The Maloney Library Core Values are the fundamental principles that guide the library’s policies, practices, and initiatives. The Maloney Library intends to work in consonance with these values in fulfilling its mission.
Maloney Library Core Values
Service
We stand proudly front and center to serve the Fordham Law School Community with energy, generosity, and imagination. We recognize the enduring centrality of the library to the mission of the law school.
Community
We value meaningful and productive working relationships within and outside of the library. We believe in the strength of collaboration and shared ideas.
Access
We promote the ideal of free and open access to legal information to people of all backgrounds, cultures, languages, nationalities and religions.
Evidence/Outcomes
We endeavor to base our decisions on evidence and to judge our success by measuring outcomes.
Balance
We look for balance between our home and work lives and to maintain staff morale.
Purpose
We seek to do work that is meaningful, intellectually stimulating, and that employs our unique skills, talents, and experience.
Progress
We strive to be at the forefront of our profession, to pursue innovation, to welcome change, and to engage in continuous improvement.
Maloney Library Mission Statement
The Maloney Library of Fordham Law School is a center for service in support of the scholarship of the faculty and the education of the students.
Remaining at the forefront of technological change, the library is committed to maintaining access through all media to information that reflects the interdisciplinary and international scope of law today and in the future.
The library is also a center for teaching, and is dedicated to making the law accessible to its global community of patrons, while retaining a sense of place that makes its physical environment an attractive and functional setting.