Mission Statement

The mission of the Daniel Boone Regional Library is to provide access to informational and cultural materials and resources while providing excellent customer service and promoting lifelong learning for all the citizens of the community it serves.

Roles of the Library

Popular Materials Library: Timely, high- interest materials are available in a variety of formats for all ages. Programs, readers’ advisory services, displays, and exhibits actively promote library materials and services.

Reference and Information Library: Current, accurate and useful information is available in a variety of formats for all ages. Staff navigates the library user to resources through assistance and instruction.

Children’s Door to Learning: Children of all ages are challenged and encouraged to become readers and lifelong learners. Staff provides guidance for using age appropriate collections and programming.

Values

Connection of people to ideas.
We guide the seeker in defining and refining the search; we foster intellectual inquiry; we nurture communication in all forms and formats.

Excellence in professional service to our communities.
Our commitment requires integrity, competence, personal growth, effective stewardship, and service to our discipline as well as to our public.

Formation of partnerships to advance these values.
We believe in the interdependence of libraries and librarians and advocate collaboration in all areas and between all types of libraries, knowing that collections and services evolve successfully through such collaboration.

Assurance of equitable access to recorded knowledge, information and creative works.
We recognize access to ideas across time and across cultures is fundamental to society and to civilization.

Commitment to literacy and learning.
We aid people to become independent lifelong learners by selecting and offering materials that support the differing needs of all learners and that entertain and delight the human spirit.

Respect for the individuality and the diversity of all people.
We honor each request without bias, and we meet it with the fullness of tools at our command. We respect that individual’s need for privacy, confidentiality, and the right of access to library and information services and resources regardless of race, creed, national origin, age, ability, gender, or sexual orientation.

Freedom for all people to form, hold, and to express their own beliefs.
All people have the right to seek, to know, and to find.

Preservation of the human record.
The cultural memory of humankind and its many families, its stories, its expertise, its history and its evolved wisdom must be preserved so it may illuminate the present and make the future possible.

This core values statement was developed by the American Library Association Core Values Task Force in 2000.