Multnomah County Library System

Adopted 1986. Updated 2004.

The League of Women Voters of East Multnomah County and the League of Women Voters of Portland support a public library system that upholds the principles of intellectual freedom and the public’s right to know.  We support the library as a basic community service with an assured, stable and adequate source of funding that will allow:

• Provision of library resources in keeping with new ideas and technological advances with an easy to use retrieval system;
• Continual acquisition of materials including books, other multimedia items and software in a variety of formats and languages to serve the informational, educational, cultural and recreational needs of all library patrons;
• Continued remote access of library resources through the Internet and other state-of-the-art technology;
• Offering reference materials (print and electronic), and the support to utilize these resources, to meet the needs of science and business patrons as well as the general public;
• Access by all persons to public library services spread throughout the county with adequate hours of service;
• Maintaining the Multnomah County Library Internet website as well as other forms of outreach to places where people live, work, and play, taking into account the multilingual nature of our communities;
• Promoting visibility in the community through The Friends of the Library, The Library Foundation and other groups of volunteers.