thinkers, makers, and doers.
We promote digital autonomy and agency.
We teach critical literacies that empower learners to evaluate, take ownership, and exercise control in the choices they have in their use of digital technologies. As educators, we prioritize values of open scholarship — including open software and infrastructure, intellectual freedom, and privacy.
We examine power structures that impact our work.
We strive to make use of technology and data in ways that minimize harm and support human flourishing. We oppose racist and oppressive structures in education and digital technology, and we support environmentally sustainable technological infrastructures. We encourage learners to think of all digital scholarship and data collection as thoroughly human endeavors, and to critically reflect on how human experiences are represented and engaged in their tools, methods, data, and projects.
We foster a culture of care, experimentation, and creativity.
We create and sustain space for researchers to build scholarship and infrastructures intentionally, and to understand how to maintain their projects into the future. We believe there is no one best way for our patrons to meet their goals, and we embrace the multitude of pathways that may exist.