Watertown Public Library

Our Mission Statement:

The Watertown Public Library is a community supported asset which seeks to enrich, enlighten, and entertain the diverse Watertown community.

We accomplish this by providing access to a variety of resources that contribute to life-long learning.

We value the written word as it continues to evolve and give new meaning to our Carnegie heritage whereby our public library can serve as the university of the people.

Our Vision Statement:

The Watertown Public Library will increase the awareness of the many and varied ways it can enrich, enlighten, and entertain the diverse community.

The Library will provide access to the world of information in a comfortable setting by responding to the changing nature of library services through its knowledgeable staff, dedicated volunteers, and vibrant community partnerships.

The old library was closed on June 5, 1907; the new library was opened June 14, 1907, dedicatory exercises and a reception taking place in the afternoon. In the evening a meeting of friends of the library was held in the Turner Opera House, in which Miss L. A. Stearns and Mr. Legier, now librarian of the Chicago Public Library, were the main speakers.

The library has been in charge of the following librarians: Miss Maud R. MacPherson, Miss G. Ackley, Miss E. M. Smith, Miss G. Lutkemeyer, and Miss V. G. Little, the present librarian. The library now contains about seven thousand eight hundred books and has a circulation of nearly forty thousand volumes annually.

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