About Us

Welcome to the Caney City Library!

Our Mission, Vision, and Core Values:

Our Mission: The Caney City Library is a strong community partner providing programs and services that bring people together, foster creativity, and encourage lifelong learning.
We preserve our storied past, enrich present lives, and prepare for an ever-changing future.

Our Vision: To be the welcoming heart of our community where all come to explore, imagine, create and connect.

Our Core Values:
The Caney City Library will guide accomplishment of our Mission and Vision by:

1. Being a warm and welcoming place for community members to gather.
2. Being good stewards of the Caney City Library’s financial and material resources.
3. Ensuring ready, equal, and equitable access to library materials.
4. Protecting confidentiality of library patron records.
5. Championing everyone’s right to intellectual freedom.

We believe that reading improves lives.
We believe that literacy and the ability to learn are basic tools of economic opportunity and personal success.
We respect our patrons as individuals and benefit from the diversity of cultures they represent.
We support the wide range of the public’s reading and research interests as a reflection of that diversity.
We believe that the freedom to read whatever one chooses is a right as profound as free speech.
We protect the privacy of a person’s use of the library as a sacred trust.
We strive for equity of access to library services across the entire community.
We embrace electronic information sources as new tools for extending the library’s usefulness.
We celebrate our accomplishments, learn from our mistakes and take pride in serving our community.

Board of Trustees

Library Staff