Learn about your Pierce County Library System.
Your Pierce County Library System offers 19 locations and an online library delivering opportunities for all your needs.
Through the Library’s strategic plan, the Library System strives to:
- Enhance Library Experience: Improve visitor/user experience of accessibility, services and resources.
- Create welcoming and inclusive spaces and services: Create safer spaces and services.
- Emphasize strategic partnerships: Focus on partnerships where working together has lasting and greater impacts.
- Build a sustainable future: Prioritize sustainability and the future of the Library, environment and the community the Library serves.
Our Mission – why we exist: To empower the people of Pierce County by advancing all forms of literacy, championing access to information, creating inclusive and inspired spaces, and enriching lives.
Our Vision – how we see the future: The community of Pierce County thrives on inclusion, curiosity, and connection.
Our Values – what we believe:
Cultural Humility We listen to and learn from each other.
Human Connection We bring people together.
Empowerment We defend intellectual freedom, access, and autonomy.
Transformative Hospitality We value every person.
This is your Library System.
Property taxes are the primary source of funding for the Library System. A Board of Trustees, comprised of Pierce County citizens, oversees the Library System, which belongs to the community it serves. You can trust your Pierce County Library System to invest in sound and sustainable operations.
Serving you since 1946, Pierce County Library System is committed to being true to its communities by listening and responding to what is important to you. Learn more about the Library’s history.
More about your library
Board of Trustees
Meet the Board of Trustees and learn more about their role.
Strategic Plan
Learn more about the work of your Pierce County Library.
Annual Reports
See your investment at work.
Restored Levy 2018
Recap the vote to restore Library System funding.