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WHAT WE DO: CORE SERVICES

The Southlake Public Library provides access to high-demand materials, educational
programs for all ages, volunteer opportunities, and community meeting spaces. The Library
serves as a center for literacy, lifelong learning, and civic engagement, welcoming more
than 120,000 visitors annually. City Department Overview

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01 Collection Development 02 Programs & Events
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The Library curates and maintains a high-demand collection Delivers educational programs for all ages, including
of approximately 45,700 physical and digital materials children’s story-time and early literacy, teen programming,
aligned with community interests and usage trends. More adult learning, author events, and summer reading. More
than 420,000 materials circulated in FY 2025, and each than 37,000 attendees participated in library programs in
item in the collection circulates approximately eight times FY 2025, with an average of 68 attendees per program (1.5x
annually, significantly above typical industry benchmarks the peer average). These programs support literacy, student
and a strong indicator of effective collection management enrichment, lifelong learning, and community connection.
and community demand.

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03 Youth Services 04 Study & Meeting Rooms
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Youth Services supports early literacy, educational The Library provides meeting rooms and study spaces for
development, and positive youth engagement through tutoring, remote work, collaboration, research, and small-
story-time programs, homework support resources, STEM group learning. Demand for these spaces continues to
activities, and teen volunteer opportunities. Programs align grow and regularly exceeds the facility’s current capacity,
closely with the educational mission of school readiness and reflecting the Library’s evolving role as a community
student success. learning and gathering destination with over 5,000 people
using the rooms in FY 2025.

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05 Volunteer Program 06 Community Partnerships

The Library’s volunteer program engages more than 325 The Library collaborates with schools, nonprofit
individual volunteers who contributed over 4,500 service organizations, community groups, and regional partners
hours in FY 2025. Volunteers support daily operations, to enhance programs and services. In FY 2025, the
programs, and special events while creating meaningful department received more than $9,000 in donations and
civic engagement opportunities for both teens and sponsorships, along with a $2,500 materials grant, helping
adults. The teen volunteer program supports service hour supplement programming and collection development
requirements and leadership development as well as efforts.
provides pre-employment skill development opportunities.

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