Our Mission & Strategic Goals
Primary Objective
Suffern Free Library, at the heart of our community, shall provide resources, services and programs to support learning and enhance discovery so that all succeed. We strive to provide a welcoming environment that values and respects every individual while also honoring inclusivity.
Our Goals
1. Reimagine
Reimagine Suffern Free Library to meet evolving community needs and improve its ability to identify and respond to changes in the world.
2. Develop
Develop and promote new service models that reach and excite people about the library.
3. Create
Create a secure financial future for the Suffern Free Library.
4. Implement
Implement a renewed program of convenient, responsive, customer-focused library service.
New Projects for 2024-2025
There have been many updates and changes in the Library in the past couple of years, and much more is yet to come. Here is a letter from the Library Director, Darlene Alessi, updating you as to what to expect in the near future.
- New Book and Media Area have been painted
- Tonieboxes and Tonies have been introduced for lending
- New carpets have been installed in the lower level
- Suffern Room and Large Meeting Room have been painted
- Overnight Pickup Lockers
- New Library Catalog and New Internal Library Software for checkout
- Self-Checkout system with RFID technology
- Introduced new materials for lending such as mobile hotspots, hiking bags, crochet and knitting kits