The librarian who provides such guidance plays a major role in the learning process.
University librarians share the professional concerns of faculty members.
Academic freedom, for example, is indispensable to librarians, because they are trustees of knowledge with the responsibility of insuring the availability of information and ideas no matter how controversial, so that teachers may freely teach and students may freely learn. Moreover, as members of the academic community, librarians should have latitude in the exercise of their professional judgment within the library, a share in shaping policy within the institution, and adequate opportunities for professional development and appropriate reward. Libraries is to be central to the University community's discovery, communication, and use of knowledge by providing materials, information, and other services to support instruction, research and scholarship, and public service. Its secondary mission is to serve as a resource for Colorado residents in supplementing individual, business, cultural, educational, governmental, or professional information requirements. A tertiary mission is to share resources with the national and international higher education community.