Our mission is to bring people, information and ideas together to enrich lives and build community. Our vision for Seattle is a city where imagination and opportunity thrive. Our strategic direction supports our mission and our vision.
The Library’s Strategic Direction is designed to help us achieve positive outcomes and lasting impacts in individual lives and throughout our community, and to ensure we have the right tools, resources and organizational structure to support that work.
Individual Growth
Deliver core Library services to support individual needs. Every patron who comes through our doors can expect to find robust collections, welcoming and comfortable libraries, effective staff assistance, compelling programs, and a wide range of technology resources.
For each individual we serve, we will provide opportunities for individual growth in the following four areas:
Examples of programs for individual growth:
Community Impact
Achieve lasting community impacts. We have focused on these Service Priorities for the last several years and we want to keep it going to ensure we make a difference community-wide in the following five areas:
Examples of programs for community impact:
Institutional Performance
Build the internal infrastructure necessary for the Library's institutional success. This work will provide us the tools and resources needed to make better decisions and more nimbly respond to community concerns. We will focus on the following five business model areas:
Examples of institutional performance: