| The Library
Practices
We provide free public library service to all individuals in the
"community we were chartered to serve:" The Town of Yorktown
and (by contract) The Lakeland School District area of the Town
of Cortlandt
We provide books and other materials to Adults, Young Adults and
Children to "broaden educational background and experience;
to provide pleasure, to satisfy informational, cultural and recreational
needs; and to develop taste and the enjoyment of reading".
We reach out to non-readers through library services.
We endorse The Library Bill of Rights of the American Library Association
and its Freedom to Read Statement; the Policy on Confidentiality
of Library Records and the Statement on Professional Ethics.
We belong to The Westchester Library System and are chartered by
Education Law of New York State.
We were established in 1920 as the public library of the Town of
Yorktown.
Our budget is appropriated by the Town of Yorktown and is enhanced
by contract with the Town of Cortlandt
Our policies are set and our operations overseen by a five member
Board of Trustees and the Library Director. New Trustees are appointed
by the Town Board (after nomination by the Library Board).
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