"Cañada College Library, in concert with students, faculty, staff and the community, cultivates powerful habits of seeking, evaluating and using information. Through the provision of materials, assistance and instruction, the Library encourages a love of inquiry in a supportive atmosphere that emphasizes thoughtful scholarship, intellectual freedom and individual responsibility. Furthermore, we encourage you, our patrons, to "be intoxicated with this world and astonished with the world you imagine. Open your minds, open your hearts, open your lives to all that is waiting to be explored"

(Excerpted from Patricia A. Tyler's Commencement Address, May, 2005).