DEPARTMENTAL OVERVIEW
SURREY PUBLIC LIBRARY
2017-2021 FINANCIAL PLAN
MISSION STATEMENT
We connect people 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.
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 e-mail.
The Library’s website at
www.surreylibraries.caprovides 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.
Entertainment at the City Centre Library
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