Our Mission

It is the mission of the Fordham University Libraries to support the schools and programs of the University by:

• Collecting and preserving records of human knowledge and creativity in print, manuscript, electronic, microform, audio, visual and other appropriate formats; Providing access to these records by organizing, cataloging and indexing them;
• Aiding and instructing users of the libraries in a responsive and courteous manner in the retrieval of these records and those held in libraries and databases throughout the world;
• Sharing Fordham's resources with the world community of scholars.