The central purpose of the Library's Information Commons is to provide informational services which facilitate and enhance the teaching-learning-research enterprise at UNC Charlotte both as it exists and as it develops a more substantive research character.
The Information Commons, in close collaboration with Access and Outreach Services, Library Systems, and other Library units, aspires to provide dynamic, integrative access to appropriate spaces, informational and technological resources, informational and production support services for UNC Charlotte's current and changing student and non-student patrons-undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and community users, whether these patrons are on campus or remote.
The Information Commons, consisting of Instructional, Presentation Support, Reference and Research Data Services, seeks to meet the informational needs of its primary patrons, who are, at once, undergraduates (80+%, 15,000), graduates, and the faculty who teach them.
With an ever-increasing number of graduate students as the University evolves from Doctoral Intensive to Doctoral Extensive in the next decade and grows to a student body of approximately 25,000, the Library and Information Commons must serve traditional undergraduate students, while developing new ways to provide for the needs of growing and evolving graduate and professional research programs.
The Information Commons' substantive relationship with the Faculty Center for Teaching, which is located in the Information Commons, will help the IC and other library units develop resources and support structures as well as expand, update, and evolve these to meet the changing needs of our patrons, especially as they effect the teaching-learning-research enterprise.
