Administrative Staff

• Laura Mitchell, City Librarian
• Jo Ann Greenberg, Deputy City Librarian - Information Services
• Cynthia Smith, Deputy City Librarian - Access Services

Mission Statement

To grow, enrich, empower and educate our community through universal access to quality resources, services and programs.

Escondido Public Library's Guiding Principles:

1.      Create Readers:  we introduce children and adults to the joys and rewards of reading and using the public library and meet their need to perform essential daily tasks.

2.      Build Successful Enterprises:  we provide tools and knowledge business owners and managers need to develop and maintain strong, viable organizations.

3.      Connect With Others:  we provide a place and a forum for people to communicate and interact with others in the pursuit of knowledge and ideas.

4.      Promote Cultural Awareness:  we celebrate our community's cultures and heritage and provide a bridge to a dynamic future.

5.      Satisfy Curiosity and Learn:  we fulfill residents' appetite for information about popular cultural and social trends and their desire for satisfying recreational experiences and life-long learning.

6.      Make Informed Decisions:  we meet the need for information and answers to questions on a broad array of topics related to work, school, personal life, business and consumer needs.

7.      Create Information Literacy:  we address the need for skills related finding, evaluating, and using print, media and computer information effectively.

8.      Discover Our Heritage:  we address the desire of residents to know and better understand personal or community heritage.