NOLS Mission
Nurturing imagination, connection, and understanding, to improve lives and strengthen community.
- Power of knowledge, imagination, and exploration
- Free and equal access
- Intellectual freedom and privacy
- Literacy and learning
- Responsible stewardship
- Transparency and accountability
- Community service
- Partnerships to support community vitality
- Flexibility, nimbleness, and adaptability to social and technological change
- Equity, diversity, and inclusion
- Lend library materials at no direct cost to customers.
- Assist with information and research needs.
- Provide early literacy services and programming.
- Provide access to information technologies.
- Provide meeting space for public interaction.
- Be the hub where community comes together to think, meet, work, play, and create.
- Provide literacy, education, and enrichment opportunities for people of all ages.
- Offer diverse programs, events, and classes, which promote learning, skills acquisition, intellectual and cultural stimulation, civic discourse, community vitality, social engagement, entertainment, relaxation, and creative fun.
- Provide library facilities that are safe, comfortable, functional, and sustainable.
- Deliver library services when, where, and how they are needed.