The Cerritos College Library provides instruction, information resources and academic services to support the vocational, curricular and intellectual needs of the entire college community. The Library provides all user groups with instruction and assistance in accessing, evaluating, and organizing information resources in order to meet each individual's information needs and to support the acquisition of information competency. Library resources are selected in coordination with discipline faculty with the primary purpose of supporting the college curriculum.
The Library offers both instructional and non-instructional services. Library faculty develop credit classes and non-credit orientation workshops that align with the Library's student learning outcomes, the Association of College & Research Libraries Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and the information literacy needs articulated by departments or individual discipline faculty members. Library faculty also provide individualized reference service to all Library users. The non-instructional services include acquiring and organizing the Library's resources in response to the curricular, intellectual, and social needs of Cerritos College students and faculty.
The Library supports the college's goals of increasing student engagement, continually improving teaching practices, improving instructional programs and providing support services through a variety of activities undertaken by faculty and staff. These activities include: