Mission And Goals

Mission Statement

The Kanawha Public Library freely serves the Kanawha community as an information and resource center. We provide services that enrich personal lives, encourage self-education, and promote enlightened citizenship. The materials and programs offered provide for continuing education, entertainment, and information. The library is a cultural center of the community.

Technology Vision Statement

The Kanawha Public Library will implement information technologies to enhance its collections and services, and to assure equitable access for the Kanawha community to information in electronic and digital formats.

General Library Objectives

1. To promote enlightened citizenship and enrich personal lives through guidance and stimulation in communication of ideas.

2. To serve the community as a center of reliable information.

3. To provide a place for inquiring minds to encounter the original, sometimes unorthodox and critical ideas so necessary as correctives and stimulants in a society that depends for its survival on free competition of ideas.

4. To provide opportunity and encouragement for children, young people, men, and women to educate themselves continuously.

5. To seek continually to identify community needs, to provide programs of service to meet these needs and to cooperate with other organizations, agencies, and institutions which can provide programs or services to meet community needs.

6. To provide opportunity for recreation through the use of literature, video recordings, computers, and other formats.

7. To promote and use technology to meet current and future information needs of all members of the community by providing increased access to information resources so that all may continue life-long learning.

Goals from Long Range Plan