About Us

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Founded in 1976, the Highwood Public Library is an innovative and collaborative anchor of the community, providing educational support, information needs, engaging services, and inspirational collections. The Library provides free multicultural and bilingual programs, services, and resources for Highwood and Illinois residents of all ages and ethnicities, including story time, book discussions, summer reading programs for all ages, as well as literacy-focused bilingual programming.

OUR MISSION
The Highwood Library & Community Center is an innovative anchor that enriches, empowers, educates, and embraces the community it serves. The focus is to provide engaging services and programming, community collaboration opportunities, and traditional library resources.

OUR VISION
The vision of the Highwood Public Library and Community Center is to uplift, inform and grow the community through the library’s collections, programming and engagement strategies.

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Our Values

Collaboration

Community

Diversity

Communication

Creativity

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