MISSION STATEMENT

The Giles County Public Library's Mission is to provide the best in library services to the citizens of Giles County.  To accomplish this goal the library provides current, high demand, high interest materials in a variety of formats to help community residents obtain information meeting their personal, educational and professional needs.  The library also serves as an educational and cultural center for the independent learning of all residents of the Giles County community.  The library offers both in-library and outreach programming on a monthly basis to the children, adults and senior citizens of Giles County.  These include outreach monthly story telling puppet shows in the Giles County public schools, the county and city HeadStarts, and local independent pre-schools; in-library story telling, dance-a-story, and puppet shows; in-classroom book talks for teens as well as library special events focusing on teen oriented fiction; monthly Tale Telling/oral history evenings for adults in towns throughout the county; an adult weekly library book club; special "meet the author" literary evenings at the library; a monthly senior citizen narrative theater performance designed around periods of history and literature of particular relevance to a senior citizen audience in all Giles County nursing homes, retirement residences and senior centers; a seasonal summer reading program for children and teens; and the library's participation in national grant funded programs such as The National Endowment for the Arts, The Big Read.