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DEPARTMENTAL OVERVIEW SURREY PUBLIC LIBRARY

MISSION STATEMENT We open doors to lifelong learning, information and ideas.

KEY PROGRAMS & SERVICES Surrey Libraries has nine branches, located in the six town centres of City Centre, Guildford, Fleetwood, Newton, Cloverdale and South Surrey, as well as in Strawberry Hill, Ocean Park and Port Kells. The Library collects and loans a wide variety of materials in print, audiovisual and electronic formats. Our READ-Ability home delivery service utilizes volunteers to take reading materials to people who cannot visit a library.

Winners of the 2015 annual Young Adult Writing Contest

Information Services staff help customers with our collections, online databases, eBooks and eAudio, internet sites and other information. Customers can ask questions in person, by telephone, or email. The Library’s website at www.surreylibraries.ca provides links to community organizations in Surrey and to useful sites on the internet. The Library offers a wide variety of programs that support literacy, including story times for children, job finding and career workshops, reading clubs for children and teens, computer literacy classes, services for new Canadians and support for customers with print disabilities. The Library is a member of the Public Library InterLINK, a federation of 18 library systems in the Lower Mainland that allows citizens to borrow directly from all partner libraries and to return materials at their home library branch. The BC OneCard program allows Surrey residents to borrow materials directly from other participating BC public libraries when they are travelling.

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