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Library Mission Statement

The mission of The Urbana Free Library is:

• To select, acquire, organize, and promote the use of a wide range of books and other communications media in order to meet the informational, educational, and recreational needs of the citizens within its taxing jurisdiction.
  
  
• To provide the physical space necessary for citizens to consult library materials in comfort and to meet with one another as part of the Urbana community.
  
  
• To provide unusually friendly and personal service to all Library users.

In establishing this general mission statement, the library recognizes that public libraries are institutions with multiple goals, providing a wide range of services to a wide range of individuals; that no simple mission statement can encompass the entire range of appropriate library activities; and that the evaluation of the relative merit of library activities is a complex process that will of necessity involve the continued attention of the Board of Trustees and the library staff.