Outreach

Volusia County Public Library’s Mission is to provide citizens and visitors with exceptional library services that facilitate personal growth, economic development, and quality of life in a manner that strengthens community pride while fostering a countywide identity and partnerships.

The library’s Outreach Service strives to achieve this mission by immersing library services within all county communities to:

• Meet community needs beyond traditional library branches.
• Provide equitable service by ensuring that library services are available to all county residents, regardless of geography or means.
• Strengthen relationships between the library and community partners.
• Build awareness of the library’s resources and services.
• Encourage lifelong learning and economic development through the promotion of the library’s research tools, makerspaces, and programming.

The library achieves this by:

• Providing engaging presentations to community groups, schools, civic centers, local chambers of commerce, senior centers, colleges, business institutions, and non-profit organizations. Topics can include library services, community resources, lifelong learning, makerspaces, digital tools, genealogoical or local history talks, and more. To request a library presentation, visit Volusia County Speakers Bureau.
• Hosting library card drives or otherwise participating in community events such as hosting informational tables at malls, festivals, and street fairs, marching in holiday parades, and more.  To book the library to join your community event, visit Hours & Locations | Volusia County Public Library or call 386-248-1745 for more information.
• Inviting local groups, businesses, educational institutes and homeschool families, and citizens for dedicated library tours and curated workshops.  
• Visiting neighborhoods, camps, after-school programs, and community special events using old-fashioned pedal power with the library’s Bicycle Cruiser or with futuristic technology and robotics with the library’s Mobile Technology Lab.  The Cruiser, a traveling book bike, can offer citizens materials to check out, new library cards, fun library swag, and more. The Mobile Technology Lab offers technology lessons and demonstrations on robotics, drones, coding, and more. To book the Library Cruiser or Mobile Technology Lab, visit Hours & Locations | Volusia County Public Library or call 386-248-1745 for more information.
• Offering pop-up library programming such as hosting storytimes or culinary lab demonstrations in public parks, at museums, in daycares, schools, and Headstarts, camps, etc. To book a library program in the community, visit Hours & Locations | Volusia County Public Library or call 386-248-1745 for more information.
• Working with county government and local media to produce PSAs for library programs and services, for special library events, and during times of emergency.
• Actively engaging the community with a dynamic, interactive website and an up-to-date social media presence.