About Hedberg Library • Library & Information Services • Carthage College

Inside Hedberg Library

A photo of the interior of Hedberg Library. Hedberg Library is centrally located on the Carthage College campus. The building consists of two levels with elevator access located at the south wall of the library and near the southern entrance of the building. Restrooms are available on the lower level of the library as well as in the lobby near the southern entrance of the building on the upper level. There are three black and white printers and one color printer in the upper level, and one black and white printer in the lower level.

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Circulation Desk
DVD/Blu-Ray/CD collection/Nonprint
Information Desk (help@carthage.edu)
Learning Accessibility Services, HL 214
New Books Collection
Newspapers
Printers
Saemann Classroom, HL 217a
Mac Computer Lab, HL 217b
Teaching Commons and Resource Center, HL 223
Testing Center (Learning Accessibility Services), HL 216
Writing Center, HL 213

Conference Room, HL 138
Center for Children’s Literature
Fritsch Classroom, HL 172
General Book Collection
Group Study Rooms, HL 105-109
Individual Study Rooms, HL 110-121
Library and Information Services Administrative Offices
Media Services, HL 166
Niemann Media Theatre, HL 159
Mullen Classroom, HL 170
Periodicals Collection
Staubitz Archives, HL 147

Mission & Values

LIS seeks to work toward the realization of the Carthage College Mission. Read the Carthage College Mission Statement

VISION

To lead the Carthage community in research, discovery, and collaboration.

MISSION

The mission of Hedberg Library is to engage the Carthage Community through research services, collection curation, and active learning. The library strives to provide a supportive and inclusive environment for exploration of ideas; provide equitable access to information resources that support the research pursuits and interests of the Carthage community; and educate the community to effectively identify, evaluate, and use information in ways that promote reflection, creativity, and collaboration.

Adopted in 2018

Library and Information Services provides the information and technology resources and services needed by the College to help people learn and do their work successfully.

PRIMARY GOAL

The overarching goal of LIS is to use the values, knowledge, and skills of its staff to support learning, confidence, achievement, and continued success for students and Carthage employees.

OUR CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Deploy tools, resources, and facilities that support teaching and learning and the activities that support it
Develop knowledge, skills, interest, and motivation, both our own and those of students, faculty and staff, to utilize information resources
Manage data and information and facilitate its use and interpretation to provide useful knowledge
Provide consultation, evaluation, and refinement of the processes that facilitate the College’s mission
Continually evaluate and improve our own operations in light of external trends and institutional priorities

Adopted in 2009 and updated in February 2016