Monroe Public Library

Holidays

The Monroe Public Library will be closed in observance of the following holidays:

January 1st--New Year's Day
April 10th--Good Friday
May 25th--Memorial Day
July 4th--Independence Day
September 7th--Labor Day
November 26th--Thanksgiving
December 24th--Christmas Eve Day
December 25th--Christmas Day
Decmeber 31st--New Year's Eve Day

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Micheal Boyce
Eunice Brennan
Cathy Goray
Anita Huffman
Jan Johnson
Phyllis Long, Library Board President
Leslie Nider
Tom Porter, Secretary
Brian Keith , Monroe Board of Education Representative

Barbara Brewer, Library Director, attends Board of Trustees meetings. The Monroe Public Library Board of Trustees meet the third Thursday of every month at 7 p.m. in the Monroe Public Library's first floor meeting room.

MONROE PUBLIC LIBRARY MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of the Monroe Public Library is to enrich the community and the lives of the people it serves by making freely available a selection of materials and services for purposes of education, life enhancement, and acquisition of knowledge.

The roles and values of the Monroe Public Library include the following:

Provide a comfortable and actively inviting community atmosphere for library users and visitors
Provide the people that it serves with timely, accurate, and useful information through its print and audiovisual collections and electronic databases
Provide access to Internet resources
Provide library users with current, high demand, high interest materials in a variety of formats that meet diverse reading and interest levels
Provide reference and information that assists adults, youth and children to pursue their educational, informational and life enhancing objectives, whether through formal course study or independent learning
Provide library displays, programs, publicity, materials selection, technology resources, and an environment that encourages adults, youth, and children to read and learn
Encourage children and their parents and caregivers to read and learn together through displays, exhibits, and program series developed for children and their parents and caregivers
Provide collaborative outreach within the larger community
Uphold the Library Bill of Rights and the Freedom to Read, Freedom to View, and Intellectual Freedom statements adopted by the Monroe Public Library