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Monroe Public Library
General Information Brochure
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
- Michael 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 first 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
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