Youth Services Calendar of Events

Monroe Public Library

Holidays

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

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Suzann Holland, 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