Douglas County Libraries’ commitment, at the guidance of our citizen-governed board and in keeping with a long tradition of public libraries, is welcoming everyone.
Welcoming everyone requires the library’s staff and leaders to make decisions and sustain practices free from discrimination and our own preferences. Even though we may not always get it right, the library means to be impartial in a world where just about every interest wishes it to take a position. Our public library is unique as one of the only opportunities in our community for people with deeply different moral visions, political beliefs, and faith convictions to respectfully use the same spaces, take advantage of vast resources, and enjoy the same events.
Our library doesn’t advocate or formally celebrate positions or causes. The library offers our community exceptional care, supporting customer freedom and self-determination. We inform customer choice impartially, without interference or improper influence.
I am writing to you on the eve of our nation’s Independence Day. Welcome to the freedom of your public library.
Bob Pasicznyuk
Castle Rock
Executive director, Douglas County Libraries