MISSION
STATEMENT
Huntsville Public Library is committed to providing quality library services, materials and facilities for individual enrichment, self-education, culture and recreation.
OUR CORE
VALUES
- Respect for patrons and staff
- Intellectual freedom.
HPL upholds the principles of intellectual freedom--a fundamental right for all Canadians
- Appropriate collections and services to support library roles.
- Equitable access to information
- Building community
HPL blieves in building strong communities and preserving community memory.
- Education and life-long learning
Adopted March 2005.
Everyone in the community--young and old, from all walks of
life--can come to the
Huntsville Public Library to satisfy a wide range of intellectual and
recreational needs. Increasingly, the public library is becoming the one
place to look for information of all kinds, from encyclopedias to online electronic resources.
LIBRARY SERVICES
- 60,000+ books & 100+ magazine& newspaper subscriptions
- Videos, CDs, DVDs, eBooks, Books on Tape & Books on CD
- Access to a wide array of electronic subscription databases
- Microfilm & microfiche readers
- Online Information/Reference service
- Wireless access (WiFi)
- Public access computers for Internet & wordprocessing
- Accessible computer workstations with adaptive technology, thanks to grants from Ontario Trillium Foundation
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