Mission

The Wright Memorial Public Library is a community focal point that helps fulfill patron needs for information and entertainment materials; meets the learning needs of patrons on topics related to work, school, and personal life; and encourages learning and intellectual growth from the earliest ages. The library provides high levels of efficient, friendly, personal service; and fosters an atmosphere of intellectual liberty in the American tradition of free ideas.

Vision

Wright Memorial Public Library has a distinctive role in the community as an institution that fuels the intellect and imagination of people of all ages. Wright Library recognizes that libraries are no longer just physical places containing inventories of books, but have become channels through which knowledge flows to patrons from many sources. The Library strives to serve all patrons, whether on-site or virtual, by providing the resources they seek promptly, completely, accurately, and in a comfortable environment. The Library partners with other organizations to project its reach in the community and strives to expand physical and virtual access to its resources. Wright Library seeks to play an active role in preparing preschoolers to learn, helping students succeed in school, and supporting lifelong learners by providing a broad range of viewpoints, formats, and programs. Wright Memorial Public Library actively works to connect patrons with resources that will enrich their lives.

Service Goals 2008-2011

Stimulate Imagination: Reading, viewing and listening for pleasure.

Library patrons will have materials and programs that excite their imaginations and provide pleasurable reading, viewing and listening experiences.

Help Students Succeed in School: Homework help.

Students will have the resources they need to succeed in school.

Create Young Readers: Early literacy.

Children from birth to age five will have programs and services designed to ensure that they will enter school ready to learn to read, write, and listen.

Satisfy Curiosity: Lifelong learning and life choices.

Patrons will have the resources they need to explore topics of personal interest and continue to learn throughout their lives. Patrons will have the resources they need to identify and analyze risks, benefits, and alternatives before making decisions that affect their lives.

Provide a Comfortable Place to Visit: Physical and virtual spaces.

Patrons will have a safe and welcoming physical place to meet and interact with others or to sit quietly and read and will have open and accessible virtual spaces that support networking.

Connect Patrons to the Online World: Public Internet access.

Patrons will have high-speed access to the digital world with no unnecessary restrictions or fees to ensure that everyone can take advantage of the ever-growing resources and services available through the Internet.