Weber County Library

Excellence is never achieved by accident. It is always the result of vision, integrity, planning, and hard work. Excellence is the goal of everything we do at Weber County Library where every day our greatest resource, our people, dedicate themselves to making incremental improvements in pursuit of monumental results. During the course of our 150-year history, library people – board members, friends, employees, and community members – have earned national recognition for our willingness to take risks and power through adversity to help build our world-class community. We thrive on leveraging the opportunities found in chaos and we love to serve. As you visit Weber County’s third place libraries, envisioned by a new generation of community builders and fueled by a second vote of the people, you will find individuals of every description, hailing from every station in life, joining together to attend classes, participate in programs, and enjoy unfettered access to educational resources of every description. You will find a diverse, highly educated and skilled staff that comes from throughout the North American continent and beyond. You will see community gathering spaces where everyone is welcome to engage in teaching as well as learning. You will also find prominently displayed a symbol of this Library System’s commitment to all the people. This symbol, a silhouette of a powerful fist clenching a flower, is our way of signifying that this institution is committed to Radical Civility. Radical Civility is a public service philosophy that is not based upon a narrow set of proscribed values, but rather on universal ethical principles that demand all people be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. In these community spaces, your public libraries, we will make good on the commitment that people will be judged by “the content of their heart, not by the color of their skin,” or by any other distinguishable characteristic. Radical Civility is what you may expect to see us model, and it is what we expect to see from others.