To set, maintain, monitor and promote standards
of excellence in the creation, management, exploitation and sharing of information and
knowledge resources.
To support the principle of
equality of access to information, ideas and works of the imagination which it affirms is
fundamental to a thriving economy, democracy, culture and civilisation.
To enable its members
to achieve and maintain the highest professional standards in all aspects of delivering an
information service, both for the professional, and the public good.
