2023 Community Report - Flipbook - Page 3
About Us
Our Audacious Goal
Our Purpose
Our audacious goal is to be a
transformational force in the
development of Waterloo and
its citizens.
Our purpose is to ful昀椀ll the
multiple literacy needs of our
community.
Our Values
Learning
and
growth
Being
engaged and
responsive to
needs
Free
exchange
of ideas
Right of
everyone
to access
information
Belief in our
customers
Truth, Reconciliation, and Your Library
Waterloo Public Library is located on the Haldimand Tract, land granted to the Haudenosaunee
of the Six Nations of the Grand River. It is situated within the ancestral territory of the Anishnaabe,
Haudenosaunee, and Neutral people who may have called themselves Chonnonton. These 昀椀rst
people cared for the land on which we gather for many generations before European settlement.
As an organization that exists to make public spaces, credible resources and opportunities
for learning available to everyone, the library is active in the work of truth and reconciliation.
Preserving, amplifying and celebrating Indigenous stories is an important part of the work we do.
We commit to the daily work of reconciliation. This means learning and decision-making that
recognizes the ongoing impact of colonialism as well as re昀氀ection, partnership and action that
can make reconciliation possible.
John M. Harper Branch
