Our Mission

Our Mission

We envision a world where abundant, enduring, equitable, and meaningful access to information about typography serves to empower and inspire human communication.

Our Vision

We aspire to advance knowledge and the creative professions by providing a trusted foundation for the dissemination, use, engagement with, and preservation of information, so that it can be brought to bear on the world’s great communication challenges.

Our Values

How we pursue our mission is as important as the mission itself. We support the core values of the profession of librarianship. Our values ground both our strategic decisions and our operational approach: we aim to do great things, and to find joy and meaning in our work.

• We foster lifelong learning and openness among our staff, our colleagues, and the communities we serve.
• We act with integrity to buttress liberty and democracy by protecting intellectual freedom and the right to privacy.
• We aim to conduct ourselves with transparency and authenticity in all aspects of our work and organization.
• We aim to work with others to identify collaborative solutions to community-wide challenges.
• We aspire to promote rigorous scholarship and many diverse ways of knowing and creating to advance human understanding and well being.