Mission & Priorities

 

Mission

Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all.

Vision

Libraries thrive so everyone can succeed. 

Values

  • Access
  • Equity
  • Intellectual Freedom and Privacy
  • Public Good
  • Sustainability 

Motto

The best reading, for the largest number, at the least cost.

(Adopted 1892; reinstated by the ALA Council, 1988)

 

 

Also see Key Action Areas of the American Library Association, and the ALA Strategic Plan.